Thinking in XAML: Learning to program on the Universal Windows Platform
This class is for developers and teams starting work on the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) as their UI technology stack, and targeting Windows 10 as their user operating system. It stresses core concepts and helps students build a conceptual skeleton as their starting point for XAML development on the UWP: layout and composition concepts, data binding, templating, styling, and animation. The emphasis is on using XAML to create applications that help users enter, visualize, and locate the complex data in a modern business application.
The class can significantly reduce the time required for developers to gain the expertise for production quality work in XAML, and help them leverage the technology to produce software applications that are more productive, more intuitive, and contain more business value.
The class is taught by world-renowned XAML expert Billy Hollis, who has been teaching XAML classes since 2007. It is available in three-day, four-day, and five-day versions, with longer versions including more advanced technical topics, more exercises, and content on helping developers produce better user experiences.
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Three day core: $12,500 - Four day with added topics: $16,000 - Five day in depth: $19,500
Designing User Experiences: An Introduction for Non-Designers
As development teams transition to creation of modern apps, exposure to design concepts, principles, and processes can help the team produce results that are more compelling, more productive, and more likely to have a long shelf life in the modern apps era. Most developers have virtually no experience with UX design, and this class was created to be their entry point.
The class is suitable for just about anyone involved in software development: developers, their managers, business analysts, visual designers, and even corporate executives in companies that furnish substantial value through technology.
When going to a new platform, without guidance the typical development team will usually revert to producing the same sort of user experiences as they produced on older technology. This class can help your organization break from the past and do better. A common sentiment among teams who have had this class is “We don’t even think about software development the same way now.”
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Two day: $11,000 - Three day: $15,000 - Four day: $19,000 - Bonus day to evaluate your own application: $3,000 (available only with three or four day classes)
Thinking in XAML: Programming in Windows Presentation Foundation
This class is for developers and teams switching to Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) as their UI platform targeting any recent version of Windows. It stresses core concepts and helps students build a conceptual skeleton as their starting point for WPF development: layout and composition concepts, data binding, templating, styling, and animation. The emphasis is on using XAML to create applications that help users enter, visualize, and locate the complex data in a modern business application.
Previous clients have said that the class significantly reduced the time required for developers to gain the expertise for production quality work in XAML, and helped them leverage the technology to produce software applications that are more productive, more intuitive, and contain more business value.
The class is taught by world-renowned XAML expert Billy Hollis, who has been teaching XAML classes since 2007. It is available in three-day, four-day, and five-day versions, with longer versions including more advanced technical topics, more exercises, and content on helping developers produce better user experiences.
Click here for a detailed class description
Three day core: $12,500 - Four day with added topics: $16,000 - Five day in depth: $19,500
Inquire about an onsite training
Billy is available for XAML classes and/or design classes and workshops customized and held onsite for your organization. Classes are crafted to help developers and other non-designers embrace technologies and design concepts for modern applications. Past clients include several Fortune 100 companies. Click below to contact Billy for more information.
Find out more about Next Version Systems
Billy's primary work is software development. He and his partner Gary Bailey have been doing leading edge consulting on Microsoft technologies for over 12 years. The Next Version team is known for producing some of the most innovative business applications ever created on modern UI platforms.
Look at Billy's Pluralsight design course
If you can't get to a live event, you might want to take a look at Creating User Experiences: Fundamental Design Princples, a course with online training company Pluralsight. Click below for the course page.