I know Christmas has not arrived yet but I was thinking about what I might do in the New Year (mainly as I still have not made my ATtiny85 Arduino Uno programmer yet and seem increasingly unlikely to before Christmas - so I might have to do it in the New Year) and I thought about what I wanted to do at the beginning of this year. For Jan'19 I wanted to study Artificial Intelligence at University at Masters level from the mathematical point of view. I could teach myself but I know what I'm like and I'd probably never get around to it. Regretfully my local (walking distance) University, which does offer a full Masters in AI does not offer the opportunity to study the individual units. So it was either £9000 and two years of my life, or nothing. So nothing won. I would still like to study AI mathematically before my brain turns to mush so I might have to think about Universities further afield - which is not quite so convenient. Anyway, during this thinking I received an email from Future Learn (an online teaching website thingy) to inform me that one of the areas I indicated an interest in was shortly going to be starting: 'Begin Programming : Build Your First Mobile Game'. This is an introduction to Java which should end up with a simple game to be played on an Android phone. I've always wanted to get to grips with Java and have an idea for a game for a mobile phone I have been toying with for some time, plus I want to know how to get stuff onto a mobile phone - currently I just piddle about wondering what is happening. This starts in Feb'20 so I've signed up for it. It's free.
Then today, another reminder email pings up about an Introduction to Python also free, starting in Jan'20, so I thought, why not and signed up for that one as well.
Hopefully my brain can cope with learning two different programming languages simultaneously. Maybe I'll be able to show that I can multi-task as well (although now I am retired I really do prefer uni-tasking - much to my wife's annoyance).
Dubbie
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