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I have very little programming experience/skill but really want to take this course and am up for a challenge. Is it doable? Anything that I could do to supplement the course to make up for my disadvantage?
I guess there's no harm trying.
> Anything that I could do to supplement the course to make up for my disadvantage?
If you want to learn programming, I can recommend "How to design programmes" (Full text available online at htdp.org)
Here is a google doc with a collection of the best eight online courses available on platforms like Coursera, Udacity, Venture Lab, and iTunes. Together these courses form a kick-ass Internet Startup Major.
happy to edit if you have suggestions
Sounds more like a "how to build a web app" course. [0] Building a startup involves a lot of "soft skills" that not all developers are familiar with: marketing, talking to customers, overcoming all sorts of psychological blockers/fears about putting yourself, your ideas, and your product "out there" for all people to judge. When I saw the title, I hoped that it would focus on those aspects of building a startup, sort…
Give me the specs for a $19.9 ebook on that, please :) I've been of the mind to write something like that for a while.
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Hi Balaji. I plan to build a website as a part of your class. Since I am not very tech savvy (basic knowledge of html, css, and python), will you still recommend taking your course?
Hi Smirnoff: try out the first few lectures and see if it fits your background. The key is how quickly you can pick up the web programming stuff.
Sounds more like a "how to build a web app" course. [0] Building a startup involves a lot of "soft skills" that not all developers are familiar with: marketing, talking to customers, overcoming all sorts of psychological blockers/fears about putting yourself, your ideas, and your product "out there" for all people to judge. When I saw the title, I hoped that it would focus on those aspects of building a startup, sort…
Building a startup involves a lot of "soft skills" that not all developers are familiar with: marketing, talking to customers, overcoming all sorts of psychological blockers/fears about putting yourself, your ideas, and your product "out there" for all people to judge. Give me the specs for a $19.9 ebook on that, please :) I've been of the mind to write something like that for a while.
Just enrolled. It looks like this is the second time the class has been offered. Has anyone on HN already taken the course? What did you think?
I also took the class in the winter at Stanford and had an awesome experience. We focused on the things that mattered and a bunch of really cool startups came out of the class. I can also imagine that it'll be excellent online -- Balaji put together great writeups of the content we covered that I'm still referencing now and I believe the (amazing) guest lecturers were filmed.
Sounds more like a "how to build a web app" course. [0] Building a startup involves a lot of "soft skills" that not all developers are familiar with: marketing, talking to customers, overcoming all sorts of psychological blockers/fears about putting yourself, your ideas, and your product "out there" for all people to judge. When I saw the title, I hoped that it would focus on those aspects of building a startup, sort…