CodeCoach: I'm here to help!

[Natasha Murashev]

Hi Everyone, 

It's been a long time since we all decided to learn to code, and I've learned A LOT on my long journey to becoming a web developer. I'm proud to say that I finally build my very first app, Tweetmark.co, which lets you bookmark your tweets, and I'm currently building a Yelp for online courses, EduScore.co (still in production...). 

One of the things that got me through to this point was having a great mentor to turn to along the way, and I want to bring the same experience to other beginner coders. I've also tried almost every resource for learning out there, and have come up with an effective program for teaching beginners Ruby on Rails. 

I had two friends ask me to help them learn to code, so I figured I'd extend the same offer to all of you if you're still interested in learning and would like to get some personal attention during the process. I'm charging $100/week/student, and here is the outline of what you'll learn: 

• Phase 0: Personal Learning Plan. Get a personal learning plan based on your specific goals, time availability, and expectations. Come up with a project you hope to build.  
• Phase 1: Understanding how to think like a programmer. You will start learning by working with a fun Karel the Robot computer language. Karel the Robot has only a few commands, so you can focus on understanding higher-level programming concepts and logic without having to deal with the language-specific details. 
• Phase 2: Mastering Ruby. You will learn the fun Ruby programming language. At the end of this phase, you'll get to crawl websites and work with the API of your choice (Foursquare perhaps?). 
• Phase 3: HTML / CSS. Learn how to make very simple static web pages using HTML and CSS. 
• Phase 4: Riding the Rails. Put it all together with Ruby on Rails. Learn how to interact with a database and build fun and dynamic web pages. 
• Phase 5: Build Your Own Project. What's the point of learning if you can't apply it all? Take what you learned and build your first Ruby on Rails application. 

The program depends completely on your personal time commitment and your pace of learning, so there is no assigned timeline. Every week you decide whether you want to stick with it and keep paying, so there isn't much risk if you don't like it for any reason. 

Let me know if you're interested. 

Happy Learning!

Natasha

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[Kimberly]

Hi Natasha 

How many works per week? Is it in person or virtual ? Sounds great.

Best

Kimberly 

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[Natasha Murashev]

Hey Kimberly, 

So after some meditating last night, I realized that I really LOVE coding. It's really been a blast making stuff, and my goal is to continue pushing out code. This means that I need to spend my time focused more on coding and getting a job as an Rails developer rather than being really heavily involved in teaching students and going all in into starting my own business (I will be doing that on side, but it's more of a longer term plan). 

However, I'm still excited to get my friends to learn and I have at least 3 other people who are interested. So what if instead we just have a weekly meetup for free (would Saturday or Sunday morning work out for you?). I can give you goals and materials for the week and it's your responsibility to accomplish them. I recommend putting aside at least 10 hours per week on this. You can communicate with the other meetup members if you get stuck, and I'll help out as well. 

Let me know if you'd be interested in something like this instead, 

Natasha

[Elizabeth Presson]

Hi Natasha, 

If this is a meetup group that would be free, I'd love to join. Although I'm not physically in the area, I'd love to join via Skype or Google Hangouts. 

Would that be possible? 

Liz 

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[Katerina Jackson]

Hey Natasha, 

Thanks so much for this! I will be interested in something like that, definitely. 

I am also not physically in SF but can do Saturday mornings Google Hangouts to review a material for the week and discussed what worked/what not last week and what can be improved :)

I also have 2 project on my list I've been sitting on 5 months already so its the time to start working towards building them :)

Thanks!

Katia

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[Delanie West]

Please remove me from this email thread. Thanks!

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Natasha Murashev <nmur...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Delanie West]

Please remove me from this email thread. Thanks!

[Katerina Jackson]

Delanie, I think you can exit this thread yourself, just hit a button in Google groups you are a part of.

[Jen Pleimann]

Hi Natasha,

Thanks for the information!  It's a great idea.  I need to think about it a little bit as I am currently over committed and trying to sort out my schedule and determine where to best focus my attention.  While I am interested in learning to code, I am involved w/ a large project right now where it is probably in my best interest to stay focus on the biz development.  With that being said, I would love to grow my knowledge and have a stronger understanding of the back end so I am able to communicate better with my programmers/developers.  I would definitely be interested in hearing suggestions/thoughts on learning enough basics to get me started (classes, etc).

Keep me updated about the meet-up as well as that could possibly help!

Thanks and good luck,

Jen

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[Meenal Balar]

Hi Natasha - great idea!

I'm in a similar situation as Jen P. describes below, but would be very interested in learning basics from the group sessions. Would love to hear details about the meet-up when ready.

Thanks!

Meenal