From: SonOfLilit <sonoflilit@...>
Date: 2007-02-17T00:49:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Adopt-a-newbie? Based on actual experience.

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It is focused on answering trivial questions and on the kind of dialog and
guidance that will more often develop in 1:1 than in a group.

As I already said, issues which are fit for ruby-talk should still be
discussed in ruby-talk.

More than that, I would like there to be a system that records those
mentoring sessions who's participants agree to be public and allows public
browsing and searching of them. With that, I think that instead of
decreasing, the amount of available material for Ruby learners/practicers
will dramatically INCREASE.

Now if only someone had the time/will to build such a system...


Aur Saraf

On 2/16/07, CHubas <CHubas7@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Feb 15, 1:23 am, |MKSM| <mksm.s...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Although I have only been lurking on this list for a couple of months,
> I
> > > have been totally impressed with the expertise of the Ruby community,
> > > the help offered and the lack of flames. None of what I have offered
> > > today I think should get in the way of this.
> >
> > I agree with Jim. That is a fact in the Ruby community.
> >
> > I wander a lot in Ruby's IRC channel at Freenode. I believe that the
> > easiest way of a newbie getting help is to just ask. If the person
> > doesn't want to just shoot the question out in the open, we could have
> > a few frequent IRC users that will help them through private messages.
> >
> > Having a channel full of mentors is somehow better than binding a
> > newbie to only one person.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ricardo Amorim
>
>
>
> I agree with him somehow.
>
> In my short (but pleasant) experience with programming, as a newbie I
> started looking for resources, forums and sources of information. Ruby
> was my first language, and what made it special is that, although
> there are not too many libraries or information in English, this
> groups made (my) learning experience good.
>
> I cannot say I'm a total newbie, but I think part of that learning is
> to search, to ask. That's what the forums are for, and to make that
> process 'private' may benefit one person, but I think it will private
> that information to others. I cannot say I'm a newbie, but a lot of
> what I've learnt has been through this forum. (Yeah, I'm a lurker too)
>
> Not that is not a good idea, but it has to be more focused on oslve
> specific doubts or give more extensive help to someone. I find it a
> great idea to be tutor of some people of the same language, for
> example.
>
> Probably I'm not the best person to say it, but it's my point of view.
>
>
>

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