FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Boston, March 8, 2017 – Aquent Gymnasium is pleased to present Keeping Up with JavaScript is a Full-time Job, a live, online conversation with Gymnasium instructors Kevin Chisholm and Keith Peters on Thursday, March 20, at 2 pm. Our guests will discuss the challenges of keeping up with today’s ever-changing JavaScript landscape, when learning becomes a full-time job, and how to manage learning while having a full-time job.

This event is free to the public with limited registration. We encourage participants to register early.

JavaScript first appeared over twenty years ago, and since then it has become one of the most important languages on and off the web. Today’s JavaScript ecosystem, driven by sophisticated technologies, frameworks, and libraries, brings a new level of interaction and innovation to the web that exceeds the humble beginnings of the early days of JavaScript. Both Kevin and Keith provide an in-the-trenches perspective to navigating the JavaScript landscape.

About Kevin Chisholm

Kevin is a freelance front-end web developer who splits his time between New York and Florida and specializes in object-oriented JavaScript and AngularJS. Over the years, he has consulted and worked on websites for a number of notable companies including Consumer Reports, Time, People, Sports Illustrated, Travel and Leisure, ThisOldHouse.com, TDAmeritrade, and GreenMountainPower.com among others. Kevin is the instructor of the Gymnasium course JavaScript and jQuery Survival Guide.

About Keith Peters

Keith Peters is a developer based in Boston. He is the author of Playing with Chaos: Programming Fractals and Strange Attractors in JavaScript and Actionscript 3.0 Animation: Making Things Move. He is also co-author of HTML5 Animation with JavaScript and the Actionscript 3.0 Cookbook. Keith is the instructor of the Gymnasium course JavaScript Foundations.

About Instructor Jeremy Osborn

Jeremy is Academic Director of Aquent Gymnasium. Jeremy is the author of several well-reviewed and popular books on web technology and design software. He was recently featured on Jeffrey Zeldman’s podcast, The Big Web Show.

About Gymnasium

Aquent Gymnasium offers free, online courses for digital, creative and communications professionals to equip them with in demand skills and advance their careers.

Digital designers, front-end developers, and marketers all benefit from courses that consider diverse learning approaches and real-world problem solving from instructors who are at the top of their field.

We use job placement analytics as well as feedback from our clients to create courses that bridge the skills gap for companies who seek to take advantage of emerging technologies and remain competitive.

Why free? Lifelong learning is central to Aquent’s cultural values and finds its way into almost all of our business strategies. Because we’ve always known that there is a clear connection between learning and career advancement, Gymnasium was created to serve both talent and client in meeting the demand for skilled professionals. To date, hundreds of newly-certified professionals have been placed in roles with our clients.

Browse our course catalog and find out more at thegymnasium.com

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