Four Easy Steps to Master HTML5 A new friend of mine who’s studying engineering in India asked me how to get a job at Facebook or Google. I’m providing this answer here because many people can benefit from hearing this. Even more important than having a good grasp of English, you need to master HTML5, the web’s “Lingua Franca,” or the “de facto” language. The four steps are as follows: Step 1: You can start by learning HTML on your own. It’s easy. Just navigate to codeacademy/ and start learning HTML5. Step 2: To master any language, you need to immerse yourself in that language and use it every opportunity you have. When you feel you have a good grasp of the basics by completing all the courses available under Step 1, go to the library and to bookstores that allow you to use their books and read all the HTML5 books that you can--one after the other until every HTML5 code is familiar to you. Use what you learn to create as many websites as you can. Step 3: Check out the award-winning websites around the Internet in order to see and understand why they are above the rest. Step 4: Go to Udacity and enroll in their free HTML5 certificate course. Make sure you complete the HTML5 course at the very top of the class. That course was provided by Google itself. And you need to be at the very top of the class in order to get a shot at working at either Google or Facebook. The deal that Google has with Udacity is that they get employees and interns out of this. Google gets the first dip—otherwise known as the “crème de la crème.” Furthermore, Google and Udacity have found in the past that the top students in those classes compete favorably with the top students at leading U.S. institutions. Very often the top students in Udacity’s classes had no access to leading U.S. education institutions for various reasons—geography, demography, and opportunity. Sometimes the reason for their inability to penetrate these areas was just cultural. In this particular course, which is available to anyone for free, extraordinarily talented students or those who are willing to work extremely hard can learn something very important, some skill, and then they become highly employable. Udacity has directly placed several dozen students in jobs, but they know of hundreds of people who found jobs with their certificates. And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 22:35:21 +0000
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