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		<title>Introduction</title>
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		<title>Goals</title>
		
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			<title>Goals of Class</title>
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					<para>Learn the basics of Computer Programming</para>
				</listitem>
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					<para>Familiarization with Visual Basic .NET</para>
				</listitem>
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					<para>Determine your interest in the field</para>
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			<title>Goals of Professor</title>
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					<para>Help you learn</para>
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					<para>Bring industry knowledge into the classroom</para>
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		<title>About Kevin Nilson</title>
		
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			<title>Who Am I?</title>
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				<title>Background</title>
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					<para>Born in Carbondale, Illinois</para>
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					<para>BS in Computer Science, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC), 2001</para>
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					<para>Minor in Math, SIUC 2001</para>
				</listitem>
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					<para>Moved to St. Louis for career in 2001</para>
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					<para>MS in Computer Science, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville (SIUE), 2004</para>
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					<para>Moved to Silicon Valley in July 2005</para>
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			<title>Certifications</title>
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				<title>Currently Hold</title>
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					<para>Sun Certified Web Component Developer for J2EE Platform
						(CX-310-080) - Servlet, Jsp, JavaBean, Custom Taglibs, Design
						Patterns </para>
				</listitem>
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					<para>Sun Certified Programmer for the Java 2 Platform 1.4
						(CX-310-035) - Core Java</para>
				</listitem>
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					<para>Oracle Exam #1Z0-007 Introduction to Oracle9i: SQL SQL</para>
				</listitem>
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				<title>Working towards</title>
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					<para>Sun Certified Developer for Java 2 Platform, Standard
						Edition(CX-310-252A, CX-310-027, CX-310-252R)</para>
				</listitem>
				<listitem>
					<para>Sun Certified Enterprise Architect for the Java 2 Platform,
						Enterprise Edition (CX-310-051, CX-310-300A,
						CX-310-061)</para>
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			<title>Jobs</title>
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					<para>Pfizer</para>
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						<listitem>
							<para>St. Louis, MO (remote from Mountain View, CA)</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para>Java, JSP, Servlet, Struts, Spring, Swing, EJB,
								Oracle</para>
						</listitem>
					</itemizedlist>
				</listitem>
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					<para>Northrop Grumman</para>
					<itemizedlist id="ngdetial">
						<listitem>
							<para>O'Fallon, IL</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para>Java, JSP, Servlet, Struts, EJB, Oracle</para>
						</listitem>
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					<para>SBC</para>
					<itemizedlist id="sbcdetial">
						<listitem>
							<para>St. Louis, MO</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para>Java, JSP, Servlet, EJB, Oracle</para>
						</listitem>
					</itemizedlist>
				</listitem>
				
				<listitem>
					<para>US Postal Service</para>
					<itemizedlist id="postaldetial">
						<listitem>
							<para>St. Louis, MO</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para>ASP, Visual Basic, C/C++, Oracle, Java</para>
						</listitem>
					</itemizedlist>
				</listitem>
				
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					<para>Core Institute</para>
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							<para>Carbondale, IL</para>
						</listitem>
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							<para>Grad Assistantship</para>
						</listitem>
						<listitem>
							<para>Visual Basic (VBA), PL/SQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access</para>
						</listitem>
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			<title>Open Source</title>
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				<listitem>
					<para>JAbook</para>
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						<listitem>
							<para>Java LDAP Addressbook Front-End</para>
						</listitem>
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			<title>Why is the professor so tired?</title>
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			<title>Andy Nilson</title>
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					<para>1 Year old</para>
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		<title>How was this presentation made?</title>
		
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			<title>DocBook</title>
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				<para>What is XML?</para>
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			<listitem>
				<para>What is XSLT?</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>What is XSL-FO?</para>
			</listitem>
			<listitem>
				<para>What is DocBook?</para>
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		<para> According to the official DocBook web site,</para>
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			<attribution>DocBook.org</attribution>
			<para> 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). </para>
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