What would you suggest for programming training

["Anyone Else, 2012"]

venues? I have a chance to go to a training course, seminar, etc. Pretty much whatever I choose. My job involves AS3, javascript, SQL, HTML

Here's the thing. I come from an electrical engineering background. I have been mostly self-taught on the subjects above for about 3 years. I did attend an AS3 course in Boston a couple of years ago which helped a great deal.

In being mostly self taught I wonder about my style of programming (efficiency, use of functions, etc).

From this, I am looking for training suggestions. What type of courses have you attended that have really helped you?

[Eddie Lee H.]

Everyone's style of programming is different, there is no good or bad style that I can think of. What is bad is software managers and bosses that have a couple of "genius" programmers they put up a pedestal, they write the worst code in the long run. Managers like them, no they love them, because in the short run they are fast and "appear" to be software geniuses. They are fast because they don't take the time to design & plan their code. It should take way more time to plan the code and organize it on paper and have others review the documentation before you ever start writing any code. Unplanned code will take teams of people a lot more time to FIX later, and even after it is fixed it is still bad unplanned code.

As an Electrical Engineer you have a good base to work from, you already know how to design and plan a project before you implement. Find a course that is heavy on design.