📚📆 Oops I Joined a Book Club!

📚Oops I Joined a Book Club!

Birds of a feather, read books together! LOL I made that up. 

I woke up one day and decided to seek like minded individuals. So I joined a local book club. 

Anyways, a random Google on the Internet and I found the website: www.bookclubs.com and joined a cute little group called the "Philly Sci-Fi Society" ran by a person named Katie. I blindly joined after seeing the current book on the list was UBIK a book unknown to me but indeed a Sci-Fi read. I started a little interaction with the group message board and WHAMMY! I get to meet them next month on the 10th of Jan. at Uncle Bobbie's Coffee & Books in Germantown. 🙌🏾 So anyways, I ordered the required reading and scheduled time each day to read the book for my bookclub and the book I already started. 

We can add my two books to my perpetual list of things to do 😩🤣 I may or may not have a problem. We can say for sure......

Anywhoo! to accomplish this task, I have created a short schedule for myself that will include coding and reading. 

DAYTIME BOOK: 

The Children of Blood and Bones Series will be my daytime book. (before Sunset)

I read part of this book before and so its a snoozer to me because none of its new. But I have to re-read it before I go on two the other parts in the series. To speed things up I'm using an audiobook. Mostly, I look forward to reading the next book. 

NIGHTTIME BOOK: 

Ubik will be my nighttime book. (Sundown) 

Super Sci-Fi book. I would have never chose it. This will be my before bed (or in the bed) I will be using my eReader and reading my Bookclub book. This will be considered my nighttime reading. Of course I have no limit to any of these activities, but the minimum is to pick them up and read a few pages (for progress). 

I have also created a date tracker in my book to annotate when i read and how many pages per session. This will count as more of an accountability log. 

Anyways, I look forward to meeting my book club and I will be back to provide reviews on them shortly.

If you want to join: https://bookclubs.com/clubs/6114455/join/4dde0412

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📚BOOK REVIEW: Sams Teach Yourself: Beginners Programming in 24 hours

Sams Teach Yourself: 

Beginners Programming in 24 hours 

Sams Teach Yourself : Beginners Programming in 24 hours 

by Greg Perry and Dean Miller 

Pearson Textbook (4th Edition)

ISBN 10: 0-13-583670-0

Where to Buy: https://a.co/d/b2TLimv

Goal: 

Was hanging in the library, decided to check this book out on the whim. 

Felt overwhelmed by the internet and the amount of information I was bumping into, so I decided to look at the Text Book section to figure out if there was anything that could help me figure out my career goals. I figured I wouldn't have a chance to become easily distracted with a book. 

Hope: 

I hope that I can gain an understanding of programming with python benefits. 

minimally, I can create a few things (projects) and add it to my list of higher level languages learned. 

I hope it all makes sense in the end. 

Outcome: 

OMG. Somehow I landed on Python. LOL But guess what, this book inspired me to keep going. the HTML, CSS stuff is fun and all, but I've always been curious about what Programming really looked like. 

I can officially add PYTHON to my things to do list. 🤣🤣🤣

📗 YES, highly recommended. (for all adults learners)

📕NO, for kids and anyone that hates technical manuals

📙 MAYBE, as a reference book

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📚Book Review: The Pragmatic Programmer

The Pragmatic Programmer

by Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt

ISBN 13: 978-0-13-595705-9

Where to Buy: https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master/dp/020161622X#averageCustomerReviewsAnchor 

Goal: 

Ironically enough, my blog wasn't originally inspired by this book. But, I am happy to say that the title alone caught my attention. 

Hope: 

I hope to gain a better understanding of Pragmatism and how it correlates with Programming. 

Outcome: 

Honestly, I wasn't able to complete this book. I returned it to the library, but I intended on purchasing it or checking it out again. It seemed to have some excellent tips for Programmers when making decisions in the workplace and when dealing with projects. 

I will definitely be circling back around to this one and providing better updates. 

📗YES, for adults. Maybe even download the audiobook. This isn't a code based book but more or less how to approach problems and solutions pragmatically. 

📕NO, to Kids. (the end)

📙MAYBE, as a reference book, if you aren't interested in reading this type of information from cover to cover. 

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📚Book Review: Beginners Step by Step Coding Course - Scratch

Beginners Step by Step Coding Course - Scratch 

Learn Computer Programming the easy way

Penguin Random House 

ISBN: 978-1-4656-8221-1

Where to Buy: https://www.amazon.com/Beginners-Step-Step-Coding-Course/dp/1465482210 

Goal: 

Harvard CS50 requires me to understand Scratch for the projects. 

Decide to use this book to learn and do a few introductory projects to save to my website (portfolio)

Hope: 

I hope that it helps me to understand the logic of coding from a kids point of view and give me the confidence to move forward into more difficult things. If a kid can do it then I can. 

Outcome: 

Book was returned. Was a nice overview but NOT for my age group. Not very useful for me but encouraged me to continue looking into textbooks to learn versus online platforms. I wouldn't say SCRATCH is for babies, but I am beyond that point in my learning. 

Recommendation: 

📗YES, for Kids 

📕NO, for someone with beginner-level or moderate experience

📙MAYBE, for anyone super afraid to get started

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