There are members who are skilled programmers already in our forum.
It would be nice to host a programming course for money. So aspiring developers can have a mentor to turn to for their questions and pay for your time of course.
What programming languages you know to do a course that can be paid. Maybe you can make a special section in the website so a fraction of the cost may go for maintenance of the forum.
Even if they are not fully specialized programmer. Those who know a little more can help those who know less and be compensated.
There are many who would like to learn how to program and have no one to teach them. To pay a little for the personalized assistance and knowledge transfer should be accepted.
Every programmer can put their own price for their time. How about this idea?
Is there a particular venue that you would like to learn?
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Learn for free.
http://www.runrev.com/developers/documentation/beginners-course/ (http://www.runrev.com/developers/documentation/beginners-course/)
Livecode is about to go open source. That means that you can build Sims for free. I will give you sim development advice for free. All you have to do is get started. Many of my Sims are very simple to write.
put random(37) into x
put x into field "results"
That's a RNG in just two lines of livecode.
Here it is in one line:
put random(37) into field "results"
Have you tried code academy?
http://www.codeacademy.com (http://www.codeacademy.com)
Thanks for the links.
Right now I am with Basic256.org (http://www.basic256.org)
Quote from: Bayes on March 27, 2013, 05:31:58 PM
Have you tried code academy?
http://www.codeacademy.com (http://www.codeacademy.com)
Nope. But I did discover some very interesting stuff this last week. When I got started back in 96 I was told that I would need to learn Visual Basic in order to accomplish sophistication in the IT world. There was Pearl, CGI, JavaScript, Flash, and all kinds of standards being required to give the impression that you were savvy enough to take a risk on. My favorite language is xTalk, the language of HyperCard. Well now this language does all those tricky CGI scripting tricks. I can interface my websites with database interactions. Heck, I created my own database that is not table oriented. It uses my parallel numerical linear parser to deliver data from a cloud of formless conglomerated storage. And now my cloud is remote access by construct language and unlimited contributions.
Walter, exactly what do you have in mind?
If it's a section for people to teach and ask, we already have one (rarely used, but there).
I don't know about the money part yet chances are the fellows will be happy to assist you for free.
..."ask and thou shalt receive"...
Quote from: Bayes
Have you tried code academy?
http://www.codeacademy.com (http://www.codeacademy.com)
Thanks Jules.......it seems like a nice place to start.
I did, and now I'm on my way!......to learning coding.
[revealB]got to start somewhere, haven't eye!![/revealB]
Here is a link to download a 45 minute YouTube video of getting started with livecode.
http://revdev.on-rev.com//Begginer%20Lessons/Lesson%201.zip (http://revdev.on-rev.com//Begginer%20Lessons/Lesson%201.zip)
I downloaded it in a minute on my smart phone. These six videos teach you how to create your own software.
The link that I posted earlier contains all six videos.
IMO - self-paced instruction modules are useful and valuable but do not replace human instruction completely. Unless you are versed in the computer "way" you will struggle. I know really intelligent people who still struggle to grasp the simple principles of structuring their personal file system and constantly lose files or shove everything on the desktop and so on. And who can't see the desktop in anything other than 2 dimensions causing them all sorts of troubles with losing windows and other problems with the UI.
While the old adage "you can't teach an old horse new tricks" is not completely true, I think it fair to say that those of us who did not grow up in the digital world can find it difficult to fully integrate modern technological concepts - particularly programming.
There ARE such thinks as "good practice", efficient internal data structures, and other concepts such as queues, recursion, iteration, functions and subroutines, various forms of array structures, mapping, linked lists, sorting algorithms, and so on, that are often not fully covered by language-specific instruction programmes. Even simple (not very useful) things like the difference between "program" and "programme" are not well understood.
I admire anybody who is willing to take all this on by themselves, and they deserve our help if we are able to provide it. Rather than just point a person at an on-line course and leave them to it, how about we try to add a little value to their learning experience?
Perhaps we could set up a sticky in the programming area where we list people along with their particular skills who are willing to receive questions. Let the student take the on-line courses that are appropriate for what they want, and provide a place where they can find a suitably qualified teacher to answer their questions and provide general advice to help cover the principles that may not be well addressed in the language they have chosen.
Even starting off can be a problem. What are they wanting to accomplish? If they just want to play with simulations then perhaps they would be better advised to learn roullette xtreme. If they want to learn a programming language then why? What are they wanting to do with it? Which language would they be best advised to learn?
Best to all
Bryan
Some excellent ideas there, Bryan. :thumbsup:
But I'm wondering if http://hobbycode.cc/index.php (http://hobbycode.cc/index.php) might be a better place to set all this up. And for folk here to visit if they want to get to grips with coding.
It's better suited to 'all things programming' than this site.
Furthermore, it's a stable environment and not subject to vexatious and litigous outside influences -- if you get my drift.
Yes, of course. Let's start with recursion and other subjects like class overloading. I can teach object oriented programming with xTalk in less than ten minutes. Variables create their own memory space just by using them for the first time.
put "Hello World" into x
repeat with i = 1 to 5
put x & return after field "maintext"
end repeat
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Hello World
Actually if the language design were up to me, I could compress it further:
QuoteDo 10
print "Hello World"
:D