lanecwagner

I wrote this one: https://app.qvault.io/course/6321ddbf-49eb-4748-9737-6bc12e8...

it's a crypto course where you write the solutions in Go. you might enjoy it :)

I agree there are so many issues with coding education, (full disclosure, that's why I'm building Qvault.io) but I don't think the big problems are the ones presented here.

I see the following as the biggest unsolved problems:

1. Online learning rarely teaches you what you should be learning. Resources are useless if you don't know which subject matter is right for you yet. 2. Platforms don't give you a feel for "completion", e g. when and how should I start job searching. 3. You don't get personal mentorship or cohort support like you would at school 4. Too many videos, not enough code. Almost all learning when it comes to coding should include writing code. 5. Healthy mix of guided and unguided learning. Courses are great for abstract concepts, projects need to follow so that you can apply what you learn on your own

College simply isn't the most effective way to be learning these days. Especially for undergraduate degrees, places like Kahn Academy, Qvault.io (mine) and FreeCodeCamp are working really well

Minecraft lifted it too

It says a lot that most of this is counter inspired by Ruby

I've been working an an alternative to codeacademy, particularly one focused on closing skills gaps before job placement, and on building a tighter knit community. from a business perspective, this is great news for me I think xD

Bitcoin has only been around for 12 years, and went from 0 to 69k dollars. How has it been in a recession for the last 12 years?

I built a little golang playground using web workers and WASM. It's nice to not hang the UI thread. https://app.qvault.io/playground/go

not a great metaphor imo. gives the impression masks and distance do nothing, and we know they do

I write a Go package because I have similar feelings. https://GitHub.com/wagslane/go-password-validator

Don't use em.

This is exactly why I started building https://qvault.io over a year ago. Boot camps are full of shit, they aren't teaching all they need to. We need an alternative to college that isn't expensive and based on exaggerations and lies.

I've been talking about this for a minute. Boot camps are pushing the "you can make tons of money in just 4 weeks" narrative. CS skills are ironically becoming a huge differentiator. that's why I've been indiehacking on https://qvault.io

They do an okay job for video courses, but videos are just so dull for coding. That's why I built https://qvault.io maybe someday ill have time to make it an interactive course marketplace

For anyone that needs an intro to ECC in general: https://qvault.io/cryptography/elliptic-curve-cryptography/

awesome! I made one just like it about a year ago: https://app.qvault.io/playground/go

it actually powers some of the courses in go that I've written as well

maybe not anymore, now that we all use and love highlighting. but maybe back then?

religious I get, but medical? medical? what?

Hmm... very similar to what I'm building at https://qvault.io - inspires me to improve my UI though

OSSU does a great job. I recently started building a CS curriculum with a focus on giving students a single interactive place to get all the material. You can check it out here if interested: https://GitHub.com/Qvault/curriculum

I recently wrote an eerily similar piece. My focus is more on unit test but the idea is the same: https://qvault.io/clean-code/writing-good-unit-tests-dont-mo...

Welp, it seems like this was a good year to create a CS education platform. I've always been disatisfied with boot camps, I feel that for most people online learning is a better route. You can see what I'm building on https://qvault.io

Any non sub links?

Take a course or two in cryptography if you haven't already. Once you understand the basics, move on to the application level and learn about best practices. Afaik the best way is via courses, a lot of online reading, and even better, on the job training if you can get a security-related job

Oh dang, I might need to rename the course I published a few months ago... https://qvault.io/practical-cryptography-course/

At first glance, looks like a solid book. I'll be going through it in more detail later.

and the echo chambers isolate further...

None taken - but it really is. You could argue that my "direct" competitors are the people making courses on those platforms, but decisions coursera makes affects their courses directly.

This clip from cobra kai really made me rethink censorship for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8VGzyy5FTY

"read this book". nah, was expecting a tl;dr

I wonder if this is good or bad for my competitor site...