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I was looking at:

http://www.classesusa.com/categor....4673924

And was interested in a bunch of the courses there for: Photoshop, HTML, A+, C++, Networking, Java, Perl, Macromedia Software, and a few more (yeah I know that's a lot of them).

 

Anyone ever take online courses like this?  Are they really hard?  Do they help you out?

 

I want to expand my knowledge and stray from doing drafting work and get more into my hobby which is messing w/ computers (networking thru webmaster).  I figure I'd rather do a job that I really enjoy doing and is a bit more challenging.

 

I'm going to scope out the local colleges and perhaps quit work, go back to school full time and find a part time job to keep up w/ the truck payments for a year while I take some more schooling.

 

Now to just check on that part time job I was looking at :D

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Cool, this is about the only way to take all the classes that I want.  The local colleges have bogus schedules for most classes, which is the main reason that I haven't finished my associates degree in mechanical design.  The classes that I have left are at weird times.  One of them is two credits, 4 hours a week and the class times were different each day (and by each day, it was split up into 4 class periods, each on a different day) and one of them had an hour break in between.  Way too much time to waste, especially w/ a 1/2 hour drive to the campus and paying for parking each time.  Not only that, but it would be the only class I could take because it would interfere w/ every other class on my schedule.

 

 

Larry, have you taken any classes online yet?  There's a few at the local campuses that I'm going to take and a few other ones that are being taught in the area as well, but the bulk will be online courses.

 

Any recommendations other than the ones I listed?

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My company currently bought access for all of its employees on this website Online Training.  I've been through the A+ and now I'm working on all the networking stuff.  Seems pretty good...not sure how much it costs though.

 

 

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my english 101 class is online. god it sucks. for computer based classes, i strongly suggest going to a class for those. specially network ones dealing with routers and switches. you'll never get as much out of the onlines running stuff like router esim (cisco program). the A+ ones you shouldnt even need a class for, its extremely easy test.

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I think I'm going to take some of the courses at the local tech school.  Me thinks I should get the A+ Certification and MCSE certified.  In addition to that I'm going to take some classes on JAVA script as well as a few other web related stuff.

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