Finished module 1 on "Java Technology" last week and spent this week on module 2, "Building Blocks of Java Programming Language."  I've finished the first section of module 2, "Identifiers, Keywords, and Types," but am still working on the lab exercises for the "Expressions and Flow Control" section.  I'm hung up on the AdvancedLoopProject and will finish that over the weekend.  I think it will be easier to keep track of the nested loops after I've taken some time away from it to clear my head. 

Had to take a few hours out to learn about bitwise operators (both boolean & shift) as I'd never heard of them before; then returned to the normal study plan.  There are now 3 computers equipped to handle the tutorial; they all have Firefox, NetBeans, and Apache Flash.  (One is the computer you set up for me this week with Ubuntu and Eclipse).  I tried using Dropbox to transfer the NetBeans workbook exercises from one computer to another, but still had to set up the project and class heirarchy all over again; then I could just copy the source code in.  (There's one disadvantage of using an IDE that I'd never thought of before).  Since the tutorial lab exercises use NetBeans, it will be easier just to use the one dedicated computer for this course.  My progress on the tutorial should speed up now; it has taken a lot of time to set up the different computers and transfer files, though that's an important part of my education, too.  The only detours I foresee would be if/when I encounter another subject (or subjects) where the tutorial assumes more background than I've got, and I'd have to catch up again.