The video from the course that I'm currently watching, "2.4 - 3-tiered Shared-Nothing Architecture and Scaling", shows slides with the RHS of the text truncated.
SaaS Class is Live
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Re: SaaS Class is Live
#12The video from the course that I'm currently watching, "2.4 - 3-tiered Shared-Nothing Architecture and Scaling", shows slides with the RHS of the text truncated.
Most of all the new videos are truncated. I've subscribed to the course 'cause I know a bit of coding but i'm missing all the new MVC stuff, hoping to find a great course. Unfortunately I think the quality (for the first published videos) is a bit under par: truncated text in slides, noisy audio, no subtitles and generally (up to now) the level is quite basic. I hope it will be better going on..
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#13I guess this is being mean, but that page looks like everything wrong with teaching programming. Buzzword filled nonsense. What's with mentioning every programming language in the world? Why the hell would you mix 10 or so different skills that are mainly unrelated and some incredibly advanced concepts into a single course? I know it's free and commendable and all that, but seriously, no wonder there's a shortage of…
Even further, have either of these guys actually done something successful in the SaaS space? I mean, it's obvious they're ridiculously smart and have a lot of academic credibility, but outside of the book they're writing (which you conveniently have to have for this course), I don't see anything that would lead me to think this course is more "I've been here, and here's how to do it" than "I'm taking my normal softw…
> which you conveniently have to have for this course
No you don't.
Re: SaaS Class is Live
#14I guess this is being mean, but that page looks like everything wrong with teaching programming. Buzzword filled nonsense. What's with mentioning every programming language in the world? Why the hell would you mix 10 or so different skills that are mainly unrelated and some incredibly advanced concepts into a single course? I know it's free and commendable and all that, but seriously, no wonder there's a shortage of…
I am not a fan of the how dense the information is presented on the first page, but the other languages are being mentioned only as possible pre-requisites - they are not trying to say that they teach those languages.
Re: SaaS Class is Live
#15The video from the course that I'm currently watching, "2.4 - 3-tiered Shared-Nothing Architecture and Scaling", shows slides with the RHS of the text truncated.
Most of all the new videos are truncated. I've subscribed to the course 'cause I know a bit of coding but i'm missing all the new MVC stuff, hoping to find a great course. Unfortunately I think the quality (for the first published videos) is a bit under par: truncated text in slides, noisy audio, no subtitles and generally (up to now) the level is quite basic. I hope it will be better going on..
You can get slides in PDF/PPT and it looks like subtitles are coming but you're right, the video is a bit annoying.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Most of all the new videos are truncated. I've subscribed to the course 'cause I know a bit of coding but i'm missing all the new MVC stuff, hoping to find a great course. Unfortunately I think the quality (for the first published videos) is a bit under par: truncated text in slides, noisy audio, no subtitles and generally (up to now) the level is quite basic. I hope it will be better going on..
You can get slides in PDF/PPT and it looks like subtitles are coming but you're right, the video is a bit annoying.
I know i can download pdf/ppt (actually I can also just watch the truncated slides and guess what's there, you can understand 95-99% of what's written) but I think all these problems make the course a bit less professional than it should be
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#17I guess this is being mean, but that page looks like everything wrong with teaching programming. Buzzword filled nonsense. What's with mentioning every programming language in the world? Why the hell would you mix 10 or so different skills that are mainly unrelated and some incredibly advanced concepts into a single course? I know it's free and commendable and all that, but seriously, no wonder there's a shortage of…
It looks like it's a Rails course, and any mention of "every programming language in the world" is an insignificant portion of the curriculum. I'm also not seeing lots of "Buzzword filled nonsense", but just some explanations of various Rails architectures. Sure, some of those might be popular, but this looks like a cohesive course to me.
Exactly. Even though I haven't gone beyond chapter 1 in the book - but only in chapter 3 they try to teach you Ruby assuming you know Java. HTML and CSS are just the basic stuff that you'll need anyway - but there is a focus on the tools like Cucumbur, rspec etc. that's needed for agile development. Surely its not view of "every programming language in the world" course ...
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#18Fascinating, this course is virtually identical to CMU's Foundations of Software Engineering. As another poster mentioned in this thread, it should really be called "Intro to agile web prototype development"