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 Here are things I can help you with. Server side: - PHP - Ruby on Rails, - MySQL, - Apache administration Client side: - HTML - CSS - JavaScript ( jQuery optional ) - Design - Usability Basics:
Why it failed
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 th
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- jpadvo
- Ended
- 2011
- Source
- hackernews