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I really like j_godley's blog. It's funny and actually talks about things that are interesting. I hardly care about choosing an eye doctor (although the advice could come in handy) or how God is like a father to us (I mean, that's pretty much the first lesson that you learn about God. Why blog about that?)

My first task is to learn Javascript. The basics take forever to get through, about forty minutes, page by page, but you realize that you're pretty much blasting through it, even the objects section, with ease. It makes me confident enough to actually go back and learn all of the functions and little details before I get cracking on the Advanced section. After that, it's PHP, then MySQL. I promised somebody I would get through the whole thing in a matter of days. I'm starting to believe that I can actually meet that promise.

You can learn C++ in a week. You can learn most of the social morales in a matter of minutes, etc. The craziest thing about schools is that they take what you could learn in a tiny amount of time, and they stretch the lessons out so that you learn a simple little thing a day. I know a little Java, but in those months, I'd imagine that I'd be able to get through it on my own and cover a ridiculous amount of other languages. Within a year, I could have so much knowledge that I could do something amazing with simply that. It's crazy to see so many people with years of experience in just one language. Why is expertise measured in time, and not expertise?

At this point, I know more about programming than a vast majority of America, but I'm one person in a tiny grey area between a know-nothing and an expert. I've wasted countless hours on forums when the best solution is to study on the language rather than find some help for a particular occurrence. Who is to say that the person can easily explain your situation and actually give you the solution, to boot? Do you learn or get an answer? What else do you learn?

It's just so easy to pick a language up. People think that they have no talent with computers in areas that don't take a large amount of talent to begin with (although, experts have devised such clever uses of programming that it's a talent to them).

You set a ridiculously tiny timeframe and you focus on your goal. That's how you get things done fastest. One step at a time. It's difficult to balance one lesson with another. The more that I observe schools, the more ridiculous they look to me. I might just drop out.