I think a lot of student developers and/or designers will especially appreciate the “You-Should-Be-So-Lucky Client” who thinks that “Our cred should be payment enough”. From the 12 breeds of clients (and how to work with them).
asides
“Alan Kay is saying that the problem with education is the adults, their lack of imagination and their dislike for maths and science…” from Bill Kerr’s The problem with Education
I’ve been tagged recently with the 5 things meme going round the blogosphere (thanks Ian and Chris). But thought I’d try to move the meme around into the German blogosphere :) only problem is I don’t know anyone to tag (other than Franzie). See LebenundLernenLassen.
Wow… Geek Olympics for Web designers! Russ has announced a Web-a-thon for July 2007 - you and your team can build a site in 24hrs for a charity!
Should learners be learning Javascript?
From Christian Montoya:
It is my opinion that we should not introduce Javascript to these students at all. There isn’t enough time to teach them how to use Javascript correctly, and there are more useful things we can teach them related to CSS and PHP. I think Javascript should be avoided altogether.
We do have time to learn a little more in our course… with activities like the JavaScript challenges for input validation, but it’s still a struggle for most people given that it’s their first taste of programming. I think most of us in the course just learn the basics - enough to learn more if we have time/are keen.
Perhaps we should do PHP first? Hmmm… unfortunately our new national qualification structure doesn’t allow it. (Note to self: add unobtrusive Javascript to challenges!)