How do I get signed up for Yahoo! Juku? I want to be taught by the best and I want to be the Count Dooku of front end engineering.

Well,but how can you access to this training?

Free? Paid? Available to the public? We want answers! :)

I'm also interested in this training. How do I sign up?

I'm also curious about this. All my knowledge on the topic, like most people who do what I do, seems to be informal; how did I learn Javascript? I taught myself. CSS? Again, taught myself. HTML? PHP? Web standards? All of it, by myself. I'm very interested how other people go about writing frontend web software.

Also, 'inventor' is probably the wrong relationship between Douglas Crockford and JSON. Crockford invented JSON as much as Adaptive Path invented AJAX. I think he's closer to the 'discoverer' of JSON, or maybe 'advocate' of JSON. Not to bash on Doug at all, I'm a huge fan, just making an observation.

Thanks, all, for your interest in the Juku Program. I'm Nick Fogler, the Program Manager. Juku trainees are hired as full Yahoo employees, and upon graduation move into Front End Engineering roles across the various Yahoo properties. The training is free, with the expectation that graduates will make great contributions as Web Developers during their tenure at Yahoo.

We will be hiring for several more classes in 2008, and welcome applicants who are passionate about Front End technology, have a solid technology background, and eager to learn. A computer science degree is not required, but highly recommended. If this sounds like you, send me your resume with an introductory note to juku at yahoo dash inc dot com.

Like other commenters, I'm wondering at the point of this post. Yahoo Developer's normally pretty good at not wasting the time of this blog's readers. The fact you offer Harvard-quality training on front-end web development to your own employees is pointless puffery.

You won't happen to be following in MIT's footsteps and be posting these lectures online eventually would you? I'd love to follow along.

Nick #1 (above) is correct; Mr. Crockford lists himself as the discoverer and not the inventor of JSON in all his conference biographies, like so:

"Crock is a product of our public school system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software where he discovered JSON. He is now an architect at Yahoo!."

Thanks for the added info Nick. Here's another question: How long do Juku grads have to stay employed by Yahoo!?

"How long do Juku grads have to stay employed by Yahoo!?"

Now that's a loaded question.

Heh. Well, the Jukus are under no more obligation to stay on at Yahoo than any other employee. But, the opportunities to learn here exist way beyond the formal training period, and in my (granted, biased) opinion there's no better place to work as a Front End Engineer. So, we're not too concerned about people abusing the system.

I sent mail to juku@yahoo-inc.com showing my interest to join juku program. I even sent my resume also. But i did not get reply. If I have to do any thing more please let me know.

@ Mohan

Apologies for the delay in getting back to you. We've been fairly swamped with emails from interested candidates over the last few weeks. You'll be hearing from us shortly. Thanks again for your interest - Nick

Hi, great to see Yahoo! venturing into relevant open education...
hope to hear more about how to apply for Y!Juku.
Bernadette

I look forward to learning more about the Juku program.
Lou

I'm also very interested in learning more about this. I have a background in HTML, CSS, and some Javascript, but really want to become an expert. I would say that front end developing is as close to a passion for me as anything.