Ask HN: Daily updated learning portal - would this work?

Rails was my first programming endeavor. With a non-cs background, learning it was an impossibly difficult task. Every resource I found either assumed the reader had some prior programming knowledge, was incomplete, or was outdated, which led to frustration. I tried to struggle through countless tutorials, videos and ebooks, but nothing made sense and I always gave up. Railscasts were helpful for specific concepts, but not so much for general ideas and clueless newbies. After months of spinning wheels, I found a decent ebook and I realized that programming was not all that difficult as long as it was properly explained and dissected.

Since then, I've thrown around the idea of starting dedicated a blog to teaching Ruby on Rails to non-programmers. I know for a fact that there are people out there that would find this valuable - constant email inquiries enforce this. The only problem is I'm terrible at blogging since there is nobody to hold me accountable if I slack off (it happens).

Lightbulb - if I launch a platform with strong intentions to update every single day (think Woot.com for learning), I may be inclined to do just that. This would solve a number of issues:

- first post would assume absolutely no previous programming experience

- each new post would build on the last (building increasingly complex sample applications, etc)

- with daily updates, content would never become stale or dated

- would not require a huge commitment (maybe an hour a day)

- at the end of every month, the previous 30 posts could be packaged into an ebook

But why stop with Rails? The same platform could host a number of programming languages, community driven or maintained by a number of select contributers. It could be like Wikipedia + Woot + Railscasts. And it doesn't just have to be for beginner programmers. Eventually it could turn into a daily dose of programming tidbits - little tips and tricks that even experienced programmers could find useful.

So who wants to collaborate?