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| Tutoring Plan [message #26253] |
Sun, 18 April 2010 16:01  |
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koldo
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Hello all
Sometimes when I have tried to use some open source project I tried to ask questions in the Forum and I did not find enough support. Because of it I had to leave it.
To avoid that in U++ and training us looking to GSoC I wanted to propose you a "Tutoring Plan".
This plan would let a person to have assigned a Tutor during a short term of time giving them a reasonable support to let them enter in U++ world.
Proposal
- Duration: 2 weeks per person
- The plan is anonymous. If the programmer wants his/her name will not be known
- To enter it can be sent an email indicating:
-- Forum name
-- Areas where they expect to use U++
- The possible tutors would receive an email. If someone is available, the tutoring will begin
- The Tutor will give a reasonable support to tutored person, letting him/her to know different U++ resources like documentation and Forum, and answering questions
- This tutoring will be a training for Tutors focusing to GSoC
It is true that this is really done nowadays in Forum.
However it is also true that people use to be shy and do not want to ask many question showing everybody that they are newbies. If they have a way to ask many questions and receive a personal support they perhaps would enter in U++ more easily.
Best regards
Iñaki
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 Re: Tutoring Plan [message #26265 is a reply to message #26256] |
Mon, 19 April 2010 20:35  |
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Hi Koldo,
Very interesting idea. You are right that it works like this in forum now, but it would definitely lower the barrier for shy programmers.
| nlneilson wrote on Sun, 18 April 2010 22:07 |
That is a good idea but there will always be a time lag between a question and a response.
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Actually the tutor and tutored person can make an agreement and meet on irc/icq/{whatever IM system}, let's say every two days for an hour or so. That would make the cooperation much faster then through the forum or mail.
| nlneilson wrote on Sun, 18 April 2010 22:07 |
Here are a few suggestions from a newbie:
Have another menu item to the right of "Setup" called "Help".
That is what most people are used to, having "Help" under "Assist" is a bit confusing.
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Yes, this is true. Not having Help menu is like having no help at all. People are sometimes too lazy to hit F1 not even to mention to search for help in non-standard locations...
| nlneilson wrote on Sun, 18 April 2010 22:07 |
The "Manual" is good, being able to access that from "Help" and opened in a separate
window/browser even when offline. If that is a separate download the default location
could be a subdirectory under MyApps.
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You mean like having off-line html version of help? Topic++ contains the same info and you can have it in separate tab. But actually exporting html help would be really easy, basically just running uppweb with few extra lines of code to exclude forum and ads...
But back to the tutoring: I like the idea and I would probably use it myself if it existed when I started to use U++. Count on my help as far as my skills go 
Regards,
Honza
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| Re: Tutoring Plan [message #26273 is a reply to message #26272] |
Tue, 20 April 2010 08:44 |
Mindtraveller
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Registered: August 2007
Location: Russia, Moscow rgn.
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IMO we (a U++ community) should first of all prepare nice and well structured U++ "newbie" tutorial. This tutorial should be a part of TheIDE docs as well as U++ site. This tutorial should also have massive number of links from this tutorial to reference help pages.
Tutorials we have now are poorly structured and mostly isolated from help system itself.
About 1-2 years ago I started making this tutorial (currently a part of articles structure is ready) but didn't have enough time to finish it.
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| Re: Tutoring Plan. Call for tutors [message #26925 is a reply to message #26908] |
Wed, 09 June 2010 17:14 |
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Hi Koldo,
I offer my help as a tutor. I can share my limited knowledge on:- Basics of C++ (for those coming from C or other languages)
- Basic ideas behind U++
- U++ GUI basics
- U++ containers
- Debian packaging (possibly also some other Linux distributions)
- Parallelization (Thread and/or openmp)
My specialty: "Programming for non-programmers" 
Best regards,
Honza
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| Re: Tutoring Plan. Call for tutors [message #27163 is a reply to message #26908] |
Tue, 29 June 2010 09:02 |
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| koldo wrote on Tue, 08 June 2010 11:17 |
Hello all
This is a call for all that would like to join as U++ tutors.
If you think you could give support during a couple of weeks to somebody that wants to enter in U++ world you can enter as a tutor.
A tutor can reduce the fear of somebody to enter in U++ Community, inviting her/him to use the documentation and Forum properly, pushing her/him to interact with the Community and giving her/him shield in case (very rare) of any possibility of flame over her/him.
Advantages of this are to be useful and respected by the Community and to be trained to be a Mentor if next year we get into Google Summer of Code.
To join in U++ Tutoring Plan you would have to indicate:
- If your name will be published or you prefer to be anonymous (but to the tutored person )
- Level of the person to be tutored:
-- In U++
-- In C/C++
- Interests of the person to be tutored:
-- Database
-- Image
-- ...
With all the tutors we will agree details of the Tutoring Plan, we will document it in web and we will announce it in announcement forums.
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Hello Koldo,
I can support in:
- Basic C/C++
- Oracle database using from U++
- SQLITE using from U++
- Image processing in U++
- Basic Control usage (Scatter, Splitter, QTF, ...)
|Best Regards, Ion Lupascu(tojocky)
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| Re: Tutoring Plan. Call for tutors [message #27321 is a reply to message #27163] |
Mon, 12 July 2010 11:42 |
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koldo
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| tojocky wrote on Tue, 29 June 2010 09:02 |
| koldo wrote on Tue, 08 June 2010 11:17 |
Hello all
This is a call for all that would like to join as U++ tutors.
If you think you could give support during a couple of weeks to somebody that wants to enter in U++ world you can enter as a tutor.
A tutor can reduce the fear of somebody to enter in U++ Community, inviting her/him to use the documentation and Forum properly, pushing her/him to interact with the Community and giving her/him shield in case (very rare) of any possibility of flame over her/him.
Advantages of this are to be useful and respected by the Community and to be trained to be a Mentor if next year we get into Google Summer of Code.
To join in U++ Tutoring Plan you would have to indicate:
- If your name will be published or you prefer to be anonymous (but to the tutored person )
- Level of the person to be tutored:
-- In U++
-- In C/C++
- Interests of the person to be tutored:
-- Database
-- Image
-- ...
With all the tutors we will agree details of the Tutoring Plan, we will document it in web and we will announce it in announcement forums.
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Hello Koldo,
I can support in:
- Basic C/C++
- Oracle database using from U++
- SQLITE using from U++
- Image processing in U++
- Basic Control usage (Scatter, Splitter, QTF, ...)
|Best Regards, Ion Lupascu(tojocky)
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Hello Ion
Thank you very much!
I will PM you for details.
Best regards
Iñaki
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