Re: Clojure online university

2012-02-19 Thread Peter Hanak
Sean thanks for pointing me to Amit Rathore's course. I really like his book and am looking forward to learn from him. I am glad that you guys think Clojure Uni is good idea. I think that best approach will be to start with Khan Academy. It is free and it seems easy to create new exercises. It

Re: Re: Clojure online university

2012-02-19 Thread labwork07
P2PU.org is a great format to teach a class. I took a Javascript class there. I wish someone would teach a class on clojure there. On , Peter Hanak ptr6...@gmail.com wrote: Sean thanks for pointing me to Amit Rathore's course. I really like his book and am looking forward to learn from

Re: Clojure online university

2012-02-18 Thread diepeglo
+1. To get an impression how this could look like check the upcoming Stanford, MIT and udacity classes: www.class-central.org www.udacity.com and of course not to forget the legendary ai-class.com (Sebastian Thrun's follow-up robotics class is at udacity.com and starts on Monday!!) -

Re: Clojure online university

2012-02-17 Thread Devin Walters
I'll add a +1 to this. It seems like a great way to keep a stream of competent, hireable (from a business perspective) Clojure programmers flowing. I think it lowers some concerns for businesses considering adoption. Beyond that, even if a student were to go and program in another language, I

Clojure online university

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Hanak
Hello fellow Clojurians, yesterday I was watching Neal Ford's brilliant world domination video and it got me again thinking about idea I've got for some time. With the advent of online learning initiatives like Stanford, MITx, and many others I think it would be great to create Clojure course.

Re: Clojure online university

2012-02-16 Thread Sean Corfield
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Peter Hanak ptr6...@gmail.com wrote: If someone in the community is thinking about something like this, and needs any help please let me know. Something like this, from the author of Clojure in Action, Amit Rathore: