[Melbourne-pm] more computer programming stuff
Guy Morton
guy at alchemy.com.au
Sat Sep 20 07:47:28 PDT 2008
Forget Dreamweaver. Learn Flex (or SVG+Javascript, or preferably both).
Get an iPhone and write an app for it in SVG+Javascript..
Guy
On 20/09/2008, at 9:17 PM, John Thornton wrote:
>
> Hello
> I am a uni graduate [BA in maths/philosophy...yeah I know I
> wasted my youth :)] and at the moment I am doing a Dip of Graphics
> Design by
> distance mode. It's a pretty tough course actually: photoshop,
> Indesign etc.
> I am looking to work in the graphic design area in the future.
> Anyway, I am
> enjoying getting into programming so much, especially Java and Ruby,
> that I
> am open to doing a computer science/programming course in the
> future. Anyone
> know of any that are aimed at people with no programming knowledge
> or close
> to it? I would prefer TAFE or off campus. I do not understand the
> postgraduate fee system. I want something hands on where I get to
> program.
> Sure, you have to understand something about what an object is to do
> OOP.
> Fine. But I mean I don't need the history of programming, socio
> postmodern
> Derrida critique of the programming ethos etc etc [OK that's a touch
> sarcastic].
>
> I really have to make a big decision in the near future with
> where I
> go with this graphics stuff. One option is to complement it with
> some web
> programming/set up stuff which would be where programming could come
> in.
> Other options are to spend my money instead on more software and
> even at
> student prices software in graphics costs a bit! I have Indesign,
> Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash and Dreamweaver. They are HUGE
> programs. If
> anyone knows of any good Dreamweaver/web courses that would be good
> too.
>
> Anyway, hope that the Storm can come back. [I am a Melbournite]
>
> John
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