Offer HN: I'll help you become a hacker
I want to help people make things, and I want to become a better hacker, teacher, and writer. Teaching people to become hackers over email kills all three birds with one stone. :)
So if you are a non-technical HNewser who wants to start hacking, I want to help you. The idea is that we'll figure out what you want to learn, then three times a week we'll correspond via email. And over time, you'll learn technical skills -- and more importantly, I'll help you learn how to learn technical skills.
What to expect from me:
- Help choosing learning materials
- Answers to your questions.
- Help coming up with projects (homework!)
- Comments on the work you do
- Commitment for 30 days, then we'll reevaluate
Server side:
- PHP
- Ruby on Rails,
- MySQL,
- Apache administration
Client side:
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript ( jQuery optional )
- Design
- Usability
Basics:
- Setting up your computer ( Linux / Mac / Windows ) for development
- Git version control
- Unit testing
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"Teach a person to hack and they'll hack. Teach a person to learn to hack and they'll gradually become a ninja-rockstar-guru over the rest of their life."
It's possible that friendships and collaborations could come out of this, but I'm already working on bootstrapping a startup, and we aren't looking to expand our team. And probably won't have money to hire people for quite a long time.
Although, now that you mention it, I'm going to file this away as an idea for how to find good people in the future. Thanks!
No ulterior motives or schemes, I promise. But now that I think about it, you can add "wanting to talk shop" to the list.