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I attended a 2 day training course in JavaScript and HTML5 in Manchester. I found I was in good company with a whole swathe of attendees being Flash Developers like myself, for a very nice change there was another girl on the course too!

I saw this course advertised a couple of months ago and was very keen to get on it and try some new technologies out!  Coming from a very flash based background I was keen to see what other technologies could produce some of the types of things I've been able to do in Flash.  I have used JavaScript a fair amount in the past, but mainly just implementing tried and tested code libraries that other people had created.  I was keen to get right into the guts and find out exactly what it was like myself!

The course was very fast paced as we raced through some lovely examples of using JavasScript in creative ways.  Just look at these pretty tree I made within about 2 hours of being there! 

I was very surprised to find out just exacly how much JavaScript is actually is like an early iteration of a flash language ActionScript 2.  I found myself very comfortable with the examples and quite exciting that here I was having most the skills already to take advantage of this other language!