Students (and teachers) wanted

[Tacitus]

One thing that I've always wanted to do was create a community of aspiring LPC students and to give back to the LPMud community through education. IMHO, there are lot of people who can build areas in LPC but don't know how to program in LPC... I'd like to change that. That is why I'd like to offer my time to a small number of interested individuals to be their mentor as they learn (or advance their understanding of) the LPC programming language.

What exactly are you offering?

I'm offering to be mentors to keen individuals who are interested in learning how to program in LPC.

Who will be on the community council?

Unlike in previous projects that I've created where I've tried to create massively complex structure and bureaucracy, this "project" will feature no such things. There is no executive directors, community councils, or deans. Simply one guy who wants to share what he knows with others.

Who can apply?

I would recommend that you meet the following criteria to apply. I don't want to waste yours or my time.

• Able to communicate effectively via e-mail and instant messages in the English language.
• Not afraid to read a lot
• Not afraid to do work
• Regularly available and online
• Some prior experience with LPC, LPMuds, and/or programming is an asset

Individuals who show lack of interest will be dropped. I'm only interested in working with interested and dedicated individuals.

Regarding point 2 (reading a lot), I'm going to try make things as enjoyable and interactive as possible. However, there will be times were you will be required to read chunks of text.

How will you mentor us?

There won't be any fancy lesson plans, workbooks, etc. Mentorship will occur through lectures, question and answer, projects, discussion, reading, working through problems together, etc..

What happens when we're all done and I've became a uber-lpc hacker?

Thats up to you but I'd love to create a community of developes that work together on cool LPC (and non-lpc if you're so inclined) stuff. You can leave at anytime and there is no hidden obligations.

I want to help teach too!

Awesome. Send me an e-mail and I'm sure we could work together!

How do we contact you?

There are multiple ways to contact me (see forum profile). My primary e-mail is cody.somerville@gmail.com

You're a loser/This is a waste of your time/Etc.

Ok.

I thought you left the lpmud community for good?!

Meh. I've never *really* left. 

I have more questions that I feel other people would enjoy the answers to.

Feel free to post in this thread and I'll do my best to respond.

Thanks,

Cody A.W. Somerville

[amylase]

Wow, that's very nice of you tacitus to want to educate. Unfortunately I am genuinely and innately lazy and absolutely hate reading, so I've failed even before qualified as a 'student' But hey please stay around. If I see you online and have questions I'll try asking you sometime. How about putting your knowledge into some sort of online document that people can quickly refer to from time to time also? Kind of like George Reese's textbook. Anyway, happy new year!

[cratylus]

I've always been a big fan of helping folks out learning LPC,
but I could never figure out a teacher/student system that
would be useful. It seemed to me that anything a teacher
can "say" online is something just as easily (and perhaps
more conveniently) "said" through documentation...which
when you think about it, is pretty much the same: written
text on a screen.

I'm curious about how this initiative worked out. It
started January last year, and I wonder what methodology
was adopted and how it went.

-Crat

[Tacitus]

Although a period of this time I was genuinely and completely unavailable, I did have an opportunity to work with about half a dozen individuals interested in learning LPC. Although I do not feel I personally met any of my personal objectives for this initiative, it was a learning experience none the less.

As for the methodologies employed, they includes one-on-one discussion, group discussion, interactive/collaborative editing of source code, taskings (ie. students were required to demonstrate proficiency of learned topic), and assigned reading.

I do intent to follow up with this effort. I'm thinking of some sort of e-based learning system. The biggest challenge is actually getting the student to do the work they need to do to become proficient in LPC and the interactive nature of the e-based learning system might help overcome that. Waste of time? Maybe but I'd be happy if at least one person benefits from my attempts and so far I've been pretty happy