What is a secure password? It needs to be LONG. That’s it. Not necessarily weird characters or even mixing in numbers (though this does help somewhat–and is required by most sites). A good rule of thumb is at least 10 characters in length. Anything above 15-20 characters is effectively unbreakable. Read More …
Author: Prof Ammons
Mobile App Development
Mobile Application Developer Certificate Program at NOVA Course(s) currently available This post is a work-in-progress..so some of it is very rough, some without complete sentences or thoughts. Feel free to comment and critique as it progresses, though. There are effectively only two platforms left on the market for the average Read More …
Transfer fairs (Oct 29-31)
Transfer fair – many colleges attending: Tuesday, October 29th Loudoun Campus – HEC Event Center Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 30th Alexandria Campus – AFA Basketball Court Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Annandale Campus – CE Gymnasium Time: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Manassas Campus – Read More …
Wed 10/23 – GovCon Job and Internship Fair!
We 10/23 – the GovCon Job and Internship Fair! This special hiring event is limited to government contractors and agencies on: Wednesday October 23, 2019 at Loudoun campus, HEC from 10:00am – 2:30pm. The companies recruiting students for jobs and internships who are primarily in Information and Engineering Technologies degree Read More …
General IT (ITE115)
Website Project Intro: Styles, Classes, Bootstrap, Links/Menu, Images Intro to HTML Forms JavaScript Example (kind of bumbling…but it might be helpful :)) Another, somewhat shorter intro to HTML Forms Grader Projects Using MS-Access on a Mac Access Ch. 2 – Grader Project – Help TIA Chapter Lectures Chapter 02 – Read More …
Community College
Community colleges serve two equally important, but different (and sometimes highly divergent) goals. Provide an inexpensive and effective general academic education that a student can use as a springboard to a four-year university. Provide effective and market-relevant vocational training for students who (a) do not want to attend a four-year Read More …
My Basic Rules of Teaching
First, all opinions are my own and do not reflect the position of anyone else and certainly not the institution(s) for which I teach/work. Monkey See, Monkey Do…and Monkey Maybe Learn KISS – Keep It Simple, Stupid (I’d sub “for Students” in place of “Stupid”) Don’t be a dick – Read More …