Education
WaSP InterAct Curriculum
One of the many exciting things I learned about at this year’s South by Southwest Interactive conference was the launch of a curriculum project from the Web Standards Project. The WaSP InterAct Curriculum is a set of courses for budding web professionals divided into 6 disciplines: Foundations Front-end Development Design User Science Server-side Development Professional [...]
A List Apart: Issue 276
Issue No. 276 of A List Apart delves into a topic that I feel very strongly about: Web Design Education. Both articles in this week’s issue are well-written and provide a realistic summary of the challenges that exist in transforming today’s students into tomorrow’s web professionals. They both also paint a picture of hope through [...]
Flex 3 Class
Greg & Alex are teaching another cool class and asked me to pass on the details: Due to the success of our ActionScript 3.0 course, and thanks to some great feedback from our students, we are preparing to hold a new class on Adobe Flex 3 on October 23, 2008 from 9:00-5:00. Get started building [...]
Making time for talent
Much like we aren’t born with knowledge of programming and design, aptitude, or talent, isn’t born-in either. Until recently, I didn’t quite grok this. Thanks to a fantastic book (Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain) suggested to me by Bob Wertz, the realization that talent isn’t innate, but rather developed was a pretty [...]
How do you like them apples?
Martin Ringlein uses the pointedly cynical “I got her number” scene from the movie Good Will Hunting to kick off an interesting post on the value of a college degree in web design. He offers some persuasive logic from both sides of the fence before opening the discussion with the question: “Is a degree in [...]
