This class is for existing Flash designers who want to incorporate user interactivity in their Flash web site or Flash developers who have not made the switch from earlier versions of ActionScript.

Currently ActionScript 3.0 is the internal programming language of Flash, Flex and Adobe AIR. This object oriented language is more adherent to the ECMA-262 standard which many other languages (i.e. JavaScript) follow.

Students will learn the basics of the core language of ActionScript 3.0, how it is used within the timeline, interact with objects (movieclips) on the stage and library, develop simple animations with just ActionScript and understand the importance and how to create preloaders for your movies.

The class is only $25 and students can use either Adobe Flash CS5, CS4 or even CS3.

Topics covered:

Week 1: Trace statement, comments, variables, loops, functions and object basics.
Week 2: Manipulating movie clip properties
Week 3: Events: overview, targeting, propagating, timeline control methods
Week 4: More events: frame and keyboard events; timer events
Week 5: Loading external assets (images and movies); Display list explained
Week 6: Working with preloaders and sound

To give you an idea of how each lesson looks, here is the first lesson (.pdf).

Materials for Class

All the course materials for the class are sent via email as attachments within 48 hours of payment. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

This class is for web administrators, web developers, analysts, or anybody else wanting to learn how to write simple to complex queries to retrieve and manipulate data from a SQL Server or other similiar database.

SQL stands for Structured Query Language. SQL is a standard language that was designed to query and manage data in relational database management systems (RDBMS). An RDBMS is a database management system that is used today in every type of desktop or web-based application. Microsoft provides T-SQL (Transact SQL) as a dialect of, or extension to, SQL in Microsoft SQL Server, its RDBMS

Microsoft SQL Server is one of the most popular RDBMS used today and a solid understanding of T-SQL is critical if you want to have a successful career in Microsoft application development (desktop or web).

The class is only $25 and there are no other materials or software needed to purchase.

Topics covered:

Week 1: Setting up SQL Server 2008 Express & Management Studio
Week 2: SELECT statements; Predicates and Operators, Case Expressions
Week 3: Joins: Cross, Outer and Inner
Week 4: Subqueries
Week 5: Data Modification: Inserting, Updating, Deleting and Merging
Week 6: Programmable Objects: Variables, Routines and Functions

To give you an idea of how each lesson looks, here is the first lesson (.pdf).

Materials for Class

All the course materials for the class are sent via email as attachments within 48 hours of payment. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

This class is geared for web designers to help and learn how to use jQuery to enhance existing web pages as well as web developers to teach them how to use a very popular and powerful JavaScript library.

If you’ve spent any time at all trying to add dynamic functionality to your pages, you’ve found that you’re constantly following a pattern of selecting an element or group of elements and operating upon those elements in some fashion. You could be hiding or revealing the elements, adding a CSS class to them, animating them, or modifying their attributes.

Using raw JavaScript can result in dozens of lines of code for each of these tasks. The creators of jQuery specifically created the library to make common tasks trivial.

The class will be teaching not only how to use the many functions and properties of API, but practical examples you can use right away.

The class is only $25 and there are no other materials or software needed to purchase.

Topics covered:

Week 1: Getting Started with jQuery
Week 2: Selecting, Decorating and Enhancing
Week 3: Manipulating Content
Week 4: Animation Effects
Week 5: jQuery UI & Forms

To give you an idea of how each lesson looks, here is the first lesson (.pdf).

Materials for Class

All the course materials for the class are sent via email as attachments within 48 hours of payment. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

These courses are offered through this website and can be considered “self-study” which includes email support from the instructor.

This 6-week class will teach the students everything from the basics of programming, core concepts of the programming language, how the language is used on the web today, real best coding practices and some neat things that you can do with the DOM such as simple animation techniques. Each lesson is between 20 and 40 pages long (.pdf) and covers a lot of material including example files (.zip).

Support is available via direct email to the instructor.

The class is only $25 and there are no other materials or software needed.

Topics Covered:

Week 1: Core components: Data types, Arrays, and Conditional Statements
Week 2: Language Syntax: Loops, and Functions; JavaScript Native Objects
Week 3: Browser Objects (Location, Screen, Forms, Images) and DOM Overview
Week 4: Unobtrusive Scripting: Three Layers of a Web Page
Week 5: The DOM: Referencing and Modifying Elements; Creating a Custom Object
Week 6: Debugging Your Scripts; Ajax Basics: The XMLHttpRequest Object

To give you an idea of how each lesson looks, here is the first lesson (.pdf).

Materials for Class

All the course materials for the class are sent via email as attachments within 48 hours of payment. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

This ASP.NET class will teach client-side Web developers with C# experience the fundamentals of Web application site implementation using Microsoft ASP.NET. The class focuses on using the Microsoft .NET platform to create an ASP.NET Web application that delivers dynamic content to a Web site.

Students will use the free web development tool Visual Studio 2010 Express to create their ASP.NET 4.0 web pages.

The class is only $25 and there are no other materials or software needed.

Topics Covered:

Week 1: Creating your first ASP.NET page
Week 2: Web Control Classes
Week 3: Visual Appearance and Standard Site Layout
Week 4: Maintaining state
Week 5: Reusability with OOP

To give you an idea of how each lesson looks, here is the first lesson (.pdf).

Materials for Class

All the course materials for the class are sent via email as attachments within 48 hours of payment. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

I am teaching database-based ASP online class called ASP E-Commerce Database Basics at LVS Online.com.

This 6-week class will teach you how to interact with a database by displaying, retrieving and updating data. The class is a continuation from where I left off from my Basic Web Applications with ASP class.

The class is only $30 $15 and there are no other materials or software needed.

The class learning level is “intermediate” which means taking the basics you already know and developing a usable web application. The class uses a simple Microsoft Access database (provided), but you can use almost any type of database with minimal code changes.

Topics Covered:

Week 1: E-Commerce types; Overview of ADO; Connecting to our database
Week 2: SQL basics: SELECT, WHERE, ORDER BY, LIKE
Week 3: SQL continued: INSERT INTO and UPDATE; Managing our Products
Week 4: Recordsets and Pagination; Creating a Search
Week 5: Shopping Cart pt 1
Week 6: Shopping Cart pt 2; Checkout Process

The Online Store gives students a good example to use and refer to when they need to create their own database-driven dynamic web sites.

Here is the first lesson (.pdf) for you to see how it looks.

When Does Class Start?

The class runs five times a year for six weeks in January, March, May, August and October. To learn more view the course description page and contact me to find out the exact date on when you can register.

I only cover the basics of ADO in this class, but if you need addtional reference material here is an ADO Reference Guide (.pdf) by DevGuru.

I am teaching a ASP online class called Basic Web Applications with ASP at LVS Online.com, which will teach you the basics of creating server-side web development using Active Server Pages.

This 6-week class is great for people who have some basic web experience (HTML or CSS or JavaScript) and want to know how they can develop dynamic web pages on the web server.

The class is only $30 $15 and there are no other materials or software needed.

Even though Active Server Pages has been replaced by ASP.NET, it is still used by many companies and the process for server-side development is the same no matter what technology you use. Many of the objects in ASP are still used in the ASP.NET framework and would make the transition to a newer technology a lot easier.

Checkout these great reference guides (.pdf) on ASP and VBScript by DevGuru on to learn even more.

Topics Covered:

Week 1: How a web server works, server-side vs. client-side
Week 2: Processing Form Results
Week 3: VBScript Basics
Week 4: Redirecting the User
Week 5: More VBScript – Arrays and Loops
Week 6: Sessions and Cookies

To give you an idea of how each lesson looks, here is the first lesson (.pdf).

When Does Class Start?

The class runs five times a year for six weeks in January, March, May, August and October. To learn more view the course description page and contact me to find out the exact date on when you can register.