Thursday, June 19, 2014

WIT Hour of Code

We had the opportunity to have a booth at this event! Thanks to all the people that talked with us here at the Adobe convention. There were a lot of technology company's there and it was awesome to see all the kids learning about technology!

Game Design Video

Here's a sneak peak into our game design course. We're offering this course the week of June 2nd and the week of July 14th.

Wednesday, June 18, 2014

May Free Class: Overstock & Website Setup

These pictures are from our May 3rd workshop. At this workshop we covered:
  • Domain Registration: where we showed them how to pick a domain and how to purchase it. 
  • DNS Settings: we talked about IP addresses and how they are related to domains.
  • Web Servers like Apache and how to set them up and restart them. 
We also heard from special guest, Seth Moore. He talked about their website and how they have a lot of programming going on behind the scenes to make it so when you search for an item you can find the best match to your search. He also talked about how they have millions of different pages for all the products they offer. He talked about how they just make a template site for each one and then they just have to add the new information about that specific product. He also talked about key words and how they use them when they are programming the search engine. He also explained how a majority of the programming is done in java. We had a great turn out and it was a lot of fun! Hope to see all of you at our next free class on June 28th, 2014 @ 1pm.