From: ironmanusa@...
Date: 2010-09-01T06:07:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby / Rails Training

First off I haven't seen the syllabus but I am guessing you have 
the content I would be looking for. I am also happy to pay for 
access to the content and support tutoring. I am mailing back 
publicly in the hope others maybe as well and it would be worth 
your while financially to put something together. 

Ideal scenario for me would look something like this:

- Lay out 6 month schedule with fixed learnings and exercises 
(personally I need to start at very basics but am committed and 
have track record so not the lazy UW student)
- An hour every other week check-in using Skype (although I am in 
Seattle so Zoka or something might make more sense) to review 
exercises and go over things having challenges with
- Some sort of full day training in batches say 2 x 2 days at the 
end of each 3 month period

Like I said I am more than happy to pay for good tuition and good 
support. 


On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:00:24 -0700 Ryan Davis <ryand-
ruby@zenspider.com> wrote:
>On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:58 , ironmanusa@hushmail.com wrote:
>
>> The University of Washington was running a course but looks like 
>
>> its stopped this year in favor of  Objective-C. 
>
>we were... it didn't stop in favor of objc, it stopped because we 
>were putting way too much time into the course for what we were 
>getting paid. UW really was expecting us to do 4-6 hours a week 
>grading when in reality it was more like 20. I think that made it 
>a better class, but with many of the students having similar 
>expectations as UW (meaning, they were poor students and expecting 
>to be able to get away with shoddy work), the burnout level was 
>quite high on the instructor side.
>
>I still have all the materials and would be happy to share them in 
>some way... but I'm not willing to put 20 hours a week into 
>grading. (esp for free :)