Languages and Books

[Josh Coates]

>I have a great technology job and have grown a lot in just a matter of
months.  
>I am thinking of doing some school though, just not full time.  If anybody
has 
>any recommendations for classes in Utah schools I think that would be
great.

not to lay it on too thick or anything, but this is *exactly* what you
*shouldn't* do.

it seems to me that it is an all to common road the people take here - they
don't want to pay their dues by working their butts off in a hard school for
four years, and *then* go get an awesome job and tackle the next stage of
their career.

they want to take a short cut and take a few classes here and there while
working full time - inevitably they end up mediocre results.  i can't
emphasize enough what a bad idea this is.  this *will* stunt your growth -
just suck it up, get through school and don't take short cuts.  focus on one
thing at a time: first education, next career.  one business good business,
two business bad business.  wax on, wax off.  paint the fence. focus.  ya
know? ;-)

anyway, do what you think is best, but i suggest making a long term, focused
investment in yourself rather than 'quick fix' or 'have my cake and eat it
too' solutions.

Josh Coates
www.jcoates.org

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org] On Behalf Of Eric
Jensen
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 3:01 PM
To: Provo Linux Users Group Mailing List
Subject: Re: Languages and Books

Josh Coates wrote:

>>I've been strictly a web scripter with Perl and PHP and I am wanting 
>>to
>>    
>>
>branch out...Anyhoo, recommendations are very appreciated.
>
>this is probably more than you wanted to hear, but i sincerely believe
this:
>  
>
I'm open to all opinions.  I am still young and have options so I will
definately chew on this.  I have a great technology job and have grown a lot
in just a matter of months.  I am thinking of doing some school though, just
not full time.  If anybody has any recommendations for classes in Utah
schools I think that would be great.  I'll definitely be looking into the
things that Levi linked to.  And to answer TJ's question, no I'm not sure I
want C/C++. ;)  I don't honestly even know what is avaliable outside of web
scripting.  So I will be looking into that D language.  Really appreciate
all the thoughts.

Eric
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