Ill get a website up and running asap where we can collaborate and throw some ideas around not what everyone wants out of a course like this. People can then book a place and we can get some idea of numbers.
Thanks for all the interest everyone. Barry On Friday, 16 March 2012 18:45:29 UTC+11, Andrew Cowie wrote: > > On Fri, 2012-03-16 at 15:14 +1100, Barry Reid wrote: > > I'm looking at running a course to teach budding entrepreneurs how to > > go about building their own prototype web applications... > > Not sure if you're aware, but there's an initiative along these lines > running a program called "Code Year 2012"; quite a few non-technical > types I know have signed up and are following along. > > http://codeyear.com/ > > Be interesting to see if the VP Marketing I first heard this from sticks > with it. Pretty sure he'll be telling the developers how to hack by the > end of it :) > > > I think we could run it 2 to 3 times a week from around 6pm to 9pm and > > over about 10 weeks. I would guess we could cover the following. > > There's nothing wrong with running your own curriculum, of course! One > of the reasons I'm a tad sceptical about Code Year is that most of us > who learnt to program had help along the way; usually NOT in "school", > but a friend or mentor to nudge you in the right direction from time to > time (this has been going on in the Unix world since the late 70s). > > So your notion of running something face-to-face has merit; not so much > to be lectured at, but a bit of shared hacking time is always a > wonderful way to learn new things. You probably need to recruit some > experienced developers willing to help as mentors. > > People learning need to be motivated to find their own answers. That's > the cool thing about Code Year and about what you're considering as well > - if they're there, it's because they want to be. > > Regards, > > AfC > Sydney > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
