Wanting to learn on my own.

[OlsonMW]

Greetings and hello.

I am very much interested in becomming a Netorking Professional. I had gone to SIBT for little more then one semester. The courses were bull****. The teacher decided to talk about his personal life more then teach the class. Needless to say after a full semester of this, and not learning a single thing, I left. Now I have $10,000.00 in student loans to deal with.
What I am now want to do is teach myself. I was wondering if the great minds of this forum might have suggestions for books, cds, web pages, etc, that I may use to teach myself. My fiancee and I have limited money, and with my student loans I have acquired already, I'm unsure about going back and choosing another school.
I would like to advance through A+ certification and eventually get Cisco Certification.
If anyone would have any ideas, as I said above, and would be truely apprectiated. I would like to start with the very basics, even though I already know the very basics, it never hurts to crawl before you walk.

Thank you very much for your help.
Matt

 

[shouup]

no offense but i had a teacher that did the same thing and there is still lots of info to be leared, otherwise they wouldnt pay him to teach.

 

[shouup]

But to answer your question you may want to look into a class that that uses the cisco netacad accounts. They always update it for new tests and you can have a perminant account with full access for the future.

 

[OlsonMW]

I understant that not all of college can be teaching and some teachers will kick back a few days and talk about personal things. Though this teacher spent a week plus a few days telling us about his cruise. And I wasnt the only one to leave. I was one of three left of a class of 15. All left for the same reason.

Although thanks much for the info. Much appreciated.