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Re: The Great Code Club

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Post by manish_gill »

macournoyer wrote: post #32
scotthtaylor wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do we get for $30?

Mostly what the site says: http://www.greatcodeclub.com/#content - Screencasts presenting the project, giving the basics and showing solutions. - Code to get started, full projects and examples. - A community for help and support. - I'll also be there supporting and answering questions. I've been teaching other devs online for a few years: http://classes.codedinc.com/

Hmm. Besides the support, I'm thinking this would be something very similar to this: http://pythonpracticeprojects.com/

Code to get started doesn't make a lot of sense to me, if my goal is to complete projects! :)

Re: The Great Code Club

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Post by jitl »

macournoyer wrote: post #33
CGamesPlay wrote: post #31

Is this more of a curated program where I am assigned a project to work on and given support towards doing so, or is this a community where people come in with projects and the community works collaboratively towards supporting these projects? Is it a club or a school?

It will start as a curated program. But my hope is to make it evolve to be both. A place to get knowledge, inspiration and motivation. And then a place to get help and support making your own thing when you're ready.

I think then that the name is a little disingenuous. "Club" connotes a community, but not a directed program of study with a supervising teacher. The first half of the website, everything up until "Learning for all types of learners," describes an awesome community idea. Your product screenshot is a re-skinned Discourse forum.

But you swerve into this sort-of class format so we can "build our resumes" to be like Twitter employees, and you're looking for $30/mo for it? This seems like less collaborative community, and more a carefully branded training course from http://classes.codedinc.com/.

Re: The Great Code Club

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Post by macournoyer »

jitl wrote: post #42
macournoyer wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It will start as a curated program. But my hope is to make it evolve to be both. A place to get knowledge, inspiration and motivation. And then a place to get help and support making your own thing when you're ready.

I think then that the name is a little disingenuous. "Club" connotes a community, but not a directed program of study with a supervising teacher. The first half of the website, everything up until "Learning for all types of learners," describes an awesome community idea. Your product screenshot is a re-skinned Discourse forum. But you swerve into this sort-of class format so we can "build our resumes" to be like Twit…

Not at all what I had in mind. I want this to be a community and not a course.

But to get there we have to start somewhere. And I know people can bond and form a community better if they work on similar problems, thus the projects.

Re: The Great Code Club

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Post by sneak »

ihuman wrote: post #5
sdegutis wrote: post #3

A little off-topic, but it makes me a little sad that the exemplar my_great_project it mentions is in JavaScript. It's not because of the language itself. It's because it's implied that the platform my_great_project would be built on is "Chrome, the new C runtime". This is the "platform of the future" and that makes me kinda sad. EDIT: clarified

How come? JavaScript is a pretty popular language nowadays.

Macklemore is a pretty popular rapper these days, too.

Doesn't make 'em any good, though.

Re: The Great Code Club

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Post by crazygringo »

This seems cool, as far as I can tell it's more for one's personal education, rather than producing something for others to use?

So I'm curious... is there any kind of "open-source incubator" out there? Like, a site with 500 developers signed up, they all vote on new project ideas, start a new project each month, kind of like a great big collaborative hackathon, in order to put out some really impressive piece of software, that then hopefully lives on?

E.g., an open-source iTunes integrated with bittorrent, complete with iPhone app. A font-design program for amateurs. A keyframed animation tool that outputs to HTML5 canvas. A dynamic texture generator program. A user-friendly neural net trainer. A new lossy image compression format and encoder/decoder designed for resolution independence instead of a fixed pixel grid. I don't know, just cool projects that get people really excited.

I mean, the logistics of organizing such a thing would be a little crazy, since not every type of project is amenable to a large number of developers working in parallel, and you'd need a kind of domain expert and lead architect on each one. But it would be so, so cool...

Re: The Great Code Club

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Post by vikp »

crazygringo wrote: post #46

This seems cool, as far as I can tell it's more for one's personal education, rather than producing something for others to use? So I'm curious... is there any kind of "open-source incubator" out there? Like, a site with 500 developers signed up, they all vote on new project ideas, start a new project each month, kind of like a great big collaborative hackathon, in order to put out some really impressive piece of sof…

It really would be. I was hoping that this "coding club" would do something like what you described, but it seems to be more of a pay-for-learning approach.

Re: The Great Code Club

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Post by sdegutis »

Zikes wrote: post #39
sdegutis wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not because of the language itself. It's because it's implied that the platform my_great_project would be built on is "Chrome, the new C runtime". This is the "platform of the future" and that makes me kinda sad.

C/C++ won't be going anywhere for a long, long time. Don't worry. However, if it really bugs you that much, why not create a Great C Club? The necessity of a good community web site to power it notwithstanding.

It's not that I'm attached to C and C++. It's that I think the Web as a development platform is kind of a Rube Goldberg machine, and I think we as a community of programmers could probably do a whole lot better.

Re: The Great Code Club

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Post by coenhyde »

I never have any problems starting something new. I have problems finishing what I start. When I start a new project I do the hard parts first for a proof of concept. Except now that I know it can be done I loose interest...
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