Chapter 8 Redux

I am feeling like I am learning a foreign language (which in reality I  am but instead I am in an eye-brain-hand vs. ear-brain-voice sort of way). The reason is that I am able to mostly understand what I see but am not able to easily implement it. When I was taking Spanish way back when, I was able to understand what I heard but I was not able to pull out the words, piece them together, and articulate it back. So, in effect, what I am not in the process of is understanding the pieces but not able to easily locate them and then not quite able to put them together. I guess that is the whole idea of drill and practice.

Just finished two hours and am up to page 169. I know I am complaining a lot but this blog is designed to be my own little world and reflects my thoughts. If anyone is actually reading this, thanks but the thoughts are for me, not for you; so if you think I am boastful, I am not. I am using this as a journal only. This is the biggest programming challenge of my life. I have lived in Access mediocrity for 20 years and do not want to discuss that as my career to other developers at the old age home. I want to earn my own respect first and then earn the respect of others later on.

To date I am at it for about 3 weeks. Every day I have done something. I think I have put in 40-45 hours total. I am about 1/3 through the book. When this is done, I have the iOS programmers guide next and probably many other books, pdfs and youtube videos. Many people have talked about writing their first app in 3 months doing 8-12 hour days. Since I am going on average 2 hours a day, assuming I can handle it, it will take me about 3 x 5 = 15 months. Not good. I want to get it down to 12 months so I have to up it to 2 ½ hour days. Or better yet, I’ll try for 3+ hours a day to get that extra padding.
There is A LOT to comprehend with Object Inheritance and as soon as I think I understand something, something new comes along and I am challenged again. This is all happening while I am trying to memorize and apply concepts. So much confusion with all these getting and setting
child, parent, main, etc. I just have to keep plugging away. I think I will look for some of those Stanford or Apple videos to get more insight.

Just finished reading chapter 8. Guess what? I am already reading it again! Exercises will have to wait until later or tomorrow!