Friday, April 13, 2007 8:00 AM by Michael Paladino
I've finished the first chapter in the Training Kit book and it has taken a little longer than I thought. There are some basic programming principals such as boxing/unboxing, type conversions, etc. that I have never really taken the time to think about before. It's all making sense so far, and I'm feeling pretty comfortable with the material.
As far as the books, it appears the Training Kit book is going to be much simpler and less in-depth than the VB 2005 book which seems to be inline with some of the reviews I've read of both books. I do like the way the Training Kit book is broken up into lessons within each chapter with questions at the end. That provides a good way for me to start and end a lesson in one sitting.
So far I've only been able to get about 30 minutes to an hour at a time to spend studying. I'm getting pretty close to my goal of 2 hours of personal time and 2 hours of work time per week. The last couple of weeks I've come into work early on Friday morning to get some good uninterrupted study time, and I'm going to try to keep that up each week.
