{"id":69,"date":"2009-10-05T11:30:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T10:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=69"},"modified":"2013-12-31T15:56:24","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T15:56:24","slug":"computer-programming-at-hing-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2009\/10\/computer-programming-at-hing-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Computer Programming at Hing University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-70\" style=\"margin: 3px;\" title=\"HU-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/HU-logo.jpg\" alt=\"HU-logo\" width=\"240\" height=\"261\" \/>As mentioned in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/2009\/09\/learning-new-things\/\">a previous post a few days ago<\/a>,\u00a0I am not a student and I am not starting a course this academic year, but I do have several friends who are students and are starting courses this year and it appears to have triggered off some sort of jealousy and bitterness about the fact that I\u2019m not starting anything new (not even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/2009\/10\/when-training-is-not-training\/\">an NVQ in going-to-work<\/a>).\u00a0 Although I\u2019m sure that this longing, jealous, self pitying feeling will rapidly evaporate around December or at the latest around Easter once the exams and deadlines start to fall from the sky, I\u2019ve decided to take a different approach and write my own course outline to try and finally get to grips with my programming that I talk so much about learning.<\/p>\n<p>Starting tomorrow is my module in fundamental C++, using the made-available-online <a href=\"http:\/\/newdata.box.sk\/bx\/c\/\">\u201cTeach Yourself C++ in 21 Days\u201d<\/a> which I hope will do roughly what it says on the tin, and in a few weeks time I will also be starting to grapple a little more with Action Script 2.0, although I haven\u2019t found a decent course text for this yet.\u00a0 I\u2019m also taking some secondary modules in Photoshop, something that I\u2019ve been neglecting for far too long, and Game Design Mechanics and Theory (which will be a nice excuse to play some old games whilst playing very close attention to how exactly they work).\u00a0 Also, even though it has no real connection to programming, I might even throw in a little Dutch vocabulary, depending on how ambitious I feel.\u00a0 I always feel guilty when I meet my girlfriend\u2019s family and my Dutch has not improved since the last time I\u2019ve seen them.<\/p>\n<p>I intend to keep a running record on how well this works out for me.\u00a0 I\u2019m fascinated by how I will put time aside to learn something, such as the majority of my law course, but seemingly only if I\u2019ve paid an inordinate amount of money and I have someone with some sort of vague authority suggesting that it might be a good idea to hand something in.\u00a0 If I can manage to 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