[Courses] please reply with what kind of courses are you interested in

[Vaida Bogdan]

I keep the Perl lessons too. I'll use them as a reference when I'll
have to do some perl stuff.

On 10/11/05, Fazia Begum Rizvi <fazia at faziarizvi.net> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Dan wrote:
>
> >>> It was unfortunate that there was little response to the Perl course.
> >>> <snip>
> >>> it must have been disheartening for the tutor
> >
> > It wasn't as disheartening as you might think. There was a little
> > discussion in the beginning, so I knew people were out there.
> >
> > One other person was leading a course at the same time, and since there
> > was no discussion she asked if anyone was following it. She got over ten
> > replies. The people are there even if they're not making any noise.
> >
> >>> and less interesting for the students.
> >
> > Yes, I think it is. In particular, nobody asked the list any questions,
> > but I think everyone would have benefitted from some.
> >
> > But I know that many people follow courses passively, because that's
> > what I do! We don't always have a lot of time to invest in learning a
> > new skill, but we can still glean some knowledge by skimming it. It's
> > not necessarily a lack of discipline: it may be the best use of our
> > time.
> >
> >> people who are
> >> motivated enough to do a course on programming here have also been
> >> motivated enough to teach themselves.
> >
> > I think that's true too.
>
>
> I thought I'd mention that I was one of the students in Dan's Perl course,
> and I found it very helpful. I bacame "quiet" when life events meant that
> I wasn't able to keep up in real-time. But I still have all the emails and
> lessons from the course at the point at which I had to stop - and I intend
> to resume going through them, even though the course has long since ended.
>
> ad astra,
> Faz
>
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