Orjan

Hello there. I'm unemployed as previous stated.

Now I'm going to tell you a bit of the opportune to get educated by governmental funds here in Sweden, and especially in the IT area. I can read programming, actually. Web programming. Then they offer MCSE certification, in windows 2000, outdated ages ago, so I believe I can't trust that the crash course in programming is more updated than 1990's. Web development and programming with HTML 3.0, I'm afraid. I guess they've never heard of PHP. How should someone who takes these courses be able to get a job today, 2009?

I believe that a updated education on web programming today should cover this:

#1: HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.1, CSS 3.0, JavaScript, AJAX
#2: PHP, MySQL, Apache 1.x & 2.x
#3: ASP.NET, C#.NET, MS-SQL, IIS

If you get a good knowledge in these "languages" and understand how to really use them, I believe you can get a great job. Anything else would be less interesting.

I hope that the managers of the unemployment educational business understand that courses needs to be updated every single year to have people educated in what’s new.

I don’t know how other countries handles education of unemployed, but I believe it’s a good thing and great if they actually can provide contemporary educations in the industries in largest need of employees

For my own part, I’d say I’m pretty good at PHP & MySQL, I know HTML 4.01, I am familiar with MS-SQL , but the rest is new to me, But I think it would be a good thing to learn. JavaScript and AJAX is close, and I think that with more and more of Web 2.0, JavaScript is more and more important to learn, unless you can use some Java toolkits that uses Java and compiles it into JavaScript, but then I can’t do Java either, more than maybe the basic syntax, but I have whatsoever knowledge of the huge libraries and what I can do with them.

Do you think this is a reasonable plan of a course in web programming today?