Ask HN: I'm setting up some free coding classes, would you be interested?

11 points by davidmott 6 years ago | 7 comments

Hey everyone,

I just wanted to gather some opinions on whether this may be worthwhile. I'm thinking of setting up a free online class for entrepreneurs/beginners looking to learn about building websites, apps etc. I may even look for a public venue in the future if this is something of interest. If you'd like to sign up you're very welcome to reach out via my personal website found on my profile.

omarhaneef 6 years ago |

To answer your question: I have a huge interest in these sort of classes, take them regularly, but there are so many of these out there, one feels drowned in choices (embarrassed from the riches?).

Is there something different, if you have ideas for a new angle, please share.

Typically there are youtube videos, udacity, coursera, edx, freecodecamp, medium posts and dozens of others who try to tackle this.

davidmott 6 years ago | |

Understood! I thought perhaps the more there is available out there the better. I also come from an angle where my experience is from building products for start-ups/entrepreneurs rather than the usual purely academic stance. I thought it would also give an insight on how these products are actually built and what's required. But I appreciate where you’re coming from!

omarhaneef 6 years ago | | |

That might be a great angle, but what does that mean for the course? Does that mean you will take us through deployment on AWS/Heroku? Does that mean you include testing etc?

Consider Hartl's (famous) Rail tutorial: https://www.railstutorial.org/book

Will it be different from that?

I do there is a market for copying Hartl for Django, Vue/Node, etc

Faction 6 years ago |

Hey, I'm actually looking to hire a dev, sent you an email now.