Request HN: A programming mentor (Rails & Node.js)
Been coding since 13 (sold my first piece of software at 14), but still not very good
Currently attending Stanford University (CS Major)
Interested in building things to spread information that betters people's lives (with a focus on doing things in a way that makes sense given our knowledge of psychology)
Been using rails for a while, and node.js&javascript recently. I built a new site last week in rails (email for link) :)
Have many personal projects on the go (i'll tell you all about all of them :) )
Mentoring a complete beginner in rails, and saw how much faster they were able to learn - so I'd love the same thing!
I could really use someone who I can email/chat with a few times a week to ask small questions (e.g. right now trying to create a site with DocPad/node, and I have a few questions, these things always come up and I solve them eventually - but it takes far far longer).
I have been mentoring someone who is a complete beginner at rails, and what I said to them is that the blocks I experienced when learning rails would generally involve me posting on stackoverflow, waiting a day or 2, and then getting an answer and being able to continue - something which hugely slowed down my rate of learning progress.
I'm still pretty much a beginner - and when I do ask these questions to someone knowledgable they are generally solved in less than 2 minutes - but really slow me down otherwise :) And I only have a few questions like that a week!
Feel free to ask me any more questions about my full story via email :)
Please send me an email or reply here with any questions!
hn@withoutfriction.com