After loosing my job last year I decided to go back to college. My wife and I both signed up for classes at Tesst College of Technology located at Towson, MD. I’m 54 years old. I’ll be 55 October 3rd. My wife is 25, she will be 26 the 17th of this month. My wife and I have carried a 4.0 average since we started, both of us are on the President’s List. Originally we were given the Pell Grant, then Financial Aid said I made too much money last year. Now I have to pay back an additional 20K in student loans. That was a low blow since I’ve been collecting Unemployment since November of 2009.
I’ve been very diligent about my job search. I know I’ve sent out several hundred resumes. I have a fair education, I went to a Technical School and I have a College Degree. I have a little over 30 years Computer Experience. I do not have my Certifications needed to land a job in the Computer field. The primary reason I decided to go back to college was to get my A+, Net+, and Security+ Certifications. While attending college an internship for People’s Community Health Center became available. I have main frame programming experience. I’ve also been designing Web sites for around 15 years. HTML and CSS is very easy for me. Now I’m learning C# using Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 Express. You can learn along with me. Below was my first week’s assignment:

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1. Download and listen to the video on this page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/bb308760.aspx

2. Download and listen to the video on this page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/ff728586.aspx

3. Install Web PI from
http://www.microsoft.com/express/downloads/#2010-Web-Platform-Installer
by clicking on free download link

4. Install Visual Web Developer (VWD) from
http://www.microsoft.com/express/downloads/#2010-Visual-Web-Developer

by clicking on free download link (this will launch Web PI to install VWD). This installation also includes MS SQL Server Express edition as well (select if it is already not selected).

5. Read the following links in the page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/bb308786.aspx

Tier One: Web Development

Introduction to Visual Web Developer
> Introduction to Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Edition
> Visual Web Developer 2008 Express Feature Tour

Introduction to Web Development
> Introduction to the Web as a Platform
> Introduction to CSS
> Introduction to JavaScript

Introduction to Programing Languages
> Introduction to the Visual Basic Programming Language
> Introduction to the C# Programming Language

Bits & Bytes
> Lesson 1: Problem Solving in Life and Technology
> Lesson 2: Things, Things, and More Things
> Lesson 3: The Data Game
> Lesson 4: Computer IQ
> Lesson 5: Life before Mice

6. Read the following links in the page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/bb308778.aspx

Tier Two: Web Development

Introduction to ASP.NET
> Introduction to ASP.NET
> ASP.NET “How Do I” Video Series
> Visual Basic: Beginning Website Development Module 1
> Visual C#: Beginning Website Development Module 1

Visual C#: Absolute Beginner Series
> Lesson 1: Getting Started
> Lesson 2: Creating a User Interface
> Lesson 3: Events and Postback
> Lesson 4: Web application state

7. Read the following links in the page
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/beginner/bb308821.aspx

Tier Three: Web Development

ASP.NET
> Visual Basic: Beginning Website Development Module 2
> Visual C#: Beginning Website Development Module 2

Visual C#: Absolute Beginner Series
> Lesson 5: Debugging and Tracing
> Lesson 6: Style sheets and Master Pages
> Lesson 7: Databinding
> Lesson 8: GridView and FormView controls
> Lesson 9: Membership and Login controls
> Lesson 10: Configuring, Building and Deploying
> Lessons 11 – 14: Building a Quiz engine

If you follow along with me you can learn at my pace. This was my next lesson:

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Master the following youtube videos:

html:

css:

This is the first of many CSS videos done by the youtuber called “thenewboston”.
Once you launch this one, look for the remaining video links of this series on the right side of the page – go in serial order 2, 3, ….

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START OF MY SECOND WEEK:

http://www.asp.net/mvc/tutorials

Tutorials for Contact Manager

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My current Lesson is to go here:

http://www.asp.net/web-forms

and master all the basic web-form videos.

I’m doing all of this in a 2 week period plus studying for finals for my Computer Networking Technology course at Tesst College of Technology.

If you want to get ahead you can’t sit on your ass and wait for opportunity to come to you.

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