nonlinear progress?

Joined the devChix mailing list. Along with Wired magazine and O'Reilly Media's Programming Newsletter, helps give me a sense of culture and context.

Other "progress bars":

• Using Drupal, 2nd Edition. Choosing and Configuring Modules to Build Dynamic Websites. By Angela Byron, Addison Berry, Bruno De Bondt. p.86 of 456. (19%)
• Codecademy.com Intro to Ruby nine-hour course. 38% complete 
• Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition by Jon Loeliger & Matthew McCullough: p 130 of 416. (31%)
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer, by Sandi Metz. Read through chapter 6 of 9.
• Michael Hartl's Ruby on Rails Tutorial: completed chapter 2 of 12.
• Unity 4.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide, by Ryan Henson Creighton.:  69% complete. (No progress since Dec 13-- switched focus.)

My latest distraction, sprung from the events of winter break: 

Also, just for fun, with my kid:

Back from winter break

Five weeks of silence on this blog. Five weeks of almost no computer lessons. Completely distracted by a personnel crisis in an organization I am in. Crisis phase is now over but restructuring work continues.

Purchased and began reading Version Control with Git, 2nd Edition by Jon Loeliger, Matthew McCullough. Everyone keeps saying Git is an easy no-brainer but I keep feeling confused and wary. This book is helping a lot. "Don't worry your pretty little head about the details" only goes so far.

I may begin the Ruby sequence on Codecademy because a) I am still distracted enough to need something a little brainless to do and b) I am tired of being given code examples that I am supposed to "understand the gist of" when I don't even know the elementary syntax. Plus, Codecademy is only play so it doesn't require Git.

But, a friend is working on learning Drupal/Open Atrium, causing my attention to wander toward learning more about Drupal... Wander, wander...