We believe in teaching tasks, not products or languages
Most other training organizations will break apart a programming language
and teach you features and facts. You learn how to do what the language or
product is advertised to do. Then when you are back on the job with a task
for which the language or product was specifically designed, you are in
luck.
At SIGNITEK, we teach tasks. This means we identify tasks and show you
what features are needed to accomplish such a task. This means we identify
and teach features from several tools if that is what is necessary to
complete the task.
We also teach what a language or product won't do. Sometimes this is more
important than what it will do. There is nothing more frustrating than
spending hours trying to identify the feature you need only to discover that
neither the training or the tool will help you and you need some other
additional tools.
A prime example would be teaching Java Script programming. Teaching Java
Script exclusively for Netscape is useful to those rare and privileged
individuals how know all their users are going to be using that browser
exclusively. For the rest of us creating public web sites, leaning features
exclusive to one brand of browser is not only useless, but perilous and
should be avoided. When creating a public web site, knowing that Netscape V4
is incapable of (for example) changing it's text color without rewriting the
entirety of the text is invaluable. If the training did not explain this you
may well would have (1) unknowingly used features exclusive to Microsoft
Internet Explorer, (2) discovered the problem later and spent hours trying
to do it on Netscape until (3) you discover it is not possible to do
efficiently for large amounts of text and you must either abandon your
efforts or completely restructure your application.
At SIGNITEK, we design your
training experience specifically to avoid such difficulties.
