Optimize Your Career Potential with Video Tutorials for Web Developers

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Perhaps the greatest career challenge any developer faces is the need to continuously learn new technologies quickly in order to stay competitive in an ever-changing industry. Web developers must be adept with programming languages and tools such as HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, Perl, content management systems (e.g., Joomla and Drupal), Ruby on Rails, Ajax, and more. The courses and training required to keep one's skills sharp and current cost up to $3,000.00 per week. When you add in travel expenses and the inefficiency of being off-site, the cost of optimizing your career potential is quite expensive indeed!

The publishing imprints of Pearson Education, which include the trusted brands of Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, Sams, Que, Cisco Press, IBM Press and Exam Cram, now offer video training products for Web and software developers that combine hands-on, task-oriented, interactive curriculum designed by renowned industry experts and author-trainers with the affordability and convenience of the video tutorial format. Employing a combination of screen capture footage (screencasts), video, and animation on DVD together with a book or printed courseware accompaniment, Pearson's video training products deliver a complete hands-on learning solution comprised of structured lab exercises which build competence and foster retention.

To date, Pearson has published thirty-two video products within these two series, and will release seven to ten more by December 2009. "Innovation in education and student achievement is the core value on which the Sams Teach Yourself and LiveLessons video series are built," says Editor-in-Chief, Mark Taub.

Although affordability and efficiency are clear advantages of video learning, having instant access to a world leading expert and best-selling author at one's fingertips cannot be understated. Sams Teach Yourself and LiveLessons video training afford developers and programmers a never-before-available opportunity to train alongside the masters who have shaped their fields without having to leave their home or office.

Opportunities include:

• Learn JavaScript from Paul Deitel who has trained for leading organizations such as Cisco, IBM and Sun Microsystems.
  
  
• Learn Python from Wesley Chun, creator of a number of famous applications for Yahoo!.
  
  
• Learn Perl from Peter J. Scott, builder of applications for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  
  
• Learn Joomla with veteran expert Barrie North of Joomlashack.com.
  
  
• Learn how to build dynamic user-driven websites in Ruby with expert Aurelius Prochazka.
  
  
• And more…

Sams Teach Yourself and LiveLessons videos can be purchased at leading retailers and bookstores, or online directly via Informit.com. Users can also access the videos and related books and tutorials through Safari Books Online. Look for the titles to be available on Amazon's video-on-demand service later this year.