So we all know about my list of things I need to learn for Web Design that I’ve got listed in the sidebar over to the right. I’ve decided to go from the bottom of the list to the top of the list, so here I am, getting ready to actually start learning HTML5. Mind you, I’m doing this completely on my own, while still going to school for business management.
The funny thing is, I spoke with a friend who is taking Web Design from her local community college and she said that in order to graduate with a Web Design degree, she has to learn Flash, JQuery, PHP, ASP, CGI/Perl, AJAX, JavaScript, HTML4.01, XHTML, HTML5, CSS, and CSS3. Plus she said it was suggested by her adviser that she take a class the college offers in working with Microsoft Silverlight as well. So why is it that my school felt it was perfectly fine to toss us out into the world with a degree in Web Design with nothing more than two classes on “web design” and one class on JavaScript?
Honestly, after hearing all the skills that others are being told they have to learn to get their degrees in Web Design, and all the money I spent for the little I was taught, I feel cheated. I mean, honestly, I didn’t learn much in those classes – I was actually advanced beyond my Web Design classes skill-wise in the first place. The only class that was any challenge for me was the JavaScript class. So what exactly did I pay the school about $24,000 for? Yeah, that’s a darn good question right there. *sigh*
$24k for two classes on web-design and one on JS? Yeaaaah, I would feel cheated as well.
On the bright-ish side, learning HTML5 can be all kinds of fun. …Well, I think so, anyway. So many things to tinker with, I absolutely love it. Still, self-taught is not looked on as well as “traditionally” taught skills. :\
Well, $24K for all the gen eds, a programming class, networking class, Photoshop class, Web Design 1, Web Design 2, Web Systems (aka JS class), and Internet Concepts (aka this is your browser and what it does, this is e-mail and how it works). I get the need for the general ed classes, and I can sort of see the programming class as a pre-req for the JS class.
But TWO web design classes and BOTH require me to create a website using a TABLES layout, XHTML, and CSS with no mention of CSS3 or HTML5 unless I brought it up in discussion questions. UGH >.<
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