[ale] [OT] Helping others learn C, D, X, Y, Z, EIEIO...

DJ-Pfulio djpfulio at jdpfu.com
Tue Dec 15 16:39:01 EST 2015


http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
No meetings. No formal "student list"; we want knowledge, nothing more.

Work at your own pace, but after 90 days, expect everyone will move on to the
next thing (whatever that is).  The book has exercises; do all 52
chapters/exercises.

Communicate progress and questions here or thru the Github project or #ale IRC.

If stuck, ask for help and hopefully a mentor will contact the person off-list.
They can skype, hangout, phone, tmux, screen, whatever ...

All very informal.  Clearly, this isn't good for people who want/need to be
pushed.  If you like, pay me $500 (cash only) up-front and I'll return the money
when you finish (to my satisfaction), with proof of completion. That should be
enough incentive to finish the work in 90 days. ;)

Yeah, that's what all the students should do, definitely. ;)






Clearly, I'm joking.



On 12/15/2015 04:23 PM, Scott M. Jones wrote:
> What is the plan for the first 90 days and who are the students besides
> you?  Are you just looking for occasional help and advice as you work
> through that book or something more like actual teaching?  How is this
> going to work?  Days and times?
> 
> I'd have a hard time drawing up any complete list but I'd certainly want
> you to know all control forms (if, while, do, for, etc.), pointers,
> arrays, variables and types, malloc/free, and file I/O, to do anything I
> mentioned before.
> 
> -Scott
> 
> On 12/15/15 2:50 PM, leam hall wrote:
>> Scott, that does bring up a good point. Those of you offering advanced
>> mentoring may want to establish a minimal requirements list, or a way
>> to assess someone's skills before mutually committing time.
>>
>> I'd have no problem with you telling me I'm not ready, especially if
>> you could point out things I could do to get ready!




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