I earned my Webmaster's certification at ACC and the php (and other) classes were very helpful. And they only last about 5 weeks usually.
Paul wrote: > For what it's worth, any no offense to anyone who posted about > Lynda.com. I also think Lynda.com is awesome. I did a quick search on > PHP and the results returned 4 courses. Two of which are all of 16-17 > seconds in length. The other two are 10-11 minutes. I would not > consider this /comprehensive/. > > Jonathan, for my opinion it really depends on two important variables. > > a) How best to /you/ absorb training information. Are you the type of > person that can pick up a book on the subject and consume the details? > Do you need one-to-one instructor driven instructions? > b) In what environment are you specifically interested in? Meaning for > PHP you can get training for example in Dreamweaver. Or you can get > training on using TextMate and learn to do all the things DW does for > you. > > Maybe look into the Austin Community College. They used to offer a > Webmaster cert program which was part of the Adult Education. Lindsey > Allen (also on this list) might be so kind to offer some opinion on > ACC. They offer both online self-paced sessions as well as > in-classroom instructor lead courses. > > P- > > > On May 14, 2009, at 10:26 AM, Art Thompson wrote: > >> I suggest Lynda.com as well. For years I didn't take them seriously >> because, after all, how could a video tutorial take the place of an >> O'Reilly book or a physical class on a subject. But, I've found that >> their one-on-one, tutorial-based learning is superb for technical >> subjects such as PHP or ActionScript and I feel that they are >> unmatched with regards to the time and effort put in to learning and >> what I actually walk away with. Plus, you can't really beat the >> price. Also, I keep strange hours and who's going to teach me >> one-on-one Advanced ActionScript at 2 in the morning? >> >> Art >> >> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Rob <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> >> Take a look at geekaustin.org <http://geekaustin.org> ... they >> offer free mysql classes from >> time to time >> >> On May 13, 9:15 pm, Jonathan Horak <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> > Hello y'all, >> > >> > Anyone have recommendations for cost-effective PHP/MySQL >> training in >> > central Austin? I was recently laid off, so I'm looking to >> expand my >> > skillset -- advanced front-end developer here with beginner >> level PHP >> > experience -- while the job search continues. >> > >> > << Jonathan >> >> >> >> >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Our Web site: http://www.RefreshAustin.org/ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Refresh Austin" group. [ Posting ] To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Job-related postings should follow http://tr.im/refreshaustinjobspolicy We do not accept job posts from recruiters. [ Unsubscribe ] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] [ More Info ] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
