Hi everyone, so I wanted to share a little bit about my first course on Backpack, which is the personal learning site that I'm building.

The name of the course is "Dynamic Site Generation with Markdown & Django". I actually wanted to call it "not another Django course," but the reason I didn't is because I actually think it's different from everything else you'll find out there.

This is a hands-on walk-through of how to create your own dynamic blog using Mark Down and Django together in a way that I haven't seen before.

Introduction

I'm extremely excited to be able to tell you about my next upcoming course, which is called Intelligent Product Design, currently in development. You can go to my website right now and pre-register for it. With any luck, it will be released around the beginning of August.

I finished my first week teaching on "Backpack", my new website. My first course is off the ground with a great cohort of learners. They get the course for free and are helping me improve it before I release it generally.

This wasn't really that different from teaching in the University. Some things I learned based on some really good conversations: