EXCO Web Development and Design Workshop

Title of Course: EXCO Web Development and Design Workshop

Facilitators: Seth Viebrock, Eli Meyerhoff

Seth's Email: seth2@viebrock.us
Seth's Phone: 612.387.4302

Class Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm

Class Dates: Every other Tuesday (starting June 16th)

Place: 3144 Fremont Ave S, Minneapolis, MN (Uptown) Please use the side door, the class will be held downstairs.

Course description: This is a workshop developed with an internship mindset: participants will gain professional web development experience in Drupal, PHP, CSS, and HTML, helping to improve EXCO’s website and general technological efficiency as an organization. Participants will learn about open source software, version control, collaboration methodologies, UNIX, and improve their skill in web technologies and design. PREREQUISITES: Participants without prior, solid HTML and CSS knowledge should concurrently enroll in Chris Mason’s Introduction to HTML class. Failing that, participants should come with extreme motivation and willingness to do catch-up work and studies at home. Graphic design knowledge may come in handy but is not a prerequisite. The course website will be at www.flossclass.com. As time permits we will schedule “hackathons” to work on projects together in a group, and otherwise participants are encouraged to volunteer time outside of class to work on tasks and projects.

Class size: Minimum ____3_____ Maximum ____15_____

What experience do you bring to this class?

I have over two years professional and 3.5 non-professional years’ experience in programming, and am currently an Associate Software Engineer at Digital River. I’ve been doing web design since 1996 after starting a small business in the field, bringing an internet presence to many companies in the Saint Croix Valley of Wisconsin. I am an active member in the Perl community, currently helping to organize a bid for the national Perl conference (YAPC::NA) in Minneapolis in 2010. I’m approaching one year of teaching programming for EXCO, speak seven human languages with varying fluency, taught French conversation groups at Macalester for two years, and worked at Concordia Language Villages for several years, all of which aid in my teaching ability in the languages of programming and design. I’ve studied learning and behavior both at Macalester and the University of MN as a Psychology student and lab manager, and am interested in collaboration both in learning and in production/development.