Hi everybody, new poster here. Sorry if this topic already has other threads, didn't see any looking several pages back.
Any advice on my indecision would be greatly appreciated. I recently decided on pursuing an IT career after getting burnt out with teaching and tutoring math (have a BS in the subject). I plan on starting with what seem to be the standard certs (A+,N+,S+, and probably others). I was planning on starting continuing ed courses in a few weeks to prep for the exams, but I'm now thinking about doing at least the A+ studies on my own using popular resources (Meyers aio, Exam Cram, Messer vids, etc) as study guides.
I don't have a ton of IT experience, but technology comes pretty naturally to me, I'm very interested, and I like to tinker. My experience with computers aside from regular usage includes relatively minor things like hardware replacement and upgrades, reinstalling windows, setting up small household networks, light registry editing and command prompt entry, and a little programming (Java, C+). I've never built an entire computer or modified one significantly, but I did read a book called
How Computers Work ten years ago
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With my background, does anyone think I should save the cost of taking classes and do it myself or might the formal learning environment provide angles that I wouldn't learn going it alone? (I should mention that cost is not an issue, although I prefer to be thrifty if justified.) Thanks in advance.
