Programming Classroom News

Permanently Reducing Prices

Joel Marcey — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:19:26 +0000

Since launching Programming Classroom, we have had many sales where a customer could get a substantial percentage off the listed price of one of our e-courses. Rarely, has anyone paid full price.

That said, we have received plenty of constructive feedback regarding the pricing of our e-courses. The crux of that feedback centered around our prices vs. what is available for free on the internet. Our e-courses are of high quality, and we certainly believe that given we offer a 10-day Money Back Guarantee on an online product. But, after consideration, we do appreciate where that feedback has its validity.

After much thought and discussion, we have decided to permanently reduce our prices by approximately 50% across the board. In addition to the sales and promotions that we will continue to offer, we are convinced that you will not find e-courses on programming that has a better quality/price ratio.

We hope you agree. Please, check it out!

Programming Classroom Has Been Remodeled – Celebration Time

Joel Marcey — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 18:26:47 +0000

As you might have realized, Programming Classroom has undergone major cosmetic reconstruction. With a more modern, crisp, clean interface, our hope is that the aesthetics of the site will be eye pleasing; and thus allow the quality of the seminars that we offer to be seen even more.

With the launch of our remodeled home comes two pretty nice surprises:

Everything is 35% off, across the board. Not just new products. Everything. Just use the coupon code RELAUNCH at checkout
We are having a special promotion. From now until the middle of March, if you either follow us on Twitter -or- provide us feedback on our site, products or things you would like to see -or- both, you will be entered to win a bundle of 5 seminars. Check out the details here.

We hope you enjoy the new site and the seminars we have to offer. Don’t forget that we offer free tips as well. Let us know what you think!

P.S. If you want to compare our new look, with our old look, click here for the front page of our old site. None of the links work, but it gives you an idea of where we were and where we are. I say there is no comparison.

Book: The C# Programming Language

Joel Marcey — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:14:36 +0000

The principle designers of the C# language (Anders Hejlsberg, Mads Torgersen, Scott Wiltamuth, and Peter Golde) have produced a third edition of their popular book, “The C# Programming Language”. Addison-Wesley, 2009, ISBN 978-0-321-56299-9.

This edition maps directly to V3 of Microsoft’s Visual C# compiler (http://www.microsoft.com/express/download/), and covers the features added in that release: query operators, compact lambda expressions, extension methods, and runtime access to expression trees.

Although V2 was standardized through Ecma (http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecma-334.htm) and then through ISO, the new features for V2 were simply added to the standard as separate chapters. However, the 3rd edition of the book not only contains the new V3 materials, it also integrates the V2 material into the appropriate chapters. This book is a must-have for all serious C# programmers.

New Course Available – Microsoft Windows 32-bit API

Joel Marcey — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:08:05 +0000

Annoucing the availability of a new course: Microsoft Windows 32-bit API. This course presents information about the various components of the Win32 API, from memory allocation and management to events and semaphores. Graphical User Interface components are not covered in this course.

Here are some of the subjects covered in this course:

Memory Allocation and Management
Handling API Errors
Objects and Handles
Processes and Threads
Mutexes
Events
Semaphores
File Mapping
Pipes
Internationalization
….and more

You can purchase the course with example source code, the course only or the example source code only.

We have created a new category of courses called Win32. We expect to launch more courses in this category in the near future.

Enjoy!!

Programming Classroom Is Open For Business

Joel Marcey — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 15:00:28 +0000

Hello, and welcome to Programming Classroom. Thank you for visiting. After months of planning, we are finally open for business. Our hope is that you will find this site useful for your programming language learning needs. Not only are we selling top quality learning materials, we currently have a selection of free tips and downloads available. And we are planning other features as well. So subscribe to this news feed and follow Programming Classroom on Twitter (@progclassroom) in order to keep current on all the happenings and specials here.

Speaking of specials, during our grand opening, everything (that is not free already) is 30% off. Use coupon code H1BWR4W as you are checking out.

Here are some of the pages you might want to visit:

Seminars for sale: C#, C++, Java, VB, C
Free Tips
Feedback and/or support

Oh, and don’t forget to see some of the News stories we have already posted here as well.

Thank you again for visiting and we hope you find Programming Classroom a useful tool in your programming toolbox.

Free Availability of Certain ISO/IEC Standards

Joel Marcey — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:47:08 +0000

For the most part, ISO and IEC standards are only available for purchase (from ISO and IEC directly, or via their National Body members). However, some Standards and Technical Reports, and corrections and/or amendments to these, are available for downloading free of charge from http://standards.iso.org/ittf/PubliclyAvailableStandards/index.html.

Standardization of Ruby

Joel Marcey — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:46:13 +0000

A standard for the Ruby language and library is being drafted by the Information-Technology Promotion Agency, Japan (www.ipa.jp). Both English and Japanese-language versions are planned. It is expected that this specification will be adopted as a Japanese national standard by the end of 2010, and that, soon after, it will be Fast Tracked to ISO/IEC JTC 1, where it will be assigned to SC 22. The Fast-Track process takes a minimum of a year from submission to publication as an ISO/IEC standard.

ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC22

Joel Marcey — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:43:10 +0000

Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22 (abbreviated as SC 22) oversees the standards for programming languages and environments, that have been published jointly by ISO (www.iso.ch) and IEC (www.iec.ch). SC 22 meets at an annual Plenary to review the progress of its work. This year’s meeting was held in Delft, the Netherlands, on September 31 and October 1. The Chair of SC 22 is Rex Jaeschke (rex@RexJaeschke.com). Plenary attendees are delegates authorized by National Body (NB) members.
The technical work of SC 22 is done by its Working Groups (WGs), which are, as follows:

WG4 – COBOL
WG5 – Fortran
WG9 – Ada
WG11 – Binding Techniques
WG14 – C
WG16 – ISLisp
WG17 – Prolog
WG19 – Formal Specification Languages
WG21 – C++
WG23 – Programming Language Vulnerabilities

Standards developed outside SC 22, but submitted to it via some external process, and published by ISO and IEC, include the languages C#, ECMAScript, Forth, and Mumps/M, and the platforms CLI (a subset of Microsoft’s .NET), Linux Standards Base, and POSIX.

Programming Classroom Private Beta Underway

Joel Marcey — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:27:20 +0000

Greetings from Programming Classroom!

If you are seeing this post, then you are part of the private beta for Programming Classroom. Thank you for helping us out. Your work will be pivotal in a successful public beta and/or full public launch.

Please test the site as stated in the Beta Testing Agreement and provide as much helpful feedback if you can — even if it is just positive

If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us.