Show HN: A sequence of online courses to learn web development from scratch

Post by gautambay » Tue, Apr 01, 2014, 4:33 PM UTC

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Considering that learning is a means to an end for most people, another factor is employers' willingness to hire a self-taught individual -- far greater in areas like software development or design (where one can showcase one's skills through a portfolio) than say medicine (where the only credential of accepted value is a professional degree). Not saying that's the way it should necessarily be, but the status quo pre…

Like I said, data analysis sounds great as a next week idea. Where can I hear about it when it goes live?

Post by RodericDay » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 3:47 AM UTC

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That's all very intuitive to me. I want a tutorial that starts with "You want an app to do X with your friends, like an imitation of Doodle for planning Dungeons and Dragons sessions? The real way? Set aside $X money/month, book a domain name, and we're going to set up a real website, incrementally, and publicly available at every step along the way." Stuff like Heroku people make sound like it's a one stop shop but…

Thanks for the detailed answer. I'm actually planning on creating a course and this is very valuable information. I can let you know when it's done.

Post by netcan » Wed, Apr 02, 2014, 11:31 AM UTC

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Like I said, data analysis sounds great as a next week idea. Where can I hear about it when it goes live?

Well, the alpha version just went live at http://www.mysliderule.com/data-analysis-intro . We'll work on structure / organization and release an updated version later this week.

Post by parul » Thu, Apr 03, 2014, 5:58 AM UTC

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Well, the alpha version just went live at http://www.mysliderule.com/data-analysis-intro . We'll work on structure / organization and release an updated version later this week.

Cool. BTW, as a side note. I think a great idea for a data course would be Learn to make http://xkcd.com/980/ as its starting point. Where does he get this data. How does he work with it. Why is it represented like this.

Post by rattray » Sun, Apr 06, 2014, 7:03 PM UTC

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Hey Steve, thanks for your work in this course. It's a terrific thing for you to do and it's my favorite course to recommend to beginners to webdev. That said, the webapp2 decision is by far my biggest hesitation in recommending it. Webapp2 just doesn't have the community support; whether django is too "heavy" or flask too "light", they're both popular , which means they have great support, plugins, help on SO, and a…

Sure, in the right hands Django (and Rails) and yield major productivity boosts. I personally don't like working in frameworks of that size because I find myself fighting them to do what I want. For the course itself, I really wanted the students to get as close to the server as possible. Then, when some of them switch to the heavier frameworks, they'll have a better idea of what the framework is doing and what is po…