Introduction to Web Technologies
Taught by Jonathan Soma
Soma was born in the South, is what someone from the North would say. He co-founded the Brainery, is the sciencey half of Masters of Social Gastronomy, and plans on getting married to Waffle House. In his more droll moments he is a tragic sellout to higher ed as a professor of data journalism at Columbia University's journalism school.
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Most of us work about 6 inches from a computer all day, but we don't really know what that whole Internet thing is actually made up of.
Databases! API's! PHP! CSS! jQuery! Servers! HTTP! SSL certificates! HTML5! Ruby on Rails! Web Applications! I will use all those words and more. Learn the pros and cons of different technologies, and what's just more hip.
Impress your boss and intimidate your coworkers with your newfound knowledge of How It All Works, and What It All Means. Get high-fives from people wearing glasses by talking about cloud computing, and score points with designers by pontificating on the box model!