I want to help you learn or practice iOS development

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Post by revolvingcur » Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 7:00 PM UTC

No strings attached.

I have been developing iOS apps professionally for about two years. I have done a very limited amount of training for new iOS developers, and I want to improve my training skills while helping the community.

If you are a programmer who is new to iOS development, or if you've been doing it for a while and need some targeted help on specific techniques or APIs, I would like to help you.

I'll be available most weekday evenings (CST). You can suggest a meeting time on my Tungle (tungle.me/warrenm) and we'll audio chat or video chat with screen sharing (on Google+ Hangouts), depending on the degree of attention you need.

You can also email me directly at wm@warrenmoore.net if you have other questions in advance. But please, don't hesitate to just pick a time and chat with me then.

Re: I want to help you learn or practice iOS development

#2

Post by ccollins » Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 7:33 PM UTC

Awesome offer & perfect timing - I emailed you and look forward to chatting!

Chris

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Post by bcjordan » Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 7:36 PM UTC

Great idea. I've done a few sessions of pair programming and giving my friends tutorials on web development over Google+ Hangouts the past couple of weeks, it works great.

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Post by andreipop » Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 8:22 PM UTC

Just a random thought, but have you considered doing something like Matygo (http://matygo.com) - I just started teaching a class on there and its pretty cool / interactive with the students. Not sure what type of time commitment you were looking for, but I think they can always use great instructors.

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Post by hendzen » Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 8:28 PM UTC

Awesome man, thanks for doing this. I've been meaning to start watching the Stanford iOS class lectures [1], so I will probably have some questions for you.

[1] - http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ipad-iphone-application-...

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Post by aaronblohowiak » Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 10:16 PM UTC

andreipop wrote: post #4

Just a random thought, but have you considered doing something like Matygo ( http://matygo.com ) - I just started teaching a class on there and its pretty cool / interactive with the students. Not sure what type of time commitment you were looking for, but I think they can always use great instructors.

they have public errors enabled and contact and propose teach are both throwing errors about invalid cookies =/

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Post by ireadzalot » Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 10:40 PM UTC

This is great! I have coreData specific question that I could really use help with. I am signing up for a meeting with you.

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Post by kls » Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 11:08 PM UTC

andreipop wrote: post #4

Just a random thought, but have you considered doing something like Matygo ( http://matygo.com ) - I just started teaching a class on there and its pretty cool / interactive with the students. Not sure what type of time commitment you were looking for, but I think they can always use great instructors.

Cool idea, they made it to my bookmarks. Ideas like this are the future of education. I was thinking the same thing when I read the original article posted about teaching. My first thought was why not a video chat with a class instead of one person. My second thought was I wonder if anyone is doing this, you answered my second question. Thank You.

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Post by revolvingcur » Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 11:16 PM UTC

The response to this has been literally overwhelming, but I'm really excited to talk with everyone who has signed up.

If you're still interested, there are several slots on Tuesday and Friday.

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Post by revolvingcur » Sun, Jan 29, 2012, 11:21 PM UTC

kls wrote: post #8

andreipop wrote: post #4

Just a random thought, but have you considered doing something like Matygo ( http://matygo.com ) - I just started teaching a class on there and its pretty cool / interactive with the students. Not sure what type of time commitment you were looking for, but I think they can always use great instructors.

Cool idea, they made it to my bookmarks. Ideas like this are the future of education. I was thinking the same thing when I read the original article posted about teaching. My first thought was why not a video chat with a class instead of one person. My second thought was I wonder if anyone is doing this, you answered my second question. Thank You.

The reason for the one-on-one format is that I want to get a feel for where different people are in their learning. Already, I've heard from total newbies, people with programming experience wanting to move into iOS, and people who have tried doing iOS development and found difficulty.

I totally agree that if you could vet your audience (which might be as simple as slapping a price tag on it and posting a syllabus), you could take a more homogeneous approach. I'll certainly be looking in this in the future.

For the moment, I guess I've created a wildly "unscalable" experience in order to give everyone personalized attention wherever they may be.