I had looked up several resources to learn Powershell on line, and this site is seldom mentioned. This is unfortunate, as this is the one site that I have found to explain Powershell concepts in a clear and straight-forward manner.
When I visit some other sites, I have to wade through paragraphs of unrelated anecdotes, etc. just to get to an understanding of a concept.
This site, and particularly the free eBook that comes with this site, provides a much more clear explanation to many of the concepts that I had been struggling with. So, just wanted to share.
As I am studying computers/programming now, I find myself at a disadvantage over things that are probably trivial to others. I find myself not knowing the basic of things, for example. The stack? The heap? Turing Complete? With all of this stuff that is second nature to others, I had to learn about it from scratch by Google, etc.
I don't know if that was the most efficient usage of my time . So, in a way, I feel that I have missed out on a lot of basics that many take for granted by not having majored in Computer Science and have had to take the "long road" to understanding.
If you can avoid taking the "long road", you might instead have more time to spend on learning far more interesting things.
A couple more comments for if you decide that college is for you and you want to save some money:
Fill out the FAFSA form; There is a lot of Grant money available that people do not know about. You may end up getting part or all of your tuition paid for.
Consider attending a community college for the first two years instead of going to a 4 year college.
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I have two (Seemingly contradicting) comments regarding your question:
One one hand: I would say the most memorable experience I have from college for me had been.. Skipping class and feeding the squirrels. I am not being sarcastic here; This was in fact how I felt. The reason being: I took too long to decide what I wanted to major in and had accumulated too many units towards my Junior year. As a result, I had to pretty much pick a degree.. any degree.. to graduate. So to me, it felt like a big waste of time at that time.
On the other hand: If I were your age and do it all over again, I would have majored in Computer Science (Looking back in retrospect).
To summarize, I am glad I got my Bachelor's degree. But I wish I would have known more back when I was your age; I would have made a wiser decision in terms of what to major in.
I think this is a very positive development. I had been wondering why it's actually taken this long. Very happy to see this now. However, we need to get this out on SmartPhones now. 2014 is too far away.
I have flexible hours.
The company I work for does not micromanage every single minute of one's time. A project is assigned and must be completed within a given amount of time.
This has made all of the difference for me.
Not knocking the 8 to 5 at all. For some people, this is a great schedule. It just never worked out well for me.
I believe it is important to find a schedule that works for you. If you put your mind to it, you can achieve it.
Outstanding. This is how I feel as well.
It seems things are so abstracted away these days, you just need to take it for "face value". I had found myself going to Google and Stackoverflow looking for answers while attempting to learn programming. It was somewhere along those lines where I was honest with myself and said there's no way I'm a programmer - I'm just using other peoples' code and reverse engineering it.
That was the point I decided that there was no sense pretending anymore and got into a different line of work.