Three weeks gone.

Well, if Wednesday checkins are the measure, it looks like the sick kid and events killed three weeks. Or four, if you count this Weds too, since almost nothing got done today either.

I did do some of the Nand to Tetris course-- the intro/overview, and the first week. Almost got the first week homework done. Read the textbook up through the third week/chapter. It was helpful/orienting. (But decided I do not have enough hours/week to avail do that course right now, so I do not plan to continue and complete.)

Also a few inches gained on the two Ruby items.

Progress bars:

• Ruby Wizardry: An Introduction to Programming for Kids by Eric Weinstein. p 208/272. 
• Codecademy.com Intro to Ruby nine-hour course. 79% complete 

Non progressing (or nonlinearly progressing) bars:

• LinuxFoundationX: LFS101x.2 Introduction to Linux. No progress. (Was doing Nand to Tetris instead.) 
• Nand to Tetris Coursera course (completed most of Week One) and Elements of Computing Systems textbook by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken (read through chapter four).
• 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. 
• Note new book, similar, but in Python and by a woman: Hello Web App by Tracy Osborn.
• Unity 4.x Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide, by Ryan Henson Creighton.: 69% complete. (No progress since Dec 13-- switched focus.)

From NAND to Tetris

Today's work session cancelled by sick kid.

My scattering (multiplying? replacing?) of task bars continues: a friend sent a recommendation for the new NAND to Tetris Coursera course (starts April 11, 2015), and I feel sort of hungry-angry about it. I want this literacy. They claim it's a basic course, no technical background required. Ha. I read the first few pages of the textbook, and it was scary. And I don't think the I have the hours per week that I would need to wrestle with it. (Especially if I keep using the few hours I have to explore new courses rather than finish my "old" ones.)

• Book: The Elements of Computing Systems, MIT Press, by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken
• From NAND to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer From First Principles website

Toys to supplement Week One:

• Logic Gate Simulator -  by Steve Kollmansberger
• Logic Gate Simulator - Academo.org

Linux

Well, as I continue my nonlinear explorations, I am looking at adding yet another unfinished Progress Bar to my record: LinuxFoundationX: LFS101x.2 Introduction to Linux.

I supposed I should also add the kid book I am reading in odd moments: Ruby Wizardry: An Introduction to Programming for Kids by Eric Weinstein. It's funner than Codecademy.

Progress bars:

• LinuxFoundationX: LFS101x.2 Introduction to Linux. Completed Chapter 00, Welcome and Introduction, and part of Chapter 01. Viewed perky intro videos. Enjoyed. (Course consists of 18 chapters plus final exam.)
• Possible inspiration: The Code: Story of Linux movie. I like books/movies that lionize hacker culture :) But I don't have much movie-watching time avail.
• Ruby Wizardry: An Introduction to Programming for Kids by Eric Weinstein. p 169/272.
• Codecademy.com Intro to Ruby nine-hour course. 70% complete 

Non progressing (or nonlinearly progressing) bars:

• 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.)