Coffee and Clover

Finished day 3 of training. Despite not trying to speed things up (in fact I consider myself a bit too talkative during lectures) the class is moving at breakneck speed and we are now 1.5 days ahead of schedule. My slides are now out of sync, LOL. This is certainly a good batch of teachers as they are picking up the concepts very well and it shows in the way they participated in the CRC exercise today. They also are asking very good questions regarding various aspects of replicating the training later with their students. I'm also very glad they interrupt my explanations with their questions. Maybe that's why we're going so fast, dunno. They're a bit overexcited to get to the programming part already and thankfully we start that tomorrow. Unlike earlier, Ubuntu's zoom function worked well today and I was laughing to myself being able to zoom in to specific parts of the slides especially when showing the teacher-students parts of a Java class while in Eclipse. Havin...

Day 1 of my first training for O&B. How did it turn out? The teacher participants are competent, responsive, enthusiastic, unafraid to pick up stuff and ask good questions. Some of them knew SQL already but were intrigued by how much farther they can take the base material in their classes later. It was an eye opener for a number of them how the view of SQL from the academic and the business fronts differ oh so slightly but result in dramatic differences. Day 2 coming up. I won't be blogging daily about this. Just very very happy that day before birthday is worth celebrating. And I really enjoyed the tuna sandwiches I prepared for lunch. Oh before I forget, +1 to geek. Getting a United Federation of Planets comm display (it's my Ubuntu login splash screen) projected onscreen.