Hello everyone. First let me apologize if this is the wrong area for this post, I did a search in several different areas and came up empty handed. Here is my question. I am looking for a more formal education in web design/development and I am looking toward the classes offered through the International Webmasters Association. I was wondering if anyone had any info on the organization. Thanks. http://iwanet.org/
Whether they actually teach you anything or not, no one in the industry (I assume you want the paper to get a job) gives their certs any credence. Another matter is whether you're right-brained or left-brained. You can do both design and development, but a good artist is a bad logician and a good logician is a bad artist, so you're not going to be good at both unless you're a very direct descendant of Leonardo, and I don't mean DiCaprio. I can't help you with art, but for development learn programming first. Whatever direction you head in you're going to be writing programs, and you can't do that until you learn how to do it. (Learning a programming language is no more learning programming than knowing English is being able to write like Shakespeare.) How do you learn programming? If you don't want to get a CS degree, get a copy of Wirth's "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs". It's probably the best programming course ever written. (No, I'm not Niklaus Wirth. I'm not even good enough to dream of being Niklaus Wirth. But I did use the book to teach programming for years.)