kaiwren

Yes, and that's a service. There is no product.

We’re all focused on the symptom. Software valuations are falling, and the discourse is about why software valuations are falling.

The deeper thing is this: the traditional economics of software - the idea that building software creates an asset - is breaking.

awesome!

I think you are right, and that makes me sad.

We already support teaching most of these - if you know anyone that would like to create courseware around any of these topics please let us know.

Our courseware marketplace is still in a private alpha, but we are actively soliciting awesome hackers that would like to teach online.

We're building our way up to this. For now, we are focussing on helping more people teach how to think in a particular language.

We'll get to the rest fairly quickly, though that would likely be in the form of screencasts.

PS: I'm on the CodeMonk team, the folks that are behind PythonMonk.com and RubyMonk.com

It is. It's what Matz tweeted after we launched RubyMonk at RubyConf in New Orleans last year. Here's the original tweet he made: https://twitter.com/yukihiro_matz/status/126447696478347265

Wow. Thank you! That's quite a complement, and I'm grateful.

I should point out that much of what I say - or write about - are from conversations with my colleagues. I just happen to be the most vocal among us :)

It'll be a while yet, but there's a reason we've bought that domain :)

No worries, jfaucett. As a bootstrapped startup with no investors and no connections, we need all the PR we can get :)

So thank you for posting this!

It's a known issue with the js code editor we're using and is something that we need to fix.

Thanks for the heads up!

I'm not sure (and I'm not complaining about the publicity :)) - but this is the third time we've made it to HN. Yes, RubyMonk was launched in August 2011, so we've been around for over a year.

Noted. Makes sense, and thanks for the feedback.

Thanks for the feedback (I work at C42 Engineering, the programmers collective behind RubyMonk).

I'd never heard of Perl Monks before you mentioned it - it's something we'll keep in mind. I'm not sure how it will influence us, but it's good to know.

Try http://RubyMonk.com and let us know what you think. In it's current setup, the content is not intended for non-programmers, but we'd love the feedback.

I didn't realise HN expires links, allowing them to be reposted after enough time has passed (we'd posted RubyMonk to HN several months ago).

Any idea what that time-period is?

I'm not sure coconuts actually age. Do they?

The problem is that the underlying message implies that the Mayor of NYC can be gainfully employed as a programmer after a year of solving code snippets. Which is BS and very misleading. More at http://blog.sidu.in/2012/05/everyone-should-learn-programmin...

A fundamental grouse I have with the "Learn programming" meme is that it encourages the myth that you can be gainfully employed as a programmer after solving code snippets for a year. I've written this out in greater detail at http://blog.sidu.in/2012/05/everyone-should-learn-programmin...

Also, http://rubymonk.com (disclaimer: by my firm).

Currently has free courses with new, paid content coming shortly. $5 per month, all you can eat for access to the paid courses (free courses remain free). Course creators get royalties (and keep copyright, of course).

Thanks for the feedback - I've opened a ticket and we should have this sorted shortly.

Sorry - I guess we were all asleep (passed out?) when this happened. I'm glad it's working, but I'll log a ticket anyway.

Also, thanks for the feedback. Let us know if there's anything else we should be fixing/changing - you can reach us at [email protected]

Thank you vaidy, we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the support of folks like yourself, and the awesome Ruby community in general.

Noted, and thank you for the feedback. Please do let us know if there's any other feedback you have - you can email us at [email protected].

We'll be working on smoothing out the cross references to exercises, so problems will tell you exactly what exercises you need to read up on so you can complete them.

Sure - the front end is basically a Rails based custom CMS that allows us to write content in 'RubyMonk flavoured' HAML.

This is backed by servers that are running a bunch of eval loops using the Secure gem. See https://github.com/c42/secure if you're interested in the SandBoxing.