Well lookie lookie what decided that it'd work today. Here I go promising 4-5 new blogs a week minimum and I get into blogger.com last night only to find "The engineers are working on the problem, sorry for the inconvenience, you still suck though." message.
At least it's up this morning. I was surfing around last night and happened to go out to http://www.wickedlysmart.com and saw that Kathy & Bert have a new book out that's in the "Head First" series! *happy dance* And one that I really need! "Head First Design Patterns" is the new book, and if you're a programmer and unfamiliar with the Head First series of books, you don't know what you're missing. These books are AMAZING for just pure learning content, as well as making the concepts you're learning FUN. The books are just chock full of puzzles, crosswords, drawings, diagrams, silly pictures, even sillier captions, etc. As a big game/puzzle fan, I remember so much more by going through the examples in the book, and I'm having a blast as well. Kudos to Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates on their latest iteration in this series (I learned that from the Head First Java book). Your book series is the only one that would make me leave my cozy fireplace at 10:15pm and drive out to Borders to pick up because I *HAD* to have it that second! I only hope there's a Bela Fleck and the Flecktones reference in this one like there was in the first one... ;)
So, curled up with book. On couch. Studying till 1am. Then I go to sleep around 1:30am. By 3am I'm rousted awake by yet another nightmare, only this time so vivid that it seemed real, and I tried to shake it off like water on a labrador's coat, but it wouldn't shake. So I wrote it all down. Chilling stuff, really, but I think I actually got the first two chapters for my new novel written. If the ideas come pouring in as fast and furious on this one as they did for the first two chapters, I think I'm home free to finish this novel by spring and start sending out requests for submissions and query letters. Fingers crossed. Bet you didn't know I even WAS working on a novel too, did you?
At least it's up this morning. I was surfing around last night and happened to go out to http://www.wickedlysmart.com and saw that Kathy & Bert have a new book out that's in the "Head First" series! *happy dance* And one that I really need! "Head First Design Patterns" is the new book, and if you're a programmer and unfamiliar with the Head First series of books, you don't know what you're missing. These books are AMAZING for just pure learning content, as well as making the concepts you're learning FUN. The books are just chock full of puzzles, crosswords, drawings, diagrams, silly pictures, even sillier captions, etc. As a big game/puzzle fan, I remember so much more by going through the examples in the book, and I'm having a blast as well. Kudos to Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates on their latest iteration in this series (I learned that from the Head First Java book). Your book series is the only one that would make me leave my cozy fireplace at 10:15pm and drive out to Borders to pick up because I *HAD* to have it that second! I only hope there's a Bela Fleck and the Flecktones reference in this one like there was in the first one... ;)
So, curled up with book. On couch. Studying till 1am. Then I go to sleep around 1:30am. By 3am I'm rousted awake by yet another nightmare, only this time so vivid that it seemed real, and I tried to shake it off like water on a labrador's coat, but it wouldn't shake. So I wrote it all down. Chilling stuff, really, but I think I actually got the first two chapters for my new novel written. If the ideas come pouring in as fast and furious on this one as they did for the first two chapters, I think I'm home free to finish this novel by spring and start sending out requests for submissions and query letters. Fingers crossed. Bet you didn't know I even WAS working on a novel too, did you?
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