CRESTRON TRAINS THE TRAINER

By Rupert Denoon - Crestron Regional Manager

In June Mike Backler EMEA Training and CSP Manager from Crestron International, visited Crestron House to present the new and improved certification training course – a case of training the trainer. Adam Hooper (Crestron Programmer), Wayne Nuen (Technical Support) and I attended the four-day training session that covered the P101, P201 and the P301.

The P101 Foundations of Crestron programing is the first certification track course; this covers the basics of Project Management from a programmer's perspective, the Input-Process-Output concepts of programming, Crestron Toolbox software, and gives an Introduction to SIMPL Programming. We will also covered VTPro in depth with an emphasis on the Smart Graphics, then moved into complete system programming in SIMPL Windows.

P201 Core System Programming this course can only be done if one has completed an Essentials course or the P101. We covered Smart Graphics, advanced string building and NV Ram usage. Students worked with TCP/IP devices as if they were real third party equipment. We used some of the advanced symbol sets to extract strings and manipulated them to display human readable information. We also had an introduction to Roomview / Fusion.

The goal of the 3-day P301 Advanced Programming Skills class was to teach advanced programming skills beyond the day-to-day programming skills. It completed the knowledge base needed to pass the certification practicum. We covered SIMPL+ modules: how to create them and when to use them, advanced programming and string handling using SIMPL+, including direct socket access.

After a long week, Mike and I enjoyed an afternoon at the lion park before he jetted back to the UK.

The good news for Crestron clients is now that we trainers are trained we can offer all these courses locally at Crestron house; your road to certification has never been easier.