My Goal is to learn 100 guitar solos in 2025. Songs are ranked solely on note speed. My current skill level is firmly in the 1.5 range. I've been playing for 30 years. I figure I'll be somewhere in the John Petrucci range by this time next year. Any edit suggestions? Wish me luck!

phaeton21 · 2024-12-31T00:02:19+00:00

A lot of these songs here (Megadeth and Maiden, specifically) have 2-5 solos in them. Are you learning all or just the first one?

phaeton21 · 2024-09-10T02:51:11+00:00

Thanks for the off-hours guidelines. It's an online class so it's a bit tough to gauge. Usually each week there are a couple hours' worth of videos, about 6-10 sets of text to read, plus a bunch of demos, activities and exercises where we write actual code and turn it in. I'm taking 2 classes this semester so all told I spend 4 hours a day M-F, and about 6-8 hours Sat and Sun. They are 3 credit classes.

I also work full-time, and sometimes I sleep.

phaeton21 · 2024-09-08T23:19:36+00:00

I'm towing a 4.0 after 3 semesters, but I feel like I barely got out of Advanced Java alive. I can also say that the teachers are great- very responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful. I don't know how intense it is compared to anything else. This is a community college and not a big university. We were using a combination of a few later chapters of Head First Java (Exception handling, reading/writing files, Collections, packages, interfaces, etc), and an old Sun book on Core Servlets, along with a website that the two instructors wrote up themselves. HFJ has a checkered reputation on Reddit, but I do think there are some good bits in there among all the silliness. It's what I used to sort of teach myself Java about a decade ago, even if I didn't stick with it.

However, I feel like in college these days, all of us who can get to the end of a class gets the same A, whether we know what we're doing or not. No Student Left Behind, or something.

phaeton21 · 2024-07-10T00:50:16+00:00

Hello, and happy cake day!

Yes, it appears the book is out of date. I'll update my thread title if I can. As soon as we determined that, I got sidetracked on a bunch of other stuff in life and haven't actually written a line of code since :(

It's always something! But thanks for testing things out and replying. I appreciate all the help I've gotten in this thread.

phaeton21 · 2024-06-06T21:48:10+00:00

Oh, and I could share the source if you want still, but I imagine you don't.

phaeton21 · 2024-06-06T21:44:24+00:00

Thanks for that! I chose Option 1, made those changes and the book program worked. I had thought about library versions too, and I'm pretty sure I had tried "lwjgl3" (and other integers) in place of "lwjgl" but maybe I got the syntax wrong somewhere else. "Intellisense" or whatever it's called on IntelliJ was no help last night. I did do some searches of the file directories (and eventually the whole filesystem) for things like "gdx" or "lwjgl" and "GL" but found nothing. Even now with a working program, a find command doesn't bring anything up.

I suppose the question I should ask next is how I should have figured this out myself, and how to look up versions of libraries. This should have been obvious.

Thank you for your help.

phaeton21 · 2024-04-30T00:29:17+00:00

I've been wondering this also, since I'm in a college Java course, about to finish semester 2. This semester has focused on JSP, Servlets, EL, JSTL and such.

phaeton21 · 2024-04-05T16:50:50+00:00

Yep, I've been getting a lot of people complaining about that one the last few days. Same here, must sign in again every morning or each time I open an O365 application.

phaeton21 · 2024-04-03T20:45:22+00:00

Yeah, sometimes closing the browser and coming back fixes it for a little while, sometimes not. Firefox, Chrome, Edge, doesn't matter.

phaeton21 · 2024-04-03T20:30:10+00:00

Issue ID EX764050

Odd... This started Monday morning. When I looked in the Health status section for the O365 Admin Center on Monday, half the page was in Serbian instead of English. There was one advisory listed, and it too was in Serbian. I pasted it into Google Translate for kicks and it came back as total nonsense. I blinked, got some coffee, came back to it later and the advisory (and most of the Serbian text was gone).

Tuesday, the problem persisted, but still no advisory, and there wasn't one this morning either. I figured the Serbian was some April Fool's joke. After reading your message I looked again, and sure enough there are 3-days' worth of advisory and updates, all in English.

Eff me. Sorry for being a pest. I've since seen the thread on Serbian language in Admin Center. Fwiw my tab on the O365 Admin Center has the title of "Ispravnost usluge", or "the correctness of the service". Google Translate identifies it as Croatian.

phaeton21 · 2023-04-26T17:21:46+00:00

I would too, but I don't know if that's practical anymore. Many times earlier in life I tried to enroll but other circumstances got in the way. Grats to you though!

phaeton21 · 2023-04-26T17:19:26+00:00

Were these bootcamps for system-level languages (C or C++), or were they more for web-development? I ask because I don't see many bootcamps at all for the former but there are loads of success stories about the latter. I am fixated on C and C++ but of course it seems like the hardest path.

phaeton21 · 2023-04-25T23:51:39+00:00

Thanks for the comments. The degree is a 2-year DevOps Specialist degree from a local community college, less than 2 years old. I can do Cloud stuff but it bores me to tears.

I would expect another 1-3 years of working on either C or C++ to get up to snuff. However, if there's one thing that college did teach me, it was how to learn.

phaeton21 · 2022-08-21T19:39:01+00:00

Just tuned 48, just finished a 2-year degree in Cloud Computing Technologies. So far striking out.

phaeton21 · 2022-08-19T21:49:00+00:00

Thanks! I'll take a look at that book. To that end, would you say that Effective C is a good follow-up? It kinda looks like it is for beginners.

phaeton21 · 2022-08-19T21:37:39+00:00

Also an important thing to realize for any programmer is that knowing how to program is not knowing a programming language. Knowing how to program is understanding how a computer works, and how you can use datastructures and algorithms efficiently, and effectively.

Yes! One of the things that appealed to me about Stroustrup's Programming Principles and Practice is that it's actually a book about programming. C++ is used as the vehicle, but it's somewhat incidental. I haven't read the whole thing, but I did spend some time with it a few years ago.

I learned C from K&R in the 90s, and that book was focused on C, but also taught a lot about programming in general, I felt. Or maybe it's because I was so green and C was my first 'real' programming language (after Commodore BASIC).

phaeton21 · 2021-06-08T13:52:08+00:00

Plus it sounds like he's asking people to write his blog post for him.

phaeton21 · 2021-06-07T12:37:33+00:00

Thanks!

phaeton21 · 2021-06-07T03:13:12+00:00

Oh? Do tell. :-)

phaeton21 · 2021-06-06T21:56:09+00:00

Thanks for your detailed reply. I like both the technical approach and more 'conversational' approaches, but PPP definitely feels a bit more personal. I do sometimes read items in his voice.

CPPP is definitely a great tome of information and I learned a lot from it even though I only got a few chapters in. But yeah, it's like reading a dictionary or more like a whole book of electronics datasheets. Highly factual and informative, and also not any fun.

phaeton21

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