If you’re interested in learning a bit more about Ajax, you might want to give Sang Shin’s 10 week free Ajax course a try. The class starts on August 4th - to register, send an email to the Yahoo group he has created. The schedule looks pretty darn complete though alas, no mention of Prototype or script.aculo.us… Of course if Ajax isn’t your thing, take a look at the other courses he teaches.
Free Online Ajax Course
Posted by: Nathaniel Schutta on July 24, 2006

About Nathaniel Schutta
Nathaniel T. Schutta is a software architect and Java Champion focused on cloud computing, developer happiness and building usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written multiple books, appeared in countless videos and many podcasts. He’s also a seasoned speaker who regularly presents at worldwide conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, meetups, universities, and user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches students to embrace (and evaluate) technical change. Driven to rid the world of bad presentations, he coauthored the book Presentation Patterns with Neal Ford and Matthew McCullough, and he also published Thinking Architecturally and Responsible Microservices available from O’Reilly. His latest book, Fundamentals of Software Engineering, is currently available in early release.
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