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