lynda.com’s New Programming Courses Aim to Accelerate Web Development Skills
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lynda.com’s New Programming Courses Aim to Accelerate Web Development Skills

New Courses Break Down the Coding Language Barrier for Users Interested in Front-End Development

CARPINTERIA, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — April 25, 2014lynda.com, an online education company, today announces a new wave of front-end development and programming courses designed to teach members how to quickly and easily develop complex web applications. Web development skills are in high demand among employers, so the new tutorials are especially useful for college grads and those looking to expand their careers or launch new ones in software engineering. One of the recently released courses shows how to teach coding to children, giving them a competitive edge on the next generation’s job market.

New courses include:

Up and Running with AngularJS with Ray Villalobos

Building applications is no longer reserved for experienced coders. In this course, full-time lynda.com author and programming veteran Ray Villalobos helps beginner and advanced coders develop single-page web applications fast using AngularJS. Ray shows users how to understand the practical uses of AngularJS with a directory search project—a traditional type of web app you can add to your existing sites. Learn the simple way to build your own complex web application.

Up and Running with CoffeeScript with Ray Villalobos

CoffeeScript allows front-end developers to write JavaScript more beautifully and efficiently. This course teaches the best features from the CoffeeScript language, as well as how to write common JavaScript commands more effectively using CoffeeScript. Author Ray Villalobos also shows how to work with Gulp.js, a streaming build system for not only CoffeeScript, but also Sass, LESS, JavaScript, and CSS.

Starting at just $25 a month, memberships give access to over 116,000 videos in more than 2,500 courses — with an average of 15 new courses released each week across a variety of categories. Some of the latest courses include the following:

Web

Business

Audio + Music

About lynda.com

lynda.com is an online education company that helps anyone learn software, technology, creative and business skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Through individual, corporate, academic and government subscriptions, members have unlimited access to the lynda.com video library of engaging, top-quality courses taught by recognized industry experts. The company also provides German-, French- and Spanish-language content under the video2brain brand name. Learn more about the lynda.com story at www.lynda.com/press and on Facebook at  www.facebook.com/lynda.



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