Revisiting Material

After a few days of getting acclimated, it has been pure joy to finally delve into the course work.

Rewind…Truth be told, I had journeyed down this road about a year ago, so this is not my first exposure. I completed several courses and took meticulous notes — better known as the “spoon feeding” stage. I have always found this part vital to getting things done efficiently with less error and guess work learning other languages. The hectic few months that followed erased much of the knowledge I gained from my initial two month investment. A few months later, I received a work assignment to work on a AR project using MRTK 2 for the HoloLens 2 and was able to use constructs from my computer science background to create the logic for a menu navigation system in C# utilizing constructs such as interfaces and singletons. It was invaluable to work with professional developers and seeing the different ways teams organized their code. Even though the project felt foreign to me, the fact that I was able to figure my way though was a sign that the material I had learned a few months prior, although different, was enough to get me through an assignment I initially had no idea I could complete.

Back to the present…During this second pass through the material and a little real world experience under my belt, there is a side benefit to how this knowledge comes together with greater ease. The language constructs are familiar, the art and visuals are foreign to me (I am and art idiot and thank goodness for the fabulous assets made available to us for this course), and working with them all together in a single ecosystem is the challenge and ultimately what makes this an exciting and engaging experience.

The power of revisiting knowledge after some time has passed has proved invaluable to clarify and solidify what seemed fragmented and unreachable almost a year ago.