Personal Growth
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Hello, I hope I am putting this in the right place, but I thought I would ask it. I am looking at learning the new technologies that are out there, but I work for a very small company (4 person R&D.. 1 Embedded HW designer, 1 Embedded SW Eng, 1 Doc Specialist, and me Windows Software Engineer.) I am used to working for companies that have 20+ developers but I was laid off during financial difficulties. I am a good C++ programmer although I want to learn all the tips and tricks of the gurus whose education was EE - hardware. I want to be as good as those people that write the good books. Some how I got off on the SW Eng and never looked back. However I have a significant hurdle that I have dealt with all my life... I am on the wrong side of the borderline of dyslexia.. Although I know several tricks to make reading easier, and they work extremely well for writing/reading code, but some times it is frustrating. This never bothered me when I was in college or working in a bigger development house, because I am very quick to learn when I have someone to talk with about the issues. (Being dyslexic has nothing to do with intelligence.. just reminding myself.) Earlier this year, I took my first on-line class in OpenGL. (really hoping to get in to game development...) However it was also still alot of reading and the email feedback. I learned because I wanted to learn, but I could have done better... Are all on-line courses like this? My new company can barely afford to pay the staff, let alone will they heed my calls to send me to training and the last time I tried to take a programming course at night from our local "college", I ended up knowing more and teaching more than the professor. I am looking for solutions, but if I have too I will continue to power my way through books. However any help would be appreciated. Brian
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Hello, I hope I am putting this in the right place, but I thought I would ask it. I am looking at learning the new technologies that are out there, but I work for a very small company (4 person R&D.. 1 Embedded HW designer, 1 Embedded SW Eng, 1 Doc Specialist, and me Windows Software Engineer.) I am used to working for companies that have 20+ developers but I was laid off during financial difficulties. I am a good C++ programmer although I want to learn all the tips and tricks of the gurus whose education was EE - hardware. I want to be as good as those people that write the good books. Some how I got off on the SW Eng and never looked back. However I have a significant hurdle that I have dealt with all my life... I am on the wrong side of the borderline of dyslexia.. Although I know several tricks to make reading easier, and they work extremely well for writing/reading code, but some times it is frustrating. This never bothered me when I was in college or working in a bigger development house, because I am very quick to learn when I have someone to talk with about the issues. (Being dyslexic has nothing to do with intelligence.. just reminding myself.) Earlier this year, I took my first on-line class in OpenGL. (really hoping to get in to game development...) However it was also still alot of reading and the email feedback. I learned because I wanted to learn, but I could have done better... Are all on-line courses like this? My new company can barely afford to pay the staff, let alone will they heed my calls to send me to training and the last time I tried to take a programming course at night from our local "college", I ended up knowing more and teaching more than the professor. I am looking for solutions, but if I have too I will continue to power my way through books. However any help would be appreciated. Brian
HAve you tried any text to speech programs? They can take an online book or email and verbalize it for you.