No wonder they contacted me all the way from Cali…
Yahoo! is training front end developers to fill their staffing needs…
The Harvard Of JavaScript Training (Yahoo! Developer Network blog)
When you think of prestigious law schools, it’s Harvard. Computer Science? Maybe MIT or Carnegie Mellon. When it comes to front end engineering though, Yahoo! Juku may be the best bet. Taught largely by our in-house front end pros, including YUI developers Nate Koechley, Yahoo! Juku Nicholas Zakas, and Thomas Sha, and JSON inventor Doug Crockford, Yahoo! Juku is a comprehensive, 3-6 month program to train professional front end developers. The curriculum includes advanced topics in JavaScript, DOM, HTML, CSS, YUI, performance, and accessibility.
Why train raw recruits to this degree? Well, in the San Francisco Bay Area, including the Silicon Valley, it’s hard-as-heck to find good front end programmers and web designers. Things aren’t as crazy as in 1999, when many companies seemed to grab random people off the street to do front end development, but top talent is still scarce. The first class of 13 Juku graduates will toss their hats into the air on December 14th!
Dear Yahoo! You don’t need to go to all that trouble… just open a Boston office or let me telecommute and I’m all yours! I’ll even give up “Plain Old JavaScript” and hitch my wagon to YUI full time! That’s dedication.