TurboGears class in Ann Arbor
www.compoundthinking.com/classes/
I’m still working to get the hang of this Moodle thing, but I’ve created two classes in the above site. And I’m now ready to announce that the the “Ann Arbor — in person” class is now available for online registration. Unfortunately the room we have can only fit about 20 people so I’ll have to cap the attendance there. But for the first 20 of you the registration key is: open-278
The class will be meeting 6 times, every other Saturday, from 12 pm to 2 pm, starting January 21st.
Much of the material will also be available online, and I will be announcing an online class covering similar material later this week. Both classes are free everyone willing to provide feedback, and to have that feedback incorporated in future classes, and our forthcoming book on TurboGears.
Why teaching is important
I thought it might be important to mention why, I’m doing this. You can get some good background from Kathy Sierra’s blog: “You can’t out out spend, or out teach!”
Her post is definitely worth reading, but basically she argues that one of the keys to creating passionate users for your platform is the your ability to provide learning experiences that help people feel that they can do something significant, and cool, with your platform, and have fun doing it
What I hope to contribute to the TurboGears community is to help a thousand learning experiences bloom. Lots of that happens already on planet TurboGears, and the mailing list, and at users groups, but to the extent we can make learning TurboFears fun, gratifying, and as easy as possible, the more successful the whole platform will be.
“More Teachers/fellow-learners wanted”
So, I’m very interested in partnering with anybody else who wants to create TurboGears class content — particularly if you want to teach people how to use Identity, SQL Object, MochiKit, Flash Remoting, Linux/Windows/OS X integration, or other more advanced topics!
If we can build a community of learning around TurboGears we’ll have more long-term success for the platform and a lot more cool TurboGears based success stories to point at in the future. Since different people learn in different ways at different rates with different goals in mind, the more learning experiences we can provide the better!
Unfortunately I live on the other side of the continent, so the in-person class is out for me, but I am _very_ interested in the online one! I look forward to your announcement!
Any chance that you will make the on-line class materials/lessons available for new TG-ers to peruse for their own learning?
Some of the materials will certianly be online. My goal is to have as much online material for people learning TurboGears as possible. For example, we’ll be posting chapters of the TurboGears book somewhere online.
But, the class people will have a first look. Then we’ll take some time to revise things before they go online.
And eventually, we’ll be taking down the book chapters, but by then you should be able to buy the book in complete form. And we should have a lot more material online by then too.
–Mark
Hi Mark,
In case you want to fix the time - it says from 12 am …
should be 12 pm - no?
Cheers,
Tom
Tom,
You are absolutely right. I’ve updated the main article.
–Mark
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