Squintz
Senior Member
4 weeks and I am back to school. It has been three years since I have been in school. I am taking online classes at the University of Maryland University College (UMUC). I will be taking Computers and Information Science (CMIS).
I just got my first book for my CMIS 102 class and the book is titled Extended Prelude to Programming: Concepts and Design. If you have ever read the preface to a programmin book then you have read this book in a nut shell. This is basically 400 page preface introducing you to programming with out actually learning any programming. Talk about boring! It should be an easy class for me though since I am one of those people who actually read the preface of all my prgramming books so I have basically read this book 15 times already.
My second class I will be taking is CMIS 141 Intro to programming which should be a little more interesting since its taught using Java Programming which I am familiar with but I am not fluent with the language. Its also taught from a brand new book which means the modern conecpts should be preached. The "Prelude" book was written in 2001 and doesnt even mention the word .net.
The CMIS course will eventually end up teaching me C# which I am happy about. I just hope a BS degree will get me more money in the long run. BTW work is paying for all my classes so if your wondering why I have decided to start taking courses again its not only to benifit my self but because I would be stupid not to spend my billion dollar employers money.
I just got my first book for my CMIS 102 class and the book is titled Extended Prelude to Programming: Concepts and Design. If you have ever read the preface to a programmin book then you have read this book in a nut shell. This is basically 400 page preface introducing you to programming with out actually learning any programming. Talk about boring! It should be an easy class for me though since I am one of those people who actually read the preface of all my prgramming books so I have basically read this book 15 times already.
My second class I will be taking is CMIS 141 Intro to programming which should be a little more interesting since its taught using Java Programming which I am familiar with but I am not fluent with the language. Its also taught from a brand new book which means the modern conecpts should be preached. The "Prelude" book was written in 2001 and doesnt even mention the word .net.
The CMIS course will eventually end up teaching me C# which I am happy about. I just hope a BS degree will get me more money in the long run. BTW work is paying for all my classes so if your wondering why I have decided to start taking courses again its not only to benifit my self but because I would be stupid not to spend my billion dollar employers money.
