posted on Sunday, August 21, 2005 10:49 PM
by
thomasswilliams
The Shifting Sand Of Training Courses?
In the not-so-far future for me and the department I work in, there is a (potential) web-based project coming up that, if I am to develop it, will be written in ASP.NET/VB.NET. I mentioned to my boss that apart from a very simple 5-page ASP.NET application I wrote 3 years ago, I didn't really have much experience with the programming side of ASP.NET, although I'm pretty familiar with HTML/JavaScript (most of my development is done in Windows Forms).
He suggested I look for some training resources, and I found these couple of courses (I live near Melbourne, Australia, so the links reference info close by me):
Out of all of these, we reckon that the most appropriate is the "advanced" web development course. I am having trouble finding companies that actually run this course, though. Out of the places in Australia, as far as I know, that run this course (Monash, Aspect and dotNet Solutions), two are in Canberra and none of them can commit to firm dates as they require between 4 and 6 participants to run the course - if they don't get the numbers, they will cancel or postpone the course as late as 5 days before it is scheduled. This is difficult for me as I would have to arrange time off work (with my boss's blessing), travel and accomodation to attend interstate courses.
Is there no demand for training of this nature? Or is this the state of IT training at the moment? Or have I missed something?
So in the meantime, I will register my interest and be on standby to travel. But I will have to look around at some good books and just "jump in" to get up to speed on ASP.NET.