Kathy has been interested in learning theory since her days as a game designer for Virgin, MGM, and Amblin’, and a teacher of New Media Authoring at UCLA. She was a master Java trainer for Sun Microsystems, and she founded JavaRanch.com (now CodeRanch.com), which won Jolt Cola Productivity awards in 2003 and 2004.
In 2015, she won the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for her work creating skillful users and building sustainable communities.
Kathy’s recent focus has been on cutting-edge, movement science and skill acquisition coaching, known as ecological dynamics or “Eco-D.” Her work using Eco-D for training horses is ushering in a far, far more humane approach to horsemanship, causing delight for some (and sadly, consternation for others). Those fortunate (autonomous!) horses whose owners are using Kathy’s approach are happier, healthier, and more athletic than their fellows who are traditionally trained.
You can follow Kathy on Instagram: @pantherflows.
Before Bert was an author, he was a developer, specializing in old-school AI (mostly expert systems), real-time OSes, and complex scheduling systems.
In 2003, Bert and Kathy wrote Head First Java and launched the Head First series. Since then, he’s written more Java books, and consulted with Sun Microsystems and Oracle on many of their Java certifications. He’s also trained hundreds ...
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