>From personal experience I'll add to what Alan said. I took Web Design & Programming 1 here at Cornell. It was very easy for me since I know the stuff already but I saw what other students were dealing with. Such as:
- The class was full of people who had no experience with computer programming, and the professors have this crazy idea of teaching PHP at level 1. I mean, associative arrays and form handling. Stuff I don't think is so relevant to level 1. Anyway, a lot of students still don't understand the stuff and I really think the time could have been used to cover more stuff related to CSS or semantics. - Teaching usability was good. The professors made us think of potential users and create entire personas for them, and they made us do user tests for our projects. I think everyone in the class got a good grasp of how to make websites usable. Besides, one of the books we read was "Don't Make Me Think" by Steve Krug. - We did not cover Javascript at all. This was a good thing IMO since most students would have probably ended up using it obtrusively in their websites. - We didn't touch Flash either. Mostly had to do with problems with teaching a proprietary product. - It was very important that the professors declare tables for layout wrong from the beginning. There were definitely a lot of students that went into the course thinking this sort of thing is okay. One even decided to single me out for being such a table-for-layout hater. However, that's a story for another day. Fight the good fight. I definitely think the class should have covered more CSS, and more accessibility. Otherwise it was a good class. Next semester I'll be taking level 2, which is PHP & MySQL. Should be more fun. -- -- Christian Montoya christianmontoya.com ... rdpdesign.com ... cssliquid.com ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
