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Nearing the end of the first adventure

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On the 21st or 22nd of last month (April), I started a class called "Introduction to Programming." The intention of the class is to teach students the basic structure and logic of programming. This includes things from creating flowcharts and pseudocode to loops and if statements to basic object-oriented programming. I was pretty...
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Onto the main journey! (and a follow-up to the game I've been planning)

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After a particularily stressful rush through the final chapter of Microsoft's "Software Development Fundamentals" textbook, I'm finally to the actual software development branch of the IT classes. The course I've started requires a book called "An Object-Oriented Approach to Programming Logic and Design." The name...
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Confidence restored! Also, on the topic of Microsoft courses.

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A while back, I watched a documentary called "Indie Game: The Movie." The documentary summed up the entirety of what I want to do with my life. I want to be able to influence people's childhoods as games such as Super Mario Brothers and Tetris did for so many. Several months after I had watched it, I had forgotten why I wanted to...
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The hero of the story starts his training and gets discouraged.

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Before I start, I was not saying that I'm any kind of hero or anything along those likes. I was imagining a character from some high-fantasy novel on the "Supernatural Aid" step of the Monomyth and using it as a very loose analogy to my current situation.

I am nearing the end of my core classes at DATC. I've got 'Software...
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All this, just to re-size my partition?

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When I got my new laptop (A Lenovo G780), my plans had been to remove Windows 8 and set up a multi-boot system of Windows 7 and Fedora. Before I get there, though, I'll give a bit of back story.

I had a ton of annoyances with the Start Screen, and the lack of even a registry value that would enable the comfortable Start Menu (such as the one...
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This class is nearly finished.

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I found out two different things during my Web Development Fundamentals class. Firstly, I found that there's a reason why the core classes include hardware, web development, software, and networking. It's so that people who don't know what they want to do will be able to generally figure out. It's also to help people who think...
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Web Development Fundamentals

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I finished my Strata Fundamentals class pretty easily. I got a 65/70 on the certification, but I think I could have done better had I not rushed through the test like I did. Now I'm enrolled in a "Web Development Fundamentals" class. I think I'll have a pretty easy time with this one, but I doubt it will be as easy as Strata...
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On the "Ubuntu Tablet" and an email I sent to Canonical.

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Today, I watched the six minute video about the new "Ubuntu Tablet" that Canonical has been secretly been developing for a while now. While I watched, I remembered a feedback email that I provided several months ago. I became very curious whether or not my email influenced them in any way, because I definitely saw some things that I had...
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Some more things that are irrellivant to you that excite me :D

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I've completed my first class. It was easy enough. I'm in my second class, CompTIA Strata Fundamentals. Easy peesey. That's really not what I'm making this entry about, though. I'm making this entry to say this; I've realized that I'm starting to develop the critical thinking and abstract problem solving skills required...
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Nearly through my first class.

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I've spent the last month in my introduction class. I've gone entirely through Using Information Technology 10th edition, for those of you that care. I knew a lot already, but it was all patchy. The book filled somethings in, and expanded on others. The final chapter was entirely about programming. It was the wind on my embers. I suddenly...

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