5 ms·

I saw a another post just like this on Quora. I wonder if its part of a larger trend?

naithemilkman 16y ago
I have definitely seen a few other guys on HN posting about this as well. I think one of the commenters in this thread is another such person.
- yaovi 16y ago
  I graduated from a college in Kenya with a Computer Science degree. I understand OOP and other programming concepts but I feel I do not know enough when compared to my friends in the United States or other European countries. In college we mostly coded basic applications in either Vb.Net or C#. I am trying to become a better hacker by learning JS, C and Python. I am however finding it difficult as I cannot find projects that have bugs small enough for me to fix. I will be glad if someone could point me in the right direction
  - keeptrying 16y ago
    First just write some small little tool in python. I need a command line tool that will parse a website and write it out as a database record. eg: http://www.tourdust.com/products/844-atlas-mountain-sahara-desert-trek http://www.tourdust.com/products/844-atlas-mountain-sahara-d... I need to get that and write it to a database with its fields like description, photo, cost, number of people etc. Let me know if your interested. In return I can answer guide you becoming a better hacker ie, what you should read, questions on C,Python etc ... But one warning - in the end its just about sitting in front a computer building something till its done. :)
kai-zer 16y ago
Sign of a top in the bubble? I am considering the jump as well (from i-banking), and have been putting in a considerable amount of work, but part of me is worried the growth we have seen will come crashing down soon and opportunities will disappear. It is hard to give up a nice salary and job security, especially when a similar position is very difficult to return to if things don't work.
- keeptrying 16y ago
  Would you be interested in being tutored on writing a web app? I'm assuming you live in NYC? I can tutor you how to build a full web stack incising delaying it to the end user. I'm interested in building a set of lessons for this purpose which I would then like to sell.if you don't know programmimng then it would be a bg commitment but You could definitely afford such a course. If interested you can email me: railsnoob @ yahoo dot com
  - kai-zer 16y ago
    Not a total newbie, studied engineering, been programming little projects for years and had a few side jobs while in school doing mostly simple stuff. Will hit you up, curious what you have though, and always looking to make new connections.
    - keeptrying 16y ago
      Cool.

I have definitely seen a few other guys on HN posting about this as well. I think one of the commenters in this thread is another such person.

yaovi 16y ago
I graduated from a college in Kenya with a Computer Science degree. I understand OOP and other programming concepts but I feel I do not know enough when compared to my friends in the United States or other European countries. In college we mostly coded basic applications in either Vb.Net or C#. I am trying to become a better hacker by learning JS, C and Python. I am however finding it difficult as I cannot find projects that have bugs small enough for me to fix. I will be glad if someone could point me in the right direction
- keeptrying 16y ago
  First just write some small little tool in python. I need a command line tool that will parse a website and write it out as a database record. eg: http://www.tourdust.com/products/844-atlas-mountain-sahara-desert-trek http://www.tourdust.com/products/844-atlas-mountain-sahara-d... I need to get that and write it to a database with its fields like description, photo, cost, number of people etc. Let me know if your interested. In return I can answer guide you becoming a better hacker ie, what you should read, questions on C,Python etc ... But one warning - in the end its just about sitting in front a computer building something till its done. :)

kai-zer 16y ago

Sign of a top in the bubble? I am considering the jump as well (from i-banking), and have been putting in a considerable amount of work, but part of me is worried the growth we have seen will come crashing down soon and opportunities will disappear. It is hard to give up a nice salary and job security, especially when a similar position is very difficult to return to if things don't work.

keeptrying 16y ago
Would you be interested in being tutored on writing a web app? I'm assuming you live in NYC? I can tutor you how to build a full web stack incising delaying it to the end user. I'm interested in building a set of lessons for this purpose which I would then like to sell.if you don't know programmimng then it would be a bg commitment but You could definitely afford such a course. If interested you can email me: railsnoob @ yahoo dot com
- kai-zer 16y ago
  Not a total newbie, studied engineering, been programming little projects for years and had a few side jobs while in school doing mostly simple stuff. Will hit you up, curious what you have though, and always looking to make new connections.
  - keeptrying 16y ago
    Cool.