For years I have been teaching programming courses of various varieties at Langara College, as part of their Electronic Media Design program . The course I teach is great - I get to introduce programming to groups of designers over 14 weeks, starting with Processing and moving into ActionScript. The problem is, this course is only available as part of the full-time EMD program. I
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