Awesome work!
My GF learned to code in 3 months. This is what she came up with.
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#12Wow she is awesome. This music hack day project is intensely beautiful http://nukaco.la/projects.html
It is a musical umbrella! That synths sound as it is hit by water!
Re: My GF learned to code in 3 months. This is what she came up with.
#13She learned all by herself?
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#14Actually she might learned to code in 3 months, but shes coding much longer I guess. e.g She wrote in her XING profile that she started studying informatics in 10/2010. Despite that, consider marrying her :)
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#15Can you ask her to outline the process she used to learn to code this tool?
Basically, for ruby and javascript we had (very informal) coaching sessions together roughly once a week (around 2 hours each). I would walk her through core syntax problems (how to use functions, objects, arrays) and give her some hints of what APIs to look for. And then she went and researched and tried a lot of stuff (sometimes more than 8 hours a day) and would ask me when she got totally stuck. I would then try to not give direct answers but hint at where to look for or how to develop some sort of divide-and-conquer strategies. And then I was kinda amazed at the results ;)
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#16I really like the skills section http://nukaco.la/skills.html I wish this was standard practice for resumes, even though it's subjective assessment it's really easy to compare relative strengths and weaknesses, for example it's very easy to see "dabbled in haskell, very proficient in garage band" just by glancing
Came here to say the same thing. I think it's an incredibly effective visualization.
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#17Very, very cool stuff. Haveband is also a good idea, but I think the interface could be improved by using a dropdown/select for the values- having each of those side by side with the grey background made me think they were tags.
Other than that and the Stallman reference, all is great. Stallman is a great guy (imo), but I think her work should be the central focus. The skills page also shows smart design.
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#18Thank you all for being so nice! :')
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#19I liked some of her other projects more, like the little Maniac Mansion thing, or her Rails app haveband.
Re: My GF learned to code in 3 months. This is what she came up with.
#20Actually she might learned to code in 3 months, but shes coding much longer I guess. e.g She wrote in her XING profile that she started studying informatics in 10/2010. Despite that, consider marrying her :)
Yup, I started studying bioinformatics in 2010. I chose bioinformatics, because I was interested in biochemistry and biology and wanted to learn how to code. To my disappointment uni did not teach me much practical things and programming courses (Haskell) were really boring. I would find myself sitting over a really dull homework in the middle of the night thinking "It's so stupid and boring. I really don't want to do this. I want to do more fun stuff... like coding a game or so.". Well trying to code a game in Haskell turned out to not be the best idea. Especially if you don't know how to code yet... and then I just stopped going to classes.
3-4 months ago I wanted to make a band, but had a hard time finding musicians. So I decided to learn Rails and HTML etc to build a web application which could help me (and others) find some musicians. In the end I never really officially launched it but learned a lot and found that I enjoy coding. :)