[ale] [OT] Anyone up for a 90 Day Wonder Challenge?

[Jim Kinney]

All good points. I was only looking at the web site to organise weekly topics. Everyone using a common book greatly simplifies the group learning process.

Here's my thinking (I've only had half a cup of coffee so far):
1. This is Leam's idea so let's have Leam be the Project Lead on this. Book, no book, which book, times and connection method are the call of the PL.
2. We need a volunteer (or beer pliable) veteran coder(s?) to assist in leading the topics if/when the self study gets stuck. Maybe nothing more than an ALE post or maybe participate in a followup meeting to clarify an issue.
3. Let's look to start this in Jan to allow time to organize this and get past the crazy season. Also gives to get publicity to the meetup side if ALE. Most are not on the mailing list.
4. I will handle the Meetup announcements and scheduling of times and verify connection method processes. There are lot's of cross join people from Meetup and that could work well to boost ALE visibility as the central group for technology specialties.

Not to put any pressure on Leam, but this could be a "toe in the water" for a new thing for ALE. As everyone who knows me understands, I'm a huge education advocate. Doing another ALS is not an option. But coordinating and running 6-12 week special topic how to classes is very feasible. It spreads the load around, miss steps are not crises and it provides a very good service outside and within ALE. It makes us Linux people look good. I like that. :-)

Ok. Finished my coffee #1. Time to make dressing, green bean casserole and sweet potatoes.

On November 26, 2015 6:51:21 AM EST, Leam Hall <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:
>Jim,
>
>I've given this a little thought, and would like to disagree. Tell me 
>what you think of these concerns.
>
>1. Unity. Looking at the website, it seems to diverge from the book as 
>early as chapter 4.
>
>2. Multi-modal learning. The book comes with a series of videos. This 
>gives learners two different ways to ingest the material. That seems to
>
>be a solid recommendation from the education theory folks.
>
>3. Benefit Content. I've already found extra stuff in the videos that 
>goes beyond what's in the book.
>
>4. Investment. If someone buys a book it's a bit more of a commitment 
>than just saying "I'll look at a website". That, in itself, can 
>encourage deeper participation.
>
>I understand if times are tight with the holidays. If someone really 
>wants in on this but is having a difficult time swinging the cash, 
>please let me know. We can probably work something out.
>
>Leam
>
>
>On 11/25/15 12:53, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> Let's use the website as the core reference for syncing the effort.
>> Any/all books _should_ be able to
>> help teach what's needed with an occasional push/pop/poke (HA!) from
>others.
>>
>> On Wed, 2015-11-25 at 12:43 -0500, leam hall wrote:
>>> Depends on if folks want to use the same book, or one they already
>>> have. Tech books don't seem cheap.
>>>
>>> I'm using this book:
>>>
>http://www.amazon.com/Learn-Hard-Way-Practical-Computational/dp/0321884922
>
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