The thing I got out of boot camp is a new style of learning. Just sit down and do it. Don't think about doing it, don't ask someone else how to do it, don't make a thorough examination of the literature for 3 months before doing it.
Place a Linux CD in the drive and install, you don't need your hand held. In this day and age, it's even easy. Install AOLserver. You may run into some problems, but you'll learn alot. Start the psets.
It will be frustrating as hell because you don't know how to use emacs or vi, you don't know Tcl or SQL, you don't even know where the log files are. But you'll figure it out, you'll understand how it all plugs together, and you'll never forget. And let's be honest, it's not rocket science. What we've covered so far will take hours, not weeks.
There are 3 psets, taking 3 weeks (unless you have a life...). You don't install the ACS untill week 2, you don't use it for real until week 3. When you've finnished you will be able to build any site you can see on the Internet, so the saying goes. I think that's still largely true. If you look back you'll be amazed at what you've achieved in such a short space of time. If you look around you'll see that you know more than most out there.
You should be glad that the psets are a little out of date! It will give you the oppertunity to find out where the Oracle and Postgres documentation is, and how to use it. To build anything real, you're going to have to do this anyway. Don will be sending you an email about porting soon...
If you get cracking, you'll be done by the new year 😊
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