As we are all aware, this place is jam-packed with people with the most amazing skills, knowledge, talents and what have you.
We are also a generous bunch who love to share our knowledge with others hungry to learn.
This led to me thinking that we could take this to an extra level. As well as all the help that is on the boards, which is often of a very specific nature, maybe we could team up for more in-depth “training” in various areas. If somone offered to mentor you, you could exchange IM addys for example and have a more in-depth contact. So, let’s say somone posts “I want to learn Swedish, and would love a Swedish speaking mentor”, I might take them on and we could email a couple of times a week, or have an IM session each week where we work on it.
If somone agreed to take me on and mentor me as a newbie-programmer then they would agree to try and answer the questions that are so stupid they aren’t even in the FAQs, or even just to encourage me when I am feeling stupid and that there is no point trying to learn this.
If we are going to do this, I rekon it makes most sense to have people request a mentor and let somone pick you up. If people put down what they can offer they might get spammed out by screaming aprentices. So, what you think?
I’d also like to add my support to the idea - I’d be happy to mentor one or two people in various subjects (Admittedly a rather small set of ‘various subjects’, but various nonetheless. ), and might even put in a request for a mentor at some point.
Awesome idea, imo. I guess I’m not good enough at any one thing to offer my services as a mentor but I hope this concept takes off. I’d love to see it happen.
Sounds like fun. Anyone who wants to get into puzzle construction, feel free to contact me – or gardening. (See all the various gardening threads I’ve posted to )
I have a friend that knows like 9 different languages and he always used to tell me that the big problem with the way they teach foreign languages in US schools is that they start you off with all the grammar and proper sentence structure and stuff (which you know is true if you’ve ever taken a class here.) He believed you should learn enough to get by at first and the rest would come later.
Ha! Now that I have lured you all in, anyone want to hold my hand as I try to learn an object-oriented programming language?
I am thinking either Java, Symbian or C++. I have some previous experience in for example php, but I usually need concepts explained to me with analogys (“if you think of it like a house, then…”). My problem is similar to that mentioned of foreign languages, they expect you to learn all the grammar first
Ha! Now that I have lured you all in, anyone want to hold my hand as I try to learn an object-oriented programming language?
I am thinking either Java, Symbian or C++. I have some previous experience in for example php, but I usually need concepts explained to me with analogys (“if you think of it like a house, then…”). My problem is similar to that mentioned of foreign languages, they expect you to learn all the grammar first
Hey, Haj. Are you at UCSB or living in SB making a living? What does an ME do in real life? Take me to work on Monday. (No big deal, of course. I’m just always on the lookout for things to learn.)
I’ve been involved in manufacturing and design but all of my structural ideas were based on the TLAR protocol.
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