[Courses] missing out on irc

[Emma Fox]

Hmm, I intend to be emailing mostly, I see what you mean...

I think Dalnet has a system whereby they save and archive useful chat 
sessions in their help channel.  I would be a lot of work for someone, 
but might be a way around the problem?

Having said that, I don't think emailers will miss out, if they need 
questions answered they can still post, and it's possible that new 
programmers who learnt something on irc will be able to consolidate and 
share their new knowledge by answering.  This would make it a true 
community learning experience (which I am very much in favour of) and 
the people who were putting the most in (and hanging around on irc) 
would get the most out of it.

I think the irc channel is still a good idea.

Cheers
Emma

Tania M. Morell wrote:

> I gues having an irc channel is ok for those who want it but I can think of
> one reason for not having it and limiting all discussion to e-mail only.
> I'm sure that during irc discusstions, a lot of things may be
> said/solved/discovered about C or a C exercise, etc, that everyone else will
> missout on only becuase they weren't in the chat at the time.   I will
> probably never be able to get on the irc chat room becuase of my schedule
> and work.  I like to have e-mail I can read at my leisure  e-mail is nice
> because it can wait until the early morning or late hours when i can get
> around to reading them... irc chat has to be read on the spot. and it's not
> saved for everyone else to read and reference later.
> 
> As for course structure, doesn't that depend on the book that is decided on?
> If everyone ends up using the same book (and I think it should be this way)
> then the book will dictate what the structure will be.
> 
> -T
> 
>          T a n i a
> www.myquadrant.net
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "coldfire" <rolick571 at duq.edu>
> To: <tmorell at myquadrant.net>
> Cc: <courses at linuxchix.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2002 6:40 PM
> Subject: [Courses] Suggestions/Ideas
> 
> 
> 
>>ok, i've had a few thoughts in response to several threads we have going
>>on right now.  i had more, but i forgot them already :)
>>
>>i don't think there should be any discussion on whether or not we should
>>have an irc channel.  we should just have one :)  not for the purpose of
>>having scheduled meeting times to discuss concepts, but to provide real
>>time assistance, answer questions in real time, etc.
>>
>>as for "course structure" .. i bet most of us started off at about the
>>same spot, and the same pace.  i'd be more than happy to propose an
>>outline for topics to be covered ... focus primarly on the language,
>>syntax, etc and eventually move towards more complicated data structures
>>and algorithm design.
>>
>>well ... looks like by the time i wrote this, i forgot all my main points.
>>so here's some contact info for anyone wishing to contact me off the list:
>>
>>
>>(l)icq: 19056989
>>(g)aim: coldfire tt
>>
>>
>>coldie
>>
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