Wednesday, May 4, 2011

John Resig, jQuery creator, joining Khan Academy

By Vasudev Ram - http://www.dancingbison.com

John Resig, the creator of jQuery, the widely used JavaScript library, is joining Salman Khan's (*) Khan Academy, which develops free online courses and videos for various topics.

(*) Not the Indian movie star of the same name :-) This Salman Khan lives and works in the US, though he does have a partly Indian background.

Resig earlier worked for around 4 years for Mozilla. He's going to work full time on leading the open source and JavaScript efforts of the Khan Academy, according to his blog post (linked below).

John Resig: http://ejohn.org/about/

jQuery: http://jquery.com/

Khan Academy: http://www.khanacademy.org/

Mozilla: http://www.mozilla.org/

Here is John Resig's blog post about this news:

http://ejohn.org/blog/next-steps-in-2011/

(*) jQuery users include Google, Dell, Bank of America, Major League Baseball, Digg, NBC, CBS News, Netflix, Technorati, Mozilla, Wordpress, Drupal, according to the jQuery site.

I had blogged recently about Salman Khan and his Khan Academy, here:

Bill Gates' favorite teacher, Sal Khan:

http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2011/04/bill-gates-favorite-teacher-sal-khan.html


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- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises

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