A reminder about the programming course survey!

[Nathan Dotz]

While you're all out having fun at the party tonight, I'll be catching up with some family that I've sorely missed while on a rather demanding project  for the last 2-ish months. What you should also do it goad one another into filling out this survey so we at AHA can bring our wealth of teaching experience up to i3 and maybe even keep our bills paid over the holidays.

Here's what we know so far:

75% of you pretend you know what you're talking about in public. Judging by some of the respondents, you are more modest to internet forms than in real life.

Resoundingly you all support ruby over python (sad face!) with 50% wanted a ruby class, and 38% explicitly NOT wanting a python class. (A reminder though -- it's harder to robot with ruby.)

Nobody gives a shit about TDD. Or Haskell.

You think sinatra might be interesting, probably because it has ruby next to it.

Despite being admittedly novice programmers, ~40% of you think you can learn to create mobile apps from scratch without knowledge of java, and then attach those to a web service. I see you all like challenges!

Exactly 1 of you likes javascript.

You are overwhelmingly interested in git, and are tepid about vim.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGF4Z3N6RTZ0RVRxdEQ0MXhRc3M1ZGc6MQ#gid=0

So, go fill out this form, and let's teach you some tappa tappa at the codings so you've got something to do while you're snowed in.

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- nathan dotz
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Detroit Labs' Code Derper Extraordinaire

AHA's Matron of harsh advice.

Hey, I spoke at OSON: http://goo.gl/sCVQf

http://www.sleepynate.com

[nathan dotz]

TLDR; Git class coming soon to AHA and i3, Doodle link at the bottom.

First off -- graphs!
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All responses: http://imgur.com/a/n7iEo
i3 Responses: http://imgur.com/a/93EGo
AHA Responses: http://imgur.com/a/wFq41

Thank you to the 16 of you who filled out the survey. As you can see most of you think you kind of know how to program. Based on my experience, that is debatable, but the same applies to me and I'm teaching the damn classes.

- First off, you are mostly still vehemently opposed to python. You're making Guido cry.
- Also, still nobody gives a poop about functional. <foreveralone.jpg>
- Ruby? Really? Hipsters. It's K though, Ruby class coming up, because it relates to…
- Servers with phones talking to them? Yea you guys want this. We can do that in ruby.
- Git is the low-hanging fruit that everyone is OK with.

So, I'll be teaching some Git-tery at i3 and AHA End of November/Beginning of December! However, you folks should fill out a survey below for your respective space for an evening/weekend that works best for you!

Class at i3: http://doodle.com/q9rt7hh8xbt3xv53
Class at AHA: http://www.doodle.com/txpwkmzr93r39f74

Also, if you still want to fill in the programming survey, please do! Better data = better classes.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGF4Z3N6RTZ0RVRxdEQ0MXhRc3M1ZGc6MQ#gid=0

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