The author of the techno-thriller “Counting From Zero,” Alan Johnston, is set to be joined by co-author Dan Burnett in a bid to bring some new punch to the upcoming WebRTC School event with two new classes for the comprehensive learning experience. These classes will focus on two particular aspects of the WebRTC experience, and help provide a broader background in the field for those interested in getting in on the growing WebRTC phenomenon.
Burnett and Johnston wrote what was described as the first book on WebRTC—“WebRTC: APIs and RTCWEB Protocols of the HTML5 Real-Time Web”—and are now working with the WebRTC School to bring two training classes into the fold.
Johnston and Burnett's classes are the Certified WebRTC Integrator course, geared toward those who want to bring WebRTC into currently operational VoIP and video conferencing systems, and the Certified WebRTC Developer course, which provides Web developers and the like with the tools to add WebRTC functionality to various applications and currently existing websites. While the Certified WebRTC Developer course won't be available until later this month, the Certified WebRTC Integrator course is currently available. The certification part, meanwhile, will come in the form of online testing following the courses in question.
The WebRTC School itself, however, is part of a larger event set to take place at the upcoming WebRTC World and ITEXPO events, located at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino in Las Vegas August 26-29. At the event, which will feature a variety of different technologies on display and an equal variety of different speakers on various topics, the WebRTC School will run fully seven hours of lecture-style training featured by none other than Burnett and Johnston.
Topics set to be covered at the event, meanwhile, include not only a general overview of WebRTC itself, but also a closer look at media flows within the field—peer-to-peer and NAT traversal included—as well as the process of media handling APIs, the various media transmission APIs, signaling, security and privacy issues, and a complete walkthrough of some basic but actual code for WebRTC, including both client-side and server-side HTTP signaling. There's also a full look at interoperability and portability within the WebRTC field as a whole.
That's a lot of ground to cover in seven hours, but for those with an interest in WebRTC—especially in terms of developing for same—that's the kind of ground that's going to help get a new application launched or added to current systems. So for those eager to get a WebRTC operation up and running, hitting the WebRTC School may well be the idea that tips the scales in favor of a whole new way to use the growing platform that is WebRTC.
Edited by
Alisen Downey
