Perl course coming in March. The company has exclusive agreements with several best-selling authors and technology firms to provide professional and personal skills curricula which DigitalThink customizes for Web delivery. A Perl course and Preparation for the Sun Certification as a Java Programmer will be available in March. Courses in Visual Cafe, Visual Basic, Client-Server Application Development, and UNIX Programming and System Administration will be available in the second quarter of 1997. The key is having curricula from respected instructors and then aggressively leveraging the advantages of customized Web delivery.
Tutors are often available in real-time.
To quickly reinforce learning, all programming courses let users have a compiler in a split screen while the course is being taken. Because of the extensive detail involved, online instruction is supplemented by texts or manuals created by the course author. Multimedia courses provide instruction in Adobe's Photoshop and PageMaker and are taught by noted authors Deke McClelland and Robin Williams. Internet courses are taught by Williams and Adam Engst. Customers can take courses 24 hours a day from any Web connection worldwide.