My story of moving from teaching to becoming a software engineer. (Second iteration of talk)

My story of moving from teaching to becoming a software engineer. (First iteration of talk)

As a student at Dana College, I graduated with majors in English Secondary Education and History. I was able to meet my math and science requirements through my ACT scores and AP credit, so I didn't take a single math or science class during my undergraduate years. I did take a statistics class for my master's degree, but even that was geared toward education majors and involved more general concepts rather than specific math application...

I started Udacity's Intro to iOS Development with Swift course this past weekend. I can't believe how much I've learned in just a few days. Our last assignment for Lesson 3 is to write a blog post about what we've learned so far. It would take way too long to write it all up, but here are some of the cool things I learned about XCode...

January: I commit to focusing on JavaScript and the FreeCodeCamp program. I even write a blog post about it. February: I get recommendations for Java learning materials and start studying Head First Java. Oh - and I write a blog post about it. March...

It's been exactly one week since Head First Java and Core Java arrived on my doorstep. I finished reading through chapter 5 of Head First Java last night, and this morning I typed up the code for the SimpleDotComGame, compiled it, and played a quick game against the computer...

It's hard to stay focused when there are so many awesome out there to learn. I want to get into Wordpress and build mobile apps for iOS and Android. Swift is especially intriguing... I spent a little time exploring Objective C in a CodeSchool course last year, but I've heard that Swift takes its cues from languages like Python and Ruby that have a simpler and more readable syntax...