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Thanks for your answer. Kickstarter is not an option for me as I'd be required to have a US social security number. I don't have one, I'm Swiss. I'd go with Ind

Thanks for your answer. Kickstarter is not an option for me as I'd be required to have a US social security number. I don't have one, I'm Swiss. I'd go with Indiegogo. Crowdfunding is not my expertise at all. How would you go to spread the word about the campaign? I know my target audience doesn't lie within the pro coders crowd but rather within designers, start-up founders, people willing to make a career change and maybe CS students. As for Rails, yes, there's a lot of magic happening but my goal would be to decompose that 'magic' to explain what really happens behind the scene as the goal would not be to teach how to copy code (like many, many online courses are doing) but rather how to write it. My main skill is C# and ASP.NET but I don't consider it either as a good starting point for a beginner. PHP could be good as well but writing good code in PHP is very challenging for a beginner (in my opinion and experience). Also, PHP, even though it's used on loads of sites, is not a 'hot' technology anymore. Lastly, I would like to have fun creating this course... ...and I'm having loads of fun writing Ruby!

shire 13y ago
Hot technology? PHP has more jobs than Ruby and Python put together. Theres still a lot of legacy code. You teach a beginner Ruby on Rails he will have less of a chance finding a job than you teach with PHP. Only people using Ruby on Rails is mainly startups and I'm sure they are not looking for people who just started learning Ruby on Rails. PHP gives you a clear overview how you can embed code in an HTML and also use a database with it makes much more sense. I will definitely pay for it if you went this route but I got my fingers crossed good luck.
- nicoschuele 13y ago
  Thanks for the comment. Actually, PHP, I don't want. For several reasons: I want to teach concepts used in real world situations such as test driven development, object oriented programming, MVC, etc... and for all of these reasons, PHP is not a strong candidate. I know there are more jobs opportunities for Java, PHP, .NET, etc... but my goal is also not to produce corporate drones but passionate people :-)

shire 13y ago

Hot technology? PHP has more jobs than Ruby and Python put together. Theres still a lot of legacy code. You teach a beginner Ruby on Rails he will have less of a chance finding a job than you teach with PHP. Only people using Ruby on Rails is mainly startups and I'm sure they are not looking for people who just started learning Ruby on Rails. PHP gives you a clear overview how you can embed code in an HTML and also use a database with it makes much more sense. I will definitely pay for it if you went this route but I got my fingers crossed good luck.

nicoschuele 13y ago
Thanks for the comment. Actually, PHP, I don't want. For several reasons: I want to teach concepts used in real world situations such as test driven development, object oriented programming, MVC, etc... and for all of these reasons, PHP is not a strong candidate. I know there are more jobs opportunities for Java, PHP, .NET, etc... but my goal is also not to produce corporate drones but passionate people :-)