JHU Online Class and Self Training

Board Game Buddy (BGB) hasn't made much progress in the last few weeks but I'm hoping to get back to it soon when I get some free time.  In the meantime, I've been reading some of a Lisp book from an AI class I took back in college which has been pretty interesting.  We've also gotten our book for our first online class at JHU - enterprise Java.  Looking forward to seeing how our first online class will go - I think I will like it but I'm not sure yet.  JHU uses Sakai for their online learning - as opposed to Blackboard or WebCT.  I haven't used Sakai but it's cool it's open source and the demo seemed pretty good so I am looking forward to using it.  The only downsides we've heard about our class so far is that it will be a lot of work and that the teacher isn't very good.  The work we probably won't mind that much since we'll have the extra time that we don't have to spend driving to/from class but we'll see how the teacher is.

On our California trip over here, I prepared by getting all of the Oracle 11g self training CDs that I got a few months ago.  I was supposed to take a class for it but instead we went on this vacation =-).  So, I have been doing the self training to see how that goes and I hope one day to take some of the certification exams since those should be covered as well.  The self study has been going well - I may still take a class or get some other material but I think I am learning a bunch just with the CDs.  I can also play around with 11g from just downloading it too.  I tried to start installing it on the Mac but ran into a few issues so I will have to try again soon.