Introduction

Goals

2. Goals of Class
3. Goals of Professor

Goals of Class

  • Learn the basics of Computer Programming

  • Familiarization with Visual Basic .NET

  • Determine your interest in the field

Goals of Professor

  • Help you learn

  • Bring industry knowledge into the classroom

About Kevin Nilson

5. Who Am I?
6. Certifications
7. Jobs
8. Open Source
9. Why is the professor so tired?

Who Am I?

Background

  • Born in Carbondale, Illinois

  • BS in Computer Science, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), 2001

  • Minor in Math, SIUC 2001

  • Moved to St. Louis for career in 2001

  • MS in Computer Science, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE), 2004

  • Moved to Silicon Valley in July 2005

Certifications

Currently Hold

  • Sun Certified Web Component Developer for J2EE Platform (CX-310-080) - Servlet, Jsp, JavaBean, Custom Taglibs, Design Patterns

  • Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4 (CX-310-035) - Core Java

  • Oracle Exam #1Z0-007 Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL SQL

Working towards

  • Sun Certified Developer for Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition(CX-310-252A, CX-310-027, CX-310-252R)

  • Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (CX-310-051, CX-310-300A, CX-310-061)

Jobs

Open Source

Why is the professor so tired?

Figure 1. Andy Nilson

Andy Nilson

1 Year old

How was this presentation made?

DocBook

  • What is XML?

  • What is XSLT?

  • What is XSL-FO?

  • What is DocBook?

According to the official DocBook web site,

 

DocBook is a general purpose XML and SGML document type particularly well suited to books and papers about computer hardware and software (though it is by no means limited to these applications).

 
 --DocBook.org