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just writing future ones?
@knuxus is it as a coach that you want to attend? The waiting list for coaches is never that long (just checked again, there are 3 people now, and another one was already allocated a spot)
@knuxus sorry I missed the previous messages. You should definitely coach! Invitations go out on Wednesday night usually, so if you respond by Thursday morning, or even Friday (for the coach invitations) you should get a spot. The tutorials are all open source at github.com/codebar/tutorials so you can improve things, pick up existing issues or if you have any suggestions about missing tutorials you are more than welcome to do one. Pretty sure I have a brief guide on taht somewhere, just need to find it. :)
Hi everybody. I've signed up as a new coach at codebar. I was working through the JS tutorials and I thought that the AJAX Part 2 would be a good place to introduce functions in JS as first class entities and some basic information hiding techniques using closures. Thoughts? Comments? Thanks.
njacobs5074: pretty big opinions seeing as I haven't done any work toward it :P
Am I being silly here but when I try to download the files for the javascript tutorial here http://tutorials.codebar.io/js/lesson2/tutorial.html the download file is unreadable as its a strange compressed one, not a regular zip file?
I made a regular zip-file version https://www.dropbox.com/s/kgnlfkz4dqn0nsa/gistd46495ce986d1624af45-3e5f6e1f3100045d2c0fd00e998edf7101c284de%202.zip?dl=0
We recommend 7-zip in the getting started guide, but I don't know if that's "adequate" or "actually good".
@creature @barisbalic I do see your respective points about having a "redux" with closures & functions and then the overloading concern. I'll hold onto this thought for now because obviously you want to introduce these more advanced concepts at the right juncture. Thanks for your feedback.
It would be really nice to have a tutorial on closures to add to the other tutorials
And I'm sure we can pair you up with a student at Codebar so you can get some live feedback on it.
@triblondon not sure, but tweet your question to @nodunayo, our host at Pivotal Labs, she’ll be able to help.
Also some people (like myself) have dog allergies, and the room at the Pivotal Labs offices is rather small, but I guess sitting far away from the dog should not be a problem :)
Hi, I subscribed to Cambridge group as coach. I am still not sure though how much knowledge am I supposed to have. I've been developing PHP web apps for 9 years now. I think I have enough experience to guide anyone through the first tutorials except the Ruby one. Do you think that's a problem? I could go thŕough the Ruby tutorial and learn it, but there is no chance that I will have answers to every problem the students may have.
@tomasfejfar As a coach at the London codebar group, most coaches only coach some of the tutorials, so it's not necessary to know everything. Many students have little experience, so the role of coaches is to be part of a supportive environment, just as much as answering questions. Have a good time coaching!
@tomasfejfar Another thing is: saying "I don't know either. How could we find out?" is usually a good opportunity for teaching - both you and the student learns something. :) Stuff like "How do I answer my own questions?" and "How do I figure out if this StackOverflow answer applies to me?" is a skill that isn't covered in the tutorials, but is super-useful.
cheers
@knuxus I can see in the admin interface that he's signed up OK as a London student - I guess that's what he was aiming for? We don't send confirmation emails AFAIK but he should have got a general welcome email. This week's workshop is pretty full, but he should now have an invite that will let him join the waiting list.
what language are you after?