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by bphogan 11y ago
The part you're missing is what you bring to the table? Why would an experienced programmer choose to spend their time helping you? It's obvious what's in it for you, but what about the other side? I've mentored a lot of
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by bphogan 11y ago
Depends on the screenreader. And unfortunately, also depends on the screenreader + browser. If the proper HTML tags are used, and role attributes are applied, it should work fairly well. The concern, however, is the weight of the page. But
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I'm writing http://codecaster.io , a tool for teachers to help students in software development classes. Been working on it for over a year and been using it in my classes. I'm looking for other teachers interested in u
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> it would be nice if an online course site allowed searching within all the subtitles of all the videos it hosts, Yes it would. But a lot of the videos I see are not subtitled. They should be though, for accessibility purposes.
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I have a question - if you're only using sockets for push, why not use SSE instead? Or did you encounter serious issues with that?
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by bphogan 11y ago
Sure but they all end up being used as a build tool. Webpack may be a module bundler, but it has hot reloading, live reloading, and plugins to transpile. Watch any React tutorial and the first thing they have you do is set up a Webpack conf
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> If I could get away with a Makefile, I probably would. You kinda can. I'm seriously considering that in conjunction with < http://entrproject.org/> for watching file changes. I wrote the book Automate With
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by bphogan 11y ago
That sounds really complicated to me. Lots of moving parts to maintain. What is Sidekiq doing for you?
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by bphogan 11y ago
I love Rails. And in 2014 I wanted to build a very specific type of realtime app with Rails. I used Faye-websocket and Redis and got everything working with Puma.... and it fell flat on its face. I learned enough Elixir and Phoenix to be d
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I really want to use my Surface for development, but I can't get it to work. Most of the work I do is command-line driven (Ruby, Elixir, Node) and I am so used to Vim that the experience is just awful on Windows. I've installed Cm
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My point was that it's a poor reason for removing it from a language. Believe it or not the concept of x = 5 is harder to understand. They know that = means equality, because of algebra. I have to retrain prior knowledge, and since hum
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One of the reasons they state is that ++ makes it harder for beginners. I just taught ++ and -- to 1st semester students last week. There were no problems.
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One thing we've been watching is that there are less people graduating high school - in other words, there are less people in the school system now. We've been preparing for this for a couple years now by looking to attract more v
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No stress and pressure because nobody asks anything of you as a student. It's entertainment, not education. It's like watching TLC or the History Channel. I get that. And that's totally cool. Where things get messy is when pe
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by bphogan 11y ago
As a teacher, nothing makes me sadder than to see people not complete. It feels like I failed to keep them engaged. I taught a free software development course online for three summers in a row. Completion was awful. To be blunt, I won&#x2
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Look what you're saying though - you're agreeing with me. 1. You were motivated to learn. 2. The in-class time wasted your time with 15 minutes of chit-chat rather than purposeful doing. 3. Pausing is key. But you are motivated to
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by bphogan 11y ago
So you just have to remember enough to complete the test that occurs right after the lecture, which is all short-term memory. Retention is long-term. And I have taken those quizzes; I don't believe they test for understanding very well
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by bphogan 11y ago
Warning - most of this is just my opinion as a student and as a teacher in adult education. The article talks about a lot of this which makes me happy. Lecture is my biggest problem with MOOCs. Lecture is the easiest and laziest way to teac
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by bphogan 11y ago
Is Apple really that much more expensive? Or is that just something that people believe because it used to be true? I keep hearing this repeated, but I bought my dad a $499 Mac Mini. With Microsoft producing a laptop of their own that st
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by bphogan 11y ago
Got my mother-in-law one for the same reasons. She loves it.
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Exactly. The correct answer to "Why are you wearing a suit" should always be "Why aren't you ?" Suit up!
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No, I see this everywhere. There's a large segment of the software industry that believes their way is right, and everything else is wrong. The phone you use, the computer you use, etc. Recently I had someone tell me that if you'r
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It's not entirely effective if you can get grants and loans to pay for it though.
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MIT is launching a micro degree that is open-enrollment-based. The number of students in K-12 is trending downward, thus the number of students in the pipeline is also trending downward. So more schools are opening their doors to bring in m
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by bphogan 11y ago
Yes, I mean that. It's so tricky because you do get a percentage of folks that are not realistic about the expectations or requirements. But you handle demand the way other open enrollment places do - with waiting lists.
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I agree with all of this. But I've seen people who came from nothing rise to the occasion and turn things around. And if we'd screened them out, the world would be worse off for it. The perspective they bring demonstrates the true
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edits to correct typos made on my phone. I am skeptical of developer bootcamps because they often aren't open enrollment. You generally have to have the aptitude and background to get through their admissions process and interview.
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by bphogan 11y ago
And yet this same company requires that we apply specific standards to our web pages lest we be deranked on their search engine. :)
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This. I would love, as an author and teacher, to keep my flowcharts, diagrams, etc with my book code. Right now I'm using SVG for that, but it's kinda rotten.
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by bphogan 11y ago
Thank you kindly for this concise and well explained answer. I truly appreciate the time you took with your explanations.

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