A bit of history. I graduated a technical high school in 1982 with the idea of being an electrician. Went right to work. Shortly discovered that I had absolutely no interest in that field. Wound up doing some other construction, painting, odd jobs for a few years. Then discovered computers in the mid/late 80’s. Started trying to learn programming on my own. Never learned enough to actually do anything serious with, but got good enough at using pcs to get out of the construction site and into the office. Worked at various office manager/admin type jobs throughout the 90’s, then discovered Flash in ‘99 and the rest is history. Found my calling, so to speak.
So, in my Flash work, I use a lot of math, physics in the experimental stuff, and some pretty serious development practices in my day to day work, creating large Flash applications. All this is stuff I’ve just taught myself, read about, learned on line, or just figured out or faked.
I figured it was time I got myself a real education in the subject. So I signed up at the local community college and in September will be starting the first courses towards my computer science degree. I pretty much aced most of the admission tests, but in the college math one, there was a lot of stuff that was a complete mystery to me. So, my first courses will be College Writing I and College Algebra I.