First, there are lots of places that are willing to teach you in exchange for a fee. These are schools.<div><br></div><div>Second, there are a plethora of free high quality learning resources out there. MIT and Stanford both have initiatives for putting courses online. The awesome Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is available online for free. I hear that the Khan Academy has some great learning resources available.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Third, there are many programming language/methodology user groups that would be a better place to get this type of help or at least find resources.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally in response to to Ed, getting mad because a programmer/software engineer doesn't step up to teach you in exchange for beer money is childish. Would you ask a lawyer, mason, teacher, or other professional to volunteer to teach you and get mad if they didn't jump at the chance?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Just my 2 cents.</div><div><br></div><div>-jacob</div><div><div><br></div><div>BTW - language is not as important as understanding what is being communicated in a language. Although some languages don't lend themselves to describing certain problems.</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:30 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lsawyer@scsdenver.com" target="_blank">lsawyer@scsdenver.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana"><div>I Agree with Ed, I'd pay a fee for an instructor. However, the $2,500 for 5 day IT courses is too steep for me.</div><div><br></div><div>Larry</div>
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From: edv <<a href="mailto:ezedtheamerican@gmail.com" target="_blank">ezedtheamerican@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Tue, May 08, 2012 2:20 pm<br>
To: <a href="mailto:clue@cluedenver.org" target="_blank">clue@cluedenver.org</a><br>
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heck, I am trying to learn hAxe...<br>
it is object oriented programing.<br>
basically a person writes in hAxe and gets c++ javascript php source<br>
code and from what I understand java and c# are soon to come as targets<br>
for the haXe compilier.<br>
I bought the intro to haXe book but I am not getting the understanding I<br>
need because I don't understand the fundamentals of types, dynamic<br>
types, and classes....<br>
so if this thread is about learning programming I am in.<br>
I can do some things in bash where I feel most comfortable but that<br>
really IMO isn't a programming language.. ( I could be wrong... )<br>
I am able to write in javascript but not without that online manual on<br>
<a href="http://www.3schools.com" target="_blank">www.3schools.com</a> <br>
If there is anybody out there willing to help a person out learning what<br>
the hype is about object oriented programming I am all for going<br>
attending and paying for instruction.<br>
I don't know the going rate for a guru but I am sure that if a seminar<br>
was given on this subject I would at least make an effort to help a dude<br>
out.<br>
ed.<br>
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