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> I’d like to help others make better free and open source software so I’m making this standing offer: I’ll review your README for free. On a more global discu

by polote 6y ago

> I’d like to help others make better free and open source software so I’m making this standing offer: I’ll review your README for free. On a more global discussion, I feel like a lot of experienced people are willing to help, or teach for free on subjects such as, startups, programming, product management, data science, tech subjects ... (and I assume on other non-tech topics also) but it is always hard to find people to help. I mean you could join a charity, but it is not the same thing as being close to one person and helping him in topics he is not good at. Does anyone know a community where one can find people to help individually ?

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago
As an older person that has done quite a bit of free teaching, I'd gently suggest that a good start would be to have the current generation be a little more generous towards us. A lot of us are, indeed, tiresome old "OK boomers," but some of us (I'd like to think I'm one) may actually have something to contribute. Here's an example of a simple course I gave on Core Bluetooth. It was not free, but try! Swift World does their courses for $50 a pop, which is pretty cheap (BTW: I donated the proceeds for my class to sponsor scholarships to other classes): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chrismarshallny_try-swift-world-activity-6775139604946329600-4DcC/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chrismarshallny_try-swift-wor... Take note of the course materials. They basically teach the class on their own (also, they are entirely driven by some very intense READMEs). In my experience, a couple of the better teachers on try! Swift World are relatively older ones, like Erica Sadun and Daniel Steinberg. Some of the younger ones are also excellent.
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littleninja 6y ago
> Does anyone know a community where one can find people to help individually ? Yes! https://codingcoach.io/ https://codingcoach.io/ I enlisted to be a mentor but found I wasn’t prepared or ready for the time commitment quite yet. The folks who reach out are often in a bootcamp or self taught and looking for a way to break into their first tech job.

by polote 6y ago

ChrisMarshallNY 6y ago

As an older person that has done quite a bit of free teaching, I'd gently suggest that a good start would be to have the current generation be a little more generous towards us. A lot of us are, indeed, tiresome old "OK boomers," but some of us (I'd like to think I'm one) may actually have something to contribute. Here's an example of a simple course I gave on Core Bluetooth. It was not free, but try! Swift World does their courses for $50 a pop, which is pretty cheap (BTW: I donated the proceeds for my class to sponsor scholarships to other classes): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chrismarshallny_try-swift-world-activity-6775139604946329600-4DcC/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chrismarshallny_try-swift-wor... Take note of the course materials. They basically teach the class on their own (also, they are entirely driven by some very intense READMEs). In my experience, a couple of the better teachers on try! Swift World are relatively older ones, like Erica Sadun and Daniel Steinberg. Some of the younger ones are also excellent.

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littleninja 6y ago

> Does anyone know a community where one can find people to help individually ? Yes! https://codingcoach.io/ https://codingcoach.io/ I enlisted to be a mentor but found I wasn’t prepared or ready for the time commitment quite yet. The folks who reach out are often in a bootcamp or self taught and looking for a way to break into their first tech job.