CCademy

Perhaps we should not have 4 or so topics that all pertain to the same end, if anything you could easily collaborate with the others and the ones who've signed up for their servers. (CCU's I mean)

I find it quite idiotic for there to be copies of the same thing just popping up recently…
Yes I do know that you plan to make this entirely web based rather than server.

The lessons I took on codeacademy didn't really stick with me though, so perhaps it's just me. What would you plan on doing though to make this project succeed? (Hint: Don't shut down after a single month of work.)

This idea is a lot more preferable, or at least in my eyes. What kind of learning content will be used to teach? video, text, interactive activities? Considering the fact that majority of the ComputerCraft community are under the age of 18, they may find that things such as videos and interactive activities a lot more attractive than slabs of text.

cdel, on 17 March 2015 - 05:11 AM said:

This idea is a lot more preferable, or at least in my eyes. What kind of learning content will be used to teach? video, text, interactive activities? Considering the fact that majority of the ComputerCraft community are under the age of 18, they may find that things such as videos and interactive activities a lot more attractive than slabs of text.

Actually you might be surprised. At least acording to displayed ages. Although I'd actually asume that most under 18 just aren't displaying their age publicly. My forum stats site (which isn't finished or released at all) says that most users who've specified their birthday are 20 - 30.



Anyway.

To be honest, I think the Tutorials section can do this already can't it? Although this would be a nicer experience I'd presume. You could get content from it probably.

perhaps your website could 'index' the tutorial/ask a pro sections of the forums and provide video versions of the content we already have. By indexing it people will be able to find what they are looking for quicker (less new posts asking the same thing)

Dragon53535, on 17 March 2015 - 04:24 AM said:

Perhaps we should not have 4 or so topics that all pertain to the same end, if anything you could easily collaborate with the others and the ones who've signed up for their servers. (CCU's I mean)

I find it quite idiotic for there to be copies of the same thing just popping up recently…
Yes I do know that you plan to make this entirely web based rather than server.

The lessons I took on codeacademy didn't really stick with me though, so perhaps it's just me. What would you plan on doing though to make this project succeed? (Hint: Don't shut down after a single month of work.)

I learned bootstrap and all my web related skills from codecademy and I still remember all of it. You might just not be the right kind of learner to benefit from their teachings.

cdel, on 17 March 2015 - 05:11 AM said:

This idea is a lot more preferable, or at least in my eyes. What kind of learning content will be used to teach? video, text, interactive activities? Considering the fact that majority of the ComputerCraft community are under the age of 18, they may find that things such as videos and interactive activities a lot more attractive than slabs of text.

I may offer videos along with the text lessons. The text lessons will not be "slabs of text" though, I will try to keep them very small and short, but informative. Also it will be fully interactive, it will teach you something (video/text), you then type out code in a in-browser editor (maybe with a chatroom/irc box for help), then it will run it in a simplified emulator like mimic. It will tell you if you've done something wrong, and hopefully give you dynamic hints.

oeed, on 17 March 2015 - 07:01 AM said:

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To be honest, I think the Tutorials section can do this already can't it? Although this would be a nicer experience I'd presume. You could get content from it probably.

I will be using existing resources to create the tutorials. It would be pretty unwise not to. And the tutorial section is quite unorganized and hard to be exactly what your looking for.

Lupus590, on 17 March 2015 - 07:46 AM said:

perhaps your website could 'index' the tutorial/ask a pro sections of the forums and provide video versions of the content we already have. By indexing it people will be able to find what they are looking for quicker (less new posts asking the same thing)

Yes, it will contain an organized page of all good tutorials out there. Also each lesson will have a learn more/reinforce section where it links to tutorial relating to that lesson.

I can help with web design to an extent. I know the basics of HTML and CSS and can get a start on a site and a more advanced person clean it up and improve it.

I am a web designer? and backend developer?:D/> I also know javascript :P/> My actual job is a web designer :P/>

CloudNinja, on 17 March 2015 - 10:39 PM said:

I can help with web design to an extent. I know the basics of HTML and CSS and can get a start on a site and a more advanced person clean it up and improve it.

Unfortunately I do believe you can't really help this project. It will all be open-source so feel free to read over it and gives us any thoughts you have.

DannySMc, on 17 March 2015 - 10:52 PM said:

I am a web designer? and backend developer? :D/> I also know javascript :P/> My actual job is a web designer :P/>

Sure, you can help. What's your skype?

AssossaGPB, on 17 March 2015 - 11:08 PM said:

CloudNinja, on 17 March 2015 - 10:39 PM said:

I can help with web design to an extent. I know the basics of HTML and CSS and can get a start on a site and a more advanced person clean it up and improve it.

Unfortunately I do believe you can't really help this project. It will all be open-source so feel free to read over it and gives us any thoughts you have.

DannySMc, on 17 March 2015 - 10:52 PM said:

I am a web designer? and backend developer? :D/> I also know javascript :P/> My actual job is a web designer :P/>

Sure, you can help. What's your skype?

errr, what's yours because I log in with my email?:S which is danny.smc95@gmail.com

So what reasoning is there for me to not be able to help really?

Me, as a Zambonie (n. pro. Zamb-own-ee : A strange, tall creature lurking in the high mountains of the Tatras) am now forcing myself to be another web dev/lesson writer.

… :)/>

CloudNinja, on 18 March 2015 - 12:25 AM said:

So what reasoning is there for me to not be able to help really?

Well, the site will be fairly complicated, so having a beginner will just hinder our progress. Just like companies don't hire people who just learned that skill. Nothing against you, I'd be happy to let you help, but you should go get some more experience first please.

I know what im doing, i just dont know how to do fancy looking buttons or anything.

CloudNinja, on 18 March 2015 - 10:15 AM said:

I know what im doing, i just dont know how to do fancy looking buttons or anything.

Then you don't? Experience is key, and you're post said that you know the basics? Do you understand the box model? without having to Google it, do you know how to create templates that would work with a backend populating a web page? Do you even know what a CMS is? He isn't trying to be rude, please leave it; as it isn't a big deal, and he is definitely not going to let you help if you are getting moody because he won't let you? If you are really that bothered make something (that is all yours!!!) and show him? otherwise stop asking.

Anyway he has offered that you give feedback on the source code? For now that would be awesome as every programmer/scripter is going to make a mistake or two, if you are there keeping an eye on what we make you could really help?

The newest version of Nova will have a video app (not yet), so once that comes out, you can put computercraft screencapture videos on it to help people.

LDDestroier, on 18 March 2015 - 01:04 PM said:

The newest version of Nova will have a video app (not yet), so once that comes out, you can put computercraft screencapture videos on it to help people.

That would be cool, but you kinda need voice to explain it and cc doesn't support that kind of stuff.

AssossaGPB, on 18 March 2015 - 05:48 PM said:

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Unless someone created a peripheral that could( if that's possible ). :P/>

TheOddByte, on 21 March 2015 - 09:30 PM said:

AssossaGPB, on 18 March 2015 - 05:48 PM said:

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Unless someone created a peripheral that could( if that's possible ). :P/>

Next idea of a mod to make :P/>

TheOddByte, on 21 March 2015 - 09:30 PM said:

AssossaGPB, on 18 March 2015 - 05:48 PM said:

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Unless someone created a peripheral that could( if that's possible ). :P/>

Well you do have Peripheral++'s Speaker that uses Google's Text to Speech API.

I'd help with server side scripting, but as 50 people have said already, I'm wasting my time offering my skills.

You guys need to make sure you're following the rules in the Server Forum Rules sticky. If you don't have a server active yet, then we'll have to lock the thread until you can provide information for how to connect or join.