Re: Lower Alabama MCAD Training??

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From: Mike (void_at_thenullset.com)
Date: 08/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:39:55 -0500

Hey thanks for the info. After looking into it more, I found that you dont
actually need to attend these classes... for some reason I thought 2 were
required. It seems I can just do self-study and do the tests and I'm
golden. I think I am going to go with these Amit books that Raja seems to
be raving about all over this newsgroup. Anybody used these other than Raja
or Raja's 5 other newsgroup names? =P. Seriously, they any good? I see
Amazon is rating it around 4 stars, so it cant be "that" bad...

I'm basically looking for a book that is much like a college programming
textbook.... you have assignments each day to program little things and you
learn stuff as you go. Are these books kind of like that? I think I learn
best that way. Let me know. Thanks!

Also, I signed up on TestKing which is like an interactive test site, as
this is what a friend who recently got his MCSD did. It lets me download
practice tests and do simulated tests online. It assures me its not a
"braindump" site, which I guess is where you get the actual quesitons
verbatim from the exams and memorize them.

Yay! Now I can take the MCSD tests AND afford to eat!

-Mike

"Sharon" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0b2c01c48c4b$1c8b17d0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> You could check with Athena in Birmingham. A coworker and
> I recently took a class for the MCAD track there and our
> instructor was also teaching a night class the same week.
> We were taking a class that had been cancelled twice at
> another company in Atlanta and Athena was very helpful in
> putting together a class to help us out.
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Forgive my ignorance. I with my company from Michigan to
> Orange Beach,
>>Alabama a year ago when it moved (software development
> job), so I'm still a
>>bit new to the area. I want to start taking tests
> towards an MCSD.
>>
>>Help me out. What are my options? I don't esspecially
> want to take a bunch
>>of time off to do this, I need it to work around my day
> work schedule.
>>Should I do some kind of online/CD-ROM training? Are
> there training centers
>>in my area that offer courses in the evenings?
>>
>>-Mike
>>
>>
>>.
>>

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