Get ready for the first GT ACM TechTopics series, “Intro to PHP”!
Have you ever wanted to learn website design or programming, mobile development, game creation, or any other useful topic not taught in Georgia Tech’s academic classes? GT ACM’s new TechTopics program offers you a guide to these and many more interesting subjects. Taught by industry professionals, GT instructors, and students such as yourselves, these informal “classes” teach everything from the basics to the advanced. Look for many engaging TechTopics classes to be taught throughout this semester and into the future.
Our first TechTopics series will introduce you to web development with PHP, one of the most widely used web scripting languages. Taught by student Blair Daly, a CS teaching assistant and creator of several successful online communities, this series will introduce PHP and help you get started with this exciting technology. This series is targeted at beginners, so don’t be afraid to come and learn something new, even if you haven’t touched web development before. Classes will begin the week ending in February 13, but the exact day and time will be determined by responses to the sign-up form. We will be following up with more advanced classes later in the semester.
This series will consist an hour-long meeting once a week for 5 weeks, moving from the basics to the intermediate topics. While it is not mandatory to attend every class, and there is no grading or homework, we strongly encourage you to come to each session, as they build upon each other. Please fill out the sign-up form to get started, and let us know what schedule works best for you.
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Hi Georgia Techies,
If you’d ever like to get an external speaker to speak on PHP at one of your TechTopic meetings, please let me know!
I’ve been working with PHP for almost a decade now, and regularly speak at Atlanta PHP and PHP-related conferences. I have also recently published my first article in php|architect Magazine. I’d love to get involved with the GA Tech ACM community as much as possible!
Please feel free to reach out anytime.
Brian DeShong
brian@deshong.net
http://www.deshong.net/