The summer is the time when I brush up on old skills or take the plunge and develop new ones. The plan for this summer was to initially focus all of my time on Objective C and iOS app development. That was until Apple announced that they were migrating to a new programing language called Swift. Since the info on Swift is still in the preliminary stages I will now either brush up on my mobile responsive design and JavaScript animation or try and tackle Ruby on Rails. I am leaning towards the responsive design and JavaScript because it would better prepare me to finally get started with PhoneGap and cross-platform application development.
The training materials that I will be using for baseline instruction are all from Noble Desktop. I have been using their workbooks for years and love them. In my nearly 30 year career as a technologist, designer and now educator, I can easily say that Noble Desktop has the absolute best course materials of any of the technical schools I have attended. The amount of research and insight that they put into the development of their curriculum is evident on every page of their workbooks. It is the main reason why I return to Noble when I need to master new subjects.