Tech Classes in Washington, DC

Adobe Animate CC provides a comprehensive authoring environment for creating interactive and media-rich applications. Animate CC is widely used to create engaging projects integrating video, sound, graphics, and animation. You can create original content in Animate CC or import assets from other Adobe applications such as Photoshop or Illustrator....

As technology changes and more media outlets compete for customers’ time, providing an enjoyable experience is critical to both attracting and keeping users. This class aims to demystify UX by giving a practical and simple introduction to what UX is while also explaining some of its core concepts of usability. This is a field that affects all areas...

This 3 day course covers the fundamental components of the Ruby Programming Language. Emphasis is placed on the object oriented aspects of Ruby. Topics include arrays, hashes, regular expressions, io, exceptions, modules, and applications areas. Course Lessons: 1. An Introduction to Ruby 2. Standard Ruby Data Types 3. Language Components 4. Collections...

Successfully managing a project requires effective planning and adherence to the industry's best practices in every step of the process. By understanding the fundamentals of project management, you will be better prepared to initiate a project in your organization and position it for success. In this course, you will identify effective project management...

Unlock data-driven insights with code. During our Python-focused introductory workshop, you’ll learn to harness the power of an essential programming language for data scientists and use it to drive accurate business insights. Working with real-world examples, you’ll touch on fundamental Python programming techniques and tools and discuss Python's...

Step into the world of visual design with General Assembly. During this workshop, you'll explore the tools and techniques you can use to bring websites, marketing materials, and more to life. The goal of visual design is to communicate a specific message to a targeted audience – because of that designers can influence, inspire, and leave their mark...

In this 2-day course, students will learn how to create well-formed XML documents. In addition, you will learn about the most important supplementary technologies that support XML, including XML Schema for validation as well as XSLT for transformation. Knowledge Pre-Requisites: HTML5 & Cascading Style Sheets 3 Course Lessons: 1. Course...

Data visualizations help us compress and make decisions using data. It is often cited that we are trying to tell stories through them. Crafting stories with data requires us to be a visual designer, coder, statistician, and storyteller. It is both a science and an art. This workshop serves as an introduction to the visual and story techniques that...

In this 3-day JavaScript training course, students learn to use JavaScript effectively to make their web pages more dynamic and functional and to reduce the number of round-trips to the server. Students will learn JavaScript syntax, how to work with variables, learn write flow control logic, validate forms, create roll-over images, open and work with...

You’re full of ideas, but how do you know which are worth working on? In the first half of the workshop, you’ll learn how to use the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) philosophy to test and validate your ideas with the least amount of work required. The ultimate goal is to get to product/market fit. Take your idea and get moving in the right direction...

The AWS Fundamentals course is designed for technology enthusiasts who are working in IT (as an administrator, software developer, or manager), or any other interested individual who would like to learn about the core cloud services provided by AWS, such as: Information Technology practitioners and leaders who are new to AWS and who will be supporting...

SAFe® Scaled Agile Certification The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) helps businesses address the significant challenges of developing and delivering enterprise-class software and systems in the shortest sustainable lead time. It is a freely revealed, online knowledge base of proven success patterns, for people building the world’s most important...

This is a part time course.   In this course, students learn to build robust predictive models, test their validity, and clearly communicate resulting insights. Unit 1: Programming Basics What is Data Science Describe course syllabus and establish the classroom environment Answer the questions: "What is Data Science? What roles exist in...

This is a part time course.   JavaScript is one of the strongest weapons in an engineer's arsenal. It can run both in the browser and on servers and is quickly becoming the go-to language to power web and mobile apps. If you want to be a web developer, JavaScript is a must-know. Unit 1: Fundamentals of JavaScript Installfest Install and...

This is a part time course Unit 1: The Basics HTML Basics Apply HTML tags: <head>, <link>, <script>, <style>, <meta> to web pages Apply tags to HTML documents to effectively section content Differentiate between the various image file types Predict image paths and apply relative paths to img src tags Describe how...