Course Credits and References

Course Author

Daniel Brown has been working in technology and education for over 15 years. His work includes classroom teaching from public schools to university and corporate courses, as well as working in IT departments as a developer, system administrator, network administrator, and security administrator. In addition to holding a B.A. and M.A., he has numerous certifications in teaching, software, hardware, and network security. As a writer, he has authored and co-authored dozens of coursebooks, educational books, and articles. His writing has received recognition from the British Council in innovative writing. He currently is focused on technical writing on a wide variety of topics. 

Course Instructor With over 25 years experience in programming applications in nearly every language available, there just isn't a programming problem I haven't yet encountered or couldn't easily solve with enough persistence--or at the very least, provide a clever work around. Anything is possible! Particularly with programming software. With a liberal arts background and graduate work in Computing, Technology, and Education, I'm in a unique position to help bridge the gap for non-technical users to understand programming and technology without getting too heavy-handed in the tech jargon.

Course Developer Ben Brumm is a software consultant, advanced application programmer and a certified Oracle expert. He has been successfully consulting and teaching software applications, programming, and database development for over 10 years. After receiving his Bachelor of Computing with a specialty in Databases and Java, he went onto complete several IT diplomas in software and website development, before starting his own successful consulting business (DWS Consulting). He has performed comprehensive work for business intelligence reporting, telecommunications and financial models.