[p2pu-webcraft] What are the core topics that should always have active study groups?
Alison Jean Cole
alisonjean.cole at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 20:25:49 UTC 2011
Wesley,
You might be interested in diycomputerscience.com.
Wesley's interested in a more general computer technology school for P2PU.
ALISON
p2pu.org/users/alison
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:19 AM, Parag Shah <adaptives at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Pippa,
>
> I am actually trying to do something similar at diycomputerscience.com
>
> I call the 'always on' courses, 'DIY Courses<http://diycomputerscience.com/courses/list>',
> and fixed schedule courses are 'Study Groups<http://diycomputerscience.com/studysessions/currentlist>'.
> I have some material which I have curated from what is available for re-use
> on a commercially friendly Creative Commons license. I am also in the
> process of talking to some people to create more material, all of which will
> be made public on a Creative Commons license.
>
> BTW I am open sourcing the software which is powering
> diycomputerscience.com as well. I am developing it using the Play
> Framework <http://playframework.org/> on Java. Here's the code
> https://github.com/adaptives/sole
>
> The code has been written in a hurry because I wanted to get this thing out
> before May (internship time), and is in bad shape... but I will be improving
> things over time...
>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards
> Parag Shah
> http://blog.adaptivesoftware.biz
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:42 PM, Pippa Buchanan <Pippa.Buchanan at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> So, a group which is about choosing appropriate tools for specific jobs?
>> Perhaps comparisons of frameworks could be part of a larger goal of specing
>> out projects?
>>
>> Where would we start looking to find the best resources for this type of
>> group to use?
>>
>> P*
>>
>> On 20 April 2011 20:09, Atul Varma <avarma at mozilla.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Some kind of group that teaches you how to make sense of the innumerable
>>> server-side languages/frameworks out there would be awesome.
>>>
>>> Typed on a tiny keyboard.
>>>
>>> On Apr 20, 2011, at 8:51 AM, Pippa Buchanan <pipstar.battlecat at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> One of the great things about the new P2PU study group model is that it's
>>> flexible enough to remain active beyond a traditional course time span and
>>> can be collaboratively improved by participants. This gives School of
>>> Webcraft the opportunity to setup core study groups and tasks for a number
>>> of topics and to work with their initial creators to keep them up to date
>>> and administered by other study group members.
>>>
>>> What are the default study groups that people should *always* be able to
>>> participate in?
>>> And can you suggest who'd be able to create the study group, and be the
>>> initial adminstrator.(main responsibility: accept sign-ups from
>>> participants, but also act as the initial curator of materials and tasks)?
>>>
>>> My first pass ideas are:
>>>
>>> - Basic Web Publishing - Finding a webhost, FTP
>>> - HTML - Web Page Structure and Semantics
>>> - CSS - Styling Your Web Pages
>>> - JavaScript Basics- Add interaction and complexity
>>> - JQuery
>>>
>>> These have a very core, front-end focus - but pretty much cover the
>>> basics that people have to know - whether they're a professional web
>>> developer, a hobbyist, or someone who web develops as part of another job (
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>
>
> --
> Thanks & Regards
> Parag Shah
> http://blog.adaptivesoftware.biz
>
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