Week six of school is now behind me, and with it should be the “Website Design” class, or like I’ve called it before, the very basic introduction to HTML. As I mentioned last week, I wasn’t exactly sure what was going on since we really weren’t getting any assignments. On Wednesday, which was technically the next to last day of the class, I emailed my instructor to see what was up. For better or for worse, that evening he gave my class two chapters worth of work. I guess that makes up for over a week of nothing.

While I highly doubt my classmates actually got the work done, I was easily able to finish it in about 9 hours spread over the weekend. It’s not like it was anything difficult, all it covered were links and tables. Yeah, real tough stuff. I’m disappointed that the class didn’t cover forms, CSS, JavaScript, or even mention HTML5. Granted, there isn’t a whole lot you can teach in three weeks (12 days), so maybe we will get into those areas further down the road. If not, this class was a total waste and pretty much useless if any of my classmates were looking into becoming a real web developer after graduation. Ahh well, at least it was an easy “A”. Now I just have to try and forget all the deprecated things that I learned in this class.

Next up “Introduction to Programming” otherwise known as Visual Basic. This should be real interesting for me, since I’ve never done anything in VB. Though I’m not expecting much of a challenge over the next three weeks.