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Re: Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs

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Post by lyaunzbe » Tue, Apr 05, 2011, 11:55 PM UTC

Man, I'd love to contribute to Khan Academy, especially since they've given me so much already. I can't count the number of times Sal's videos have helped me in my AP Physics and Calculus classes this year. It's too bad I'm still in high school.

I actually had an idea, a couple of weeks ago, that it would be really cool to implement some kind of functionality that brought together real time chat and a "blackboard" capabilities (Canvas and node.js?) to the site, so people could discuss certain topics and simultaneously draw out diagrams/problems/etc. I feel like Q.A. for homework/learning could be done a lot better then what we have currently right now (WikiAnswers, Yahoo Answers, etc). Good luck, I'm sure tons of awesome developers will jump at this opportunity.

Re: Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs

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Post by ph0rque » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 12:06 AM UTC

A humble, semi-off-topic suggestion: develop the knowledge maps for all the (planned in the near future) courses first, then let anyone submit both video lectures and evaluation questions and answers.

Re: Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs

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Post by burrows » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 12:09 AM UTC

lyaunzbe wrote: post #21

Man, I'd love to contribute to Khan Academy, especially since they've given me so much already. I can't count the number of times Sal's videos have helped me in my AP Physics and Calculus classes this year. It's too bad I'm still in high school. I actually had an idea, a couple of weeks ago, that it would be really cool to implement some kind of functionality that brought together real time chat and a "blackboard" ca…

http://www.mathim.com/ and http://typewith.me/ and http://www.mangamasters.com/paintchat/

Re: Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs

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Post by lyaunzbe » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 12:16 AM UTC

burrows wrote: post #23

lyaunzbe wrote: post #21

Man, I'd love to contribute to Khan Academy, especially since they've given me so much already. I can't count the number of times Sal's videos have helped me in my AP Physics and Calculus classes this year. It's too bad I'm still in high school. I actually had an idea, a couple of weeks ago, that it would be really cool to implement some kind of functionality that brought together real time chat and a "blackboard" ca…

http://www.mathim.com/ and http://typewith.me/ and http://www.mangamasters.com/paintchat/

Thanks, I didn't know about those. Typewith.me looks pretty well done. My friend and I actually used to use flockdraw when we wanted to draw free body diagrams and circuits. It would be interesting to see, though, how integrating a such a drawchat system into Khan Academy would play out, considering how fast the community is growing and the type of audience it is developing.

Re: Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs

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Post by burrows » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 12:32 AM UTC

lyaunzbe wrote: post #24

burrows wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://www.mathim.com/ and http://typewith.me/ and http://www.mangamasters.com/paintchat/

Thanks, I didn't know about those. Typewith.me looks pretty well done. My friend and I actually used to use flockdraw when we wanted to draw free body diagrams and circuits. It would be interesting to see, though, how integrating a such a drawchat system into Khan Academy would play out, considering how fast the community is growing and the type of audience it is developing.

Would probably make sense for someone to just write a site agnostic 'drawchat' plugin.

Re: Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs

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Post by ctbarna » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 1:00 AM UTC

kamens wrote: post #5

invalidOrTaken wrote: post #4

Oh man. If I weren't in school I'd jump on this so fast. KA has helped tremendously in my self-study. Part of the reason I chose Python as my current learning language instead of Ruby was so I can contribute exercises to their stats lectures. Could you use a (non-remote) intern this spring/summer?

Yes, we have a couple internship spots still open. Same story, send resume/side-projects/etc to jobs@khanacademy.org

I was going to ask the same question about interns (Saw a posting a few months ago about internships there). I sent my resume over.

Re: Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs

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Post by semerda » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 1:02 AM UTC

Love your work guys! Keep up the awesome job!! Found your videos on "Valuation and Investing" priceless and so easy to comprehend.

Re: Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs

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Post by ig1 » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 1:03 AM UTC

hugh3 wrote: post #20

pixcavator wrote: post #11

Compare: "Khan Academy is hiring full-time profs". Who needs those? Everybody can teach, apparently.

This was modded down, possibly for incomprehensibility, but... is the Khan academy planning on hiring any profs? Is it still the one dude doing all the videos?

Well I don't know about others, but I moded it down because it was "jerk-like" behaviour. The same comment could have been written in a polite and professional manner, but the op chose to write in an insulting manner.

Following the recent thread on HN quality, I've decided to be much more aggressive in downvoting impolite comments.

Re: Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs

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Post by krallja » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 2:37 AM UTC

jbermudes wrote: post #18

Where are you guys located?

From the article:

"Flexible working environment. We're based in Mountain View, but working remotely is not off the table."

Re: Tell HN: Khan Academy is hiring full-time devs

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Post by wicha » Wed, Apr 06, 2011, 2:45 AM UTC

Think Khan Academy is transformative? Here is the most transformative education platform I've ever seen in my life: www.classroom.tv . It will blow you away.