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Udacity: Awesome Student Projects from Web Performance Optimization
The sample portfolio you'll optimize in class. I’m Cameron Pittman and I love helping you make better websites. A few weeks ago I launched my first Udacity course, Website Performance Optimization, powered by the expertise of Ilya Grigorik from Google. Today, I want to celebrate my amazing students and the awesome portfolio projects they’ve been optimizing.I taught high school physics and chemistry for four years and I miss being a high school teacher. There’s an intimacy in the classroom that isn’t possible online. I loved watching my students’ faces light up when new ideas clicked, and I loved seeing their scrunched faces tilt sideways when concepts didn’t make sense. I miss the immediate feedback. If (or rather when) I screwed up a lesson, I had a chance to make changes and try again a few minutes later.Online? It’s not quite the same (yet!).But! This is why I love Website Performance Optimization. I purposefully inserted a few questi…