February 18th, 2009 Deborah
Registration Is Open At LVS Online Classes - Where Learning Is Fun!
Over 100 online courses are now open for enrollment
NEW Courses for March session:
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Returning students receive a 20% discount! Just sign into your LVS account and the discount will automatically be applied to your registration.
Our Windows classes are FREE to everyone and includes instructor support!
For more information about the new classes being offered this session, as well as educational version software eligibility, please visit the LVS Blog.
Instructor-led classes begin March 14, 2009. If you have not yet registered, head on over to the LVS Online Registration to enroll today!
Registration for the March 2009 session ends March 11, 2009.
THE Web Coding Class To Take
Of course, all the LVS classes are fun-filled and jam-packed with information you can’t live without BUT none of them offers the opportunity to learn the basics of website coding like Build Your Web Site I.
Of course, I’m more than a bit biased because Build1 is my course. I authored the material and I teach it - that makes it very personal to me. As such, I make every effort to pass my enthusiasm along to students.
If you’ve ever looked at a web site on the internet, wondered how it was developed and, for a fleeting moment, considered creating a web site of your own, you had a touch of inspiration. Chances are, though, that thought was followed by, "I can’t do that". If you’ve convinced yourself you don’t have the skills to publish a web site, I’m not going to argue with you. After all, you’ve already talked yourself into not being able to do it.
Now if on the other hand, there is even a smidgen of doubt, you’ve come to the right place.
Over the past several years of teaching at LVS, I’ve had a number of students proclaim they were nervous, doubtful, and even intimidated by the prospect of learning web site coding. Yet, they signed up for Build Your Web Site - Intro course. Kudos to them and to their ultimate accomplishments because those folks have web sites today.
You see, it’s all a mindset. And the lessons play a large part as well!
I’ve designed the Level I course in such a way that it introduces basic coding concepts by discussion and example. Each lesson builds on the previous one so what you learn in Lesson 1 will be used consistently throughout the rest of the lessons, as well as in all the Build Series classes, thus affording you the opportunity to become comfortable, by virtue of repetition, with the coding experience as you learn new material.
The material, although somewhat technical in nature, is presented in an easy to read, casual manner. A former student commented she was afraid the lessons would be like having to “read some geek manual”. Instead, she went on to say, they were more along the lines of a friend talking to her. Ah, mission accomplished!
And should you “hiccup” during any part of the lessons, I’m there to help. Students are assigned to a class message board on which they post assignments and ask questions. You are never left to your own devices; there is no need to research any outside resources to complete an assignment nor are you left stranded without guidance.
For those individuals with previous coding experience, this class is of benefit as well. I’ve had student after student tell me they didn’t realize to what extent standards compliant X/HTML coding and CSS had developed since they learned to code.
So, whether you are someone who doesn’t know what X/HTML & CSS means or have prior coding experience, if you want to meet other exceptional people who registered for the Build1 Intro course while having fun, I’ll “see” you in class.
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