Hey guys, I'm a CS student at Stanford, and in the fall I'm running weekly workshops on hard skills for CS students - I've definitely seen a gap between the skills most CS students have and the skills needed to deploy a real world application (i.e. node :)
You'll have the chance to teach and mentor some really, really smart people, and really have a huge impact in speeding up the ability of these people to create. Realistically, they will learn it eventually - but I think my friends should learn this stuff earlier! I'd love to help spread node amongst Stanford, and that's where I can use your help :) The plan for the first workshop is something like this: 10-30 minutes going through an example application (just to cover the common ground so people can get to individual/non-generic issues as fast as possible) a few hours with everyone working on their own stuff and asking for help as needed Why like this? I learn best when I quickly skim a tutorial/docs, and then start working. This way I've learned just enough so that when I hit a roadblock, I know what I need to google! The plan for the second workshop? No idea! Definitely will evolve rapidly based on what works well and what doesn't work each time. Thursday 26th of September will be the first workshop, from 7pm to 11.30pm. Between 15 and 30 people - I'm thinking smaller for the first one. It'll be on campus at Stanford. What would you be doing? Either myself or one of the volunteers (aiming to have around 5 for the first event) will do the 10-30 minute demo creating an application, and then for 3 or 4 hours people will be building things, talking about how to build things/architecture, and helping people work out how to solve their bugs (not spoonfeeding - teaching the skills of using the spoon). How can you help? If you'll be available then - let me know! Reply, or email me ([email protected]), there will be food provided (I'm thinking a healthier mix than is normally at CS events on campus, less pizza and more fruit :) ), or if you can't but maybe know someone who would love to, then let them know, or if you just see this post sitting here with zero replies and want to encourage me, that would be awesome too :) -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
