Yep, it’s all coming to an end, after today, there will be no more Interactive Design at Capilano College. Our 20+ grads will be pushed into the real world for a month long practicum and then left into the wild forever. Almost all of us have practicums at places we only hope to score jobs at after, so you can imagine, we’re a little nervous.

Directed Studies Class

When most of us started this program we were Front-pager, Gimp hobbling n00bs, with little to no skills what-so-ever. Before I started at Cap, I didn’t even know CSS/XHTML, yes, I know, it’s sad. But a lot has changed since 2 years ago. We’ve logged dozens of all-nighters, 100’s of litres of monster ( yes, really ), 1000’s and 1000’s lines of code, and way too much caf chicken nuggets.

Peter Lanfear

Coming from a zero skillset, here’s just some of the things our class has come up with:

- MoStep by Curtis Dodd, a dance dance revolution for Mobile written in Flash lite.
- A network driven MP3 player by Sean Patterson written entirely in AS3.
- Interactive Wireframes by Jeremy Butler written entirely in Flash.
- Murray, a Band management tool in the works by Derek Kehler, written in Rails.
- Doomi, my to-do list application written in javascript and compiled in Adobe AIR.

There’s plenty more I’ve missed, but the point is we’ve come from having zero knowledge of the web, to building complex web applications with robust software.

Sean Patterson

So to all my INTE comrades, it’s been a pleasure working beside you guys for the past two years, good luck in the real world.

See you at the grad show,

JG