I'm interested. I signed up on your site. Let me know how you'd like to do the whole donation thing and when we're getting started. I'm on chapter 7 now and haven't really run into any issues so far, but it can't hurt to go through it all again. Good idea here, thanks.
On Wednesday, 22 January 2014 13:42:28 UTC-5, Ruby-Forum.com User wrote: > > I'm currently a junior developer working on my side project called pair > studying. The idea came when I was studying alone following Michael > Hartl's tutorial. The rails tutorial was amazing, it gave me so many > great insights and a good view of what Rails is and what it can do. > However, I struggled hard!!! My code would break and I couldn't do > anything about it :( I either had to start over or ignore the problem > and keep going on. This happened frequently and I was not happy. The > problem was that if I had someone to look over my code, they probably > would have spotted my error or at least help me fix it. I found that one > of the more common reasons my program would break was due to spelling > errors. > With pair studying I hope to knit together an online community to help > each other learn. I admit there are kinks that I have yet to be fixed. > It is far from finished, but I wanted to share it with the community so > that I may get feedback and learn from you and hopefully it may benefit > your studying. There are many other features and UI designs I want to > add. > > I learned so much from my helpful mentors and I want to give back. I'm > looking for 4 individuals who want to go through Rails Tutorial with me. > We will be covering 1 to 2 chapter each week, haven't fully decided the > pace yet. The course will cost $25 that will be donated to Railsbridge, > check them out if you haven't heard about them! I'm not charging to make > money, nor do I think I'm that good to be charging money. You're paying > as a way of making a commitment. I'm hoping to get serious students who > really want to learn and will follow through by putting the time and > effort needed to become a developer. > > The process will entail students going through each chapter on their > own. When they get stuck on a problem, they can share the problem on the > site or possibly reach me through skype, haven't fully decided on > either. Students will be learning by helping and teaching each other > solve problems. I will be there to answer questions, but really hope > that the interaction amongst students will be enough to solve problems. > I plan to be heavily involved in the beginning of the phase and become > less and less present as a gradually releasing them into the wild. I > will be spending around 2 hours each week helping with questions and > just talking about the process. If you're interested feel free to tweet > me or visit my site and contact me through the form, and if you're on > reddit just pm me. Also I'm requiring my students to post at least 1 to > TodayILearned on my site. At work we have daily standups. In short, it > is to share what you have done, learned, or stuck on. I want everyone to > share what they have learned so that others can benefit from your > learning. > > I'm only hitting the surface with programming and I'm very excited to > have made this! Makes me proud. Thanks for reading. Feel free to share > or leave me comments and I'll answer them promptly. > > Currently, I have 1 person enrolled looking to fill the other 3 slots. > > > http://www.pairstudying.com/ > > http://jmoon90.github.io/blog/2014/01/18/pairstudying-launches-to-help-beginners-programmers-learn-in-a-group/ > > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/4ac06795-6b36-4494-a49e-38aa09e199c6%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
