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Title: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on July 18, 2013, 09:48:55 PM

After some recent discussion around the site, I though it would be good idea to get a thread up where people could say whether there are any courses they might be interested/willing/blackmailed into running for/taking at the Academy.

So, things to discuss/state on this thread:
 - What subjects do you know about that might lend itself to being taught in the Academy?
 - Would you like to run a course on it? [OF COURSE YOU WOULD!]
 - How much time do you think you might have for putting into this course? And when might this be?
 - Which of the courses suggested would you be interested in taking?
 - Which of the courses not yet suggested would you be interested in taking? :D

Also, if you know someone else on this site is good at something but they might not think of it, do suggest too.. Either here, or possibly to them separately so they don't feel pressured to volunteer.

[Of course, Jubal has already made a thread like this, but since I'm practically stealing his job by writing this, who cares! Write on this thread, write on the other.. doesn't matter all the much to me :)]

I shall make a list!

Course	Offered by	Interested
Cloak making/other assorted sewing	Scarlet	Mother of Dragons Pentagathus comrade_general
Some maths and stuff	Scarlet, just finished first year Natural Sciences maths	Rob Pentagathus comrade_general Othko97
Some first year geology	Scarlet	Jubal Pentagathus comrade_general joek Othko97
Ceilidh dancing/calling	Scarlet	Jubal Pentagathus comrade_general joek Mother of Dragons
Statistics	Othko97	Pentagathus comrade_general
World Building (Reboot)	Jubal	Son of the King The Khan comrade_general Othko97
C++ (in September)	Son of the King	Rob Jubal Scarlet(?) comrade_general joek Othko97
Baking	Mother of Dragons	Jubal Scarlet comrade_general joek
Cosplay	Mother of Dragons	comrade_general
Etiquette	Scarlet & joek	Mother of Dragons comrade_general
Intro to Latin	joek	Scarlet Jubal Othko97
Drawing	SilverWolf, The Khan?	Scarlet The Khan

Anyone interested? :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Othko97 on July 18, 2013, 09:50:01 PM

I would like to run a course, but I have no ideas :/ But I would happily enrol in almost any course possible

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on July 18, 2013, 09:54:23 PM

For example:

I could conceivably do courses on:
 - Cloak making/other assorted sewing
 - Some maths and stuff (just finished first year Natural Sciences maths)
 - Some first year geology
 - Ceilidh dancing/calling

I would be willing to do this.

I can put in a fair amount of time over the summer, less time when I'm at university but can probably still manage (Procrastination!).

I would be interested in taking some of the courses both suggested and not suggested :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on July 18, 2013, 10:27:59 PM

I think the trick generally will be to produce plenty of information and ensure that you'll be able to give people feedback in a fairly succinct and not that time consumptive way.  :) I do think that feedback and teaching is quite necessary though, that's the main thing that makes this more than "a bunch of crap someone wrote on the internet."

I'll probably focus on World Building for the reboot; it was more popular and less time consuming and more fun.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on July 18, 2013, 11:49:08 PM

I'll use my 2000th post to say that I'll be willing to run a course on programming in C++, in around about September, with details to be finalised later :) .

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on July 18, 2013, 11:51:01 PM

I was thinking of running like baking? Or Cosplay? :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on July 18, 2013, 11:51:38 PM

Adding you in.. :)

Maybe you should post about that in a special place so you can get some triumph points for it :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on July 18, 2013, 11:53:48 PM

I was doing that as you posted :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: comrade_general on July 18, 2013, 11:54:54 PM

Cosplay has my vote. ;D

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on July 18, 2013, 11:56:00 PM

My name be not comrade_general!

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on July 19, 2013, 12:09:24 AM

I know :D Why would you think it was? 0:)

(I'm sorry, I'm tired? :/)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Clockwork on July 19, 2013, 02:17:38 AM

Interested in C++ and maths and stuff courses.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on July 24, 2013, 11:52:15 AM

I would be interested in the World Building reboot :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on July 24, 2013, 11:59:12 AM

Ceilidhing, baking, C++, and geology would all be of interest to me.

And so would all the rest tbh.  :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on July 24, 2013, 12:11:29 PM

Sewing would really interest me... because... (secret o'clock)

I love the Disney movie 'Tangled' and I want to try making a replica of Rapunzel's dress (maybe) :P

*hides away from the guilty pleasure of Disney movies*

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Pentagathus on July 24, 2013, 12:39:09 PM

Its really not that bad as far as guilty pleasures go. Enjoying the taste of roast babies, thats what I'd call a guilty pleasure.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: comrade_general on July 24, 2013, 12:43:53 PM

I concur. :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on July 24, 2013, 12:53:51 PM

CG - You concur it's not a guilty pleasure or that you want to make a Rapunzel dress?

MoD - Do it! I made an elf dress when I was 15.  I must still have the pattern somewhere.. Combining that with the gypsy costume pattern I have might well work. Though I altered that one, I should be able to reconstruct it. All of the fun!

Also, interested in baking definitely and C++ possibly (depending on how basic it is - I know nothing, despite my lack of barcelonian heritage). To be honest, all the stuff you can throw at me. I shall learn it all! Maybe..

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on July 24, 2013, 01:03:15 PM

I am very tempted to... I looked online for ideas, and one had a lot of elaborate embroidery... it was the most accurate, but as i'm not as good as I wish I was, it wouldn't matter to me if that wasn't there/as elaborate. I already bought a long blonde wig to be Daenerys last halloween, (even if it is a bit too light) but that wouldn't matter too much either, because i'd plait it and decorate it with flowers if i was turning in into a cosplay :')

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on July 24, 2013, 01:18:41 PM

The two patterns are Simplicity 0501

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://img1.etsystatic.com/000/0/6263212/il_570xN.232347183.jpg)

and McCall's M5497

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(http://img0.etsystatic.com/000/0/5146233/il_570xN.269793170.jpg)

Though I, to some extent, ended up ignoring the patterns..

Good..? (I'll try to help with or without an academy course if you want/ I can)

(I apologise to the rest of the thread for hijacking it for my own sewing geek-out purposes)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: comrade_general on July 24, 2013, 01:42:32 PM

Quote from: Scarlet on July 24, 2013, 12:53:51 PM

CG - You concur it's not a guilty pleasure or that you want to make a Rapunzel dress?

Yes. ;D

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on July 24, 2013, 03:12:48 PM

Those are lovely, thank you :)

I think i'd try and base it on first dress, (the skirt and top part, but make shorter/more fitted sleeves) and add the corset/bodice part of the second one? Maybe?

Also, I wish i'd have been capable of making an elf dress aged 15 :O that's amazing :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on July 24, 2013, 06:06:25 PM

That, CG, is infuriatingly noncommittal :P

Yeah, well the bodice is in fact a separate piece in the second pattern (like a waistcoat) but I'm pretty sure you could just make the from part of it and sew it into the seams of the first dress when you sew it up to incorporate it. I shall try to find my information on making puff sleeves.. I'm fairly sure it's quite straightforward.

It's really not that great, no overlocker :/ (Still no overlocker in fact) Also, the neckline is slightly too wide. I'm not doing a very good job of convincing me you want to learn from me, am I? :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on July 24, 2013, 08:55:25 PM

It'll still be far better than I can do i'm sure :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on July 27, 2013, 08:43:54 AM

Don't be so sure :P

CG reminded me of something else I know an embarrassing amount about. I can teach people about etiquette.

I'm giving off a really weird impression here..

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on July 27, 2013, 10:41:16 AM

:O really? Because I've been looking for a good book on etiquette for ages and not found one... :D

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on July 27, 2013, 11:16:34 AM

I'll take that as interest? :P

These are the people you want to go to.

http://www.debretts.com/

They do books. Also the National Trust does a good series that I am slowly collecting all of :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on July 28, 2013, 02:22:04 PM

Ooh, I might invest in some of those books :P
and yep, interest :D

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on July 29, 2013, 07:52:08 PM

Etiquette would be a good one to do. Possibly have something about the history/development of such as a feature of it to explain why all the amusing rules?  :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on July 29, 2013, 11:58:20 PM

Amusing?! AMUSING?! How dare you :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on July 30, 2013, 10:19:04 AM

There are reasons I don't self-identify as Lawful in the D&D alignment system.  :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Pentagathus on July 30, 2013, 10:42:39 AM

Yeah fudge the system! Anarchy in the Exilian!

Oh and I think that Captain Carthage should do a course on courting.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Cuddly Khan on August 03, 2013, 10:59:22 AM

I'd be interested in World Building! :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on August 03, 2013, 11:17:41 AM

Noted :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Cuddly Khan on August 04, 2013, 09:01:44 AM

Do you think you can add some explanations for the courses?

EDIT: Please? ;D

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Pentagathus on August 04, 2013, 09:58:53 AM

No.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Cuddly Khan on August 04, 2013, 12:07:57 PM

Huh? Why not?

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Pentagathus on August 04, 2013, 01:00:29 PM

There is no why, there just is.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on August 04, 2013, 01:30:41 PM

There is now a details section of the table, if you want to give descriptions then please write them :)
If you want to get a description of a course then poke the person to write one :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on August 18, 2013, 03:44:02 PM

Etiquette's on the table ^_^ how I missed that being added I don't know... xD

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Pentagathus on August 18, 2013, 04:50:22 PM

I would like to announce interest in the first half of the table.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on August 19, 2013, 09:48:16 AM

Excellente :) Updated.

We should start thinking about running these..

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on August 19, 2013, 12:04:01 PM

Arghyespanicthat'sprobablymyjobisn'tit

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: comrade_general on August 19, 2013, 12:18:46 PM

Put me down for everything. :)

I forgot Saw is doing C++. I actually studied C# in college, not like I remember any of it thought. :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on August 20, 2013, 11:39:56 AM

Possibly, but you can delegate surely. Don't panic :)

Putting..

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: joek on September 04, 2013, 11:33:13 AM

Quote from: Jubal on July 24, 2013, 11:59:12 AM

Ceilidhing, baking, C++, and geology would all be of interest to me.

This, basically.

If there were interest (and I can remember my A-level latin) I could do an intro to Latin...

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on September 04, 2013, 12:17:17 PM

I would be interested in a Latin introduction certainly.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Death Nade on September 10, 2013, 01:30:19 PM

I think a few tutorials on drawing would be good to arrange, i suggest someone like SilverWolf, The Khan or *cough* myself to run these. I don't think id be very suited to a teaching role though and we'd most likely need to have a few requests on specific things which a certain  person/peoples would like to learn how to draw. Of course there'd also probably be an introductory thing explaining how to properly shade and get simple objects like vase' or something to look good. I'm also imagining that there are a lot of different levels which people are drawing at so yeah i don't know.
I'm just throwing this out there, although of course i don't know if i, personally , would have the time and discipline to do this. Just a thought :) .

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on September 10, 2013, 03:21:50 PM

Okay friends, we now have a list of many potential courses. We should be more proactive about this.

People running courses

Here is information on creating and running a course:
http://www.exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2092.0

Here is an FAQ thingy:
http://www.exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=2090.0

I started sort of vaguely planning a geology course today. I know joek found some stuff which means he can run the Latin course.

People not running courses

Is there a particular course you'd like to see get off the ground? Why don't you encourage/ offer to help the person offering to run that course? Alternatively, make lots of noise about how awesome that course (and others) would be.


Do things! Be productive! Please..? I'll give you triumph points? :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on September 10, 2013, 04:35:12 PM

Do PM me for advice on designing your course or how many credits it should offer, etc.  :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on September 10, 2013, 04:39:18 PM

When I've finished writing up my project, C++ will become a reality :) .

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on September 10, 2013, 04:43:18 PM

You mean that C++ is currently a lie? :O

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on September 10, 2013, 05:34:02 PM

No, just that I haven't started planning it yet :P .

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Cuddly Khan on September 10, 2013, 09:16:10 PM

Hmm, sign me up for the "Interested" row for drawing as well pease. ;D

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on September 10, 2013, 09:28:02 PM

Signed :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Death Nade on September 11, 2013, 08:12:22 AM

I don't think i'd have any time to run those drawing tutorials by the way, perhaps someone else could do it?

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on September 12, 2013, 06:00:37 PM

I'm also interested in the Ceilidh dancing/calling :D

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Othko97 on September 25, 2013, 09:18:41 PM

Sign me up for Geology, the "Maths and Stuff", Latin, World Building and C++.

Also I finally have an idea! I can do Statistics!

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on September 25, 2013, 10:00:35 PM

Can someone else modify that in? It won't work properly on my phone.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Othko97 on October 08, 2013, 08:25:01 PM

Updated my course, but forgot to put me in the interested bit for others :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on October 09, 2013, 05:28:00 PM

Don't know who that was, but I have now updated it.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: comrade_general on October 09, 2013, 05:31:05 PM

Any time something new is added I am automatically interested in it. ;)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on October 10, 2013, 08:51:33 AM

Quick! Someone offer to do a really embarrassing course :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on October 18, 2013, 11:17:00 AM

So, when do people feel it would be a good idea for our grand reopening? :D

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Scarlet on October 18, 2013, 07:33:50 PM

I'm not sure. I think we need to get a series of people to write some courses and get Jubal (or someone he delegates to) to look through and once we have two or three to run we can re open? What do others think?

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on October 18, 2013, 10:11:17 PM

Sounds good to me :) .

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on October 19, 2013, 01:41:02 PM

How close are you to being able to run C++, SOTK? Ditto Scarlet with whichever of yours would be easiest to do.

I can get World Building going without too much more work I think maybe. :s

If we can get MoD back and she could run cosplay or something then we'd have a fairly rounded starting portfolio.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Othko97 on October 19, 2013, 01:57:45 PM

I'll have to start writing then it seems :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on October 19, 2013, 02:01:27 PM

Go go go!  :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on October 20, 2013, 12:49:21 AM

I will be able to run it soon, my project is out of the way now. MoD is very busy with work but it finishes for half term soon and then she will be less run down.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on October 23, 2013, 02:26:10 PM

Out of interest/to help me decide how in-depth to go, what is the extent of existing programming knowledge amongst the people interested in c++?

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: comrade_general on October 23, 2013, 02:36:43 PM

I had a few courses in C# about 5 years ago. :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on October 23, 2013, 06:43:16 PM

I used to be pretty good at JavaScript and I can do basic python-y stuff.  :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Othko97 on October 24, 2013, 10:04:51 PM

Pretty good with python and also proficient VB6

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on November 04, 2013, 02:57:14 PM

Hello  :)

I'm really sorry to change this... is it possible that my baking course could become a sort or baking/home economics/craft course? I'd love to do some cosplay eventually, but as it's quite time consuming (less so than baking and crafts etc.) :/ Scarlet's sewing course is sort of similar though, and i'm certain she's far more adept than me at this kind of thing anyway :P

I'd like to be able to do things for my course using the Youtube channel, if that's possible also, like tutorials? :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on November 04, 2013, 03:22:09 PM

Sure; right now I don't care a great deal what sort of courses we offer, I'd just like to get some running!  :P

And yes, of course. We could even set up an extra channel for the academy?

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on November 04, 2013, 03:24:42 PM

I think an extra channel would be a good idea :) Especially if there are a few courses running from it :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on November 05, 2013, 12:12:49 AM

I sent a course outline thingy to you Jubal, awaiting your approval before I start off on it :D .

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Othko97 on November 05, 2013, 10:00:25 PM

I am currently creating a similar outline :P.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on November 23, 2013, 12:07:07 PM

How many other people are ready to start their course then? I feel like a few starting at once would be better as a relaunch type event rather than me starting alone.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on November 23, 2013, 01:11:46 PM

I think Othko's not far off?

I can start world-building again, I've still got to produce a lot more material though.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: TTG4 on December 06, 2013, 01:01:06 AM

I'd love to do something plant based (or just general biology -  though I know less about that) but 3rd year is devouring my time so I don't think I can run a full course. Perhaps we could have something similar to this where there's a Q&A style format? That I could potentially do

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on December 08, 2013, 12:06:09 PM

Yeah, a sort of "ask an expert" section? That could work.  :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: TTG4 on December 17, 2013, 07:10:35 PM

Quote from: Jubal on December 08, 2013, 12:06:09 PM

Yeah, a sort of "ask an expert" section? That could work.  :)

Yeah, though I'd hesitate about taking the title of expert!

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on May 15, 2014, 08:35:39 PM

People interested in my C++ course, take a look here! (http://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=166.0)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Phoenixguard09 on May 27, 2014, 06:16:21 PM

I'd be most interested in the World-Building reboot. ;)

I'd also consider co-running it if Jub needed a hand. Or, perhaps guest-speaker or some armadillo. I don't know, I'd like to try and run something but I don't know how to do anything very well. :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: lordryan756 on June 29, 2014, 12:24:55 AM

...Not sure if this is late or not (Assuming not by the previous post(s)), but If this is still going on I think I'd like the following: Maths, Geology, Stats, World Building, C++, Etiquette, Latin, and Drawing. Not sure if they all fit, but I figure if I'm going to learn, I will learn ALL the things! Going for "Renaissance Man" status, heh.
...On a related note, I could toss out some Java-related courses if anyone is interested. If not, I have a random smattering of videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/ImperatorRyan (Shameless self-plug, heh). Anyways, hope this continues. Certainly seems worth a shot. Again, I still have no idea if it's been dropped, due to my not being around in the past year or so.

-Enjoy,
Ryan

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Cuddly Khan on June 29, 2014, 04:42:08 AM

The Exilian Academy was sort of a failed experiment really. It never really lived all that much. It had a short life.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lady Grey on June 29, 2014, 06:36:12 PM

:( it might not be gone yet! :P  My 'course' is now going to be just baking tutorials though .

Shame, because I've always wanted etiquette lessons :/

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on June 29, 2014, 09:24:07 PM

I'm committed to rebooting this at some point, but it probably means someone who isn't me would need to take charge and organise the whole thing.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Phoenixguard09 on July 03, 2014, 02:51:22 AM

Hmm, I'd consider doing that, but I don't have a good track record in terms of staying at tasks. :(

Let me get a job first. If I still feel I can do this once I have that sorted, I'll be happy to organise it. I probably won't run any courses though. I know nothing well enough to teach it.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Othko97 on July 03, 2014, 09:08:07 PM

The Stats Course I'm running has got a few lessons done, I just seem to be incessantly busy at the moment.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Tom on July 03, 2014, 09:18:39 PM

AS stats?

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Othko97 on July 03, 2014, 09:28:15 PM

Yeah, but it might extend to A2 and possibly S3, as it seems to help me in revision a little :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Tom on July 04, 2014, 12:04:48 AM

I'm not taking further so S2 is as far as I'm going to go unless I self teach myself some stuff. I think your tutorials might be good for that :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Othko97 on July 04, 2014, 06:53:53 AM

I'm intending on self-teaching S3, M3 and FP3, possibly more if I can find the time :P

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Tom on July 04, 2014, 08:36:22 AM

Yeah, one of my mates is too. What degree do you want to do? Physics?

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Othko97 on July 04, 2014, 07:35:49 PM

Maths! This sadly means that my next year will be a hell of preparing for STEP papers, and the following three (or four) more intense still.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Tom on July 04, 2014, 08:21:17 PM

Yeah, that will be interesting :/ thank god for biological natural sciences :)

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Othko97 on July 04, 2014, 09:13:15 PM

Agreed.

In other news, I have 3 lessons of my course fully typed up, although I would prefer to do more before I actually start it :P I believe SotK has got a lot of his C++ one done.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on November 26, 2014, 10:05:33 PM

OK, I know Othko is around and probably has time (maybe?), but does anyone else who was interested in my C++ course? If so, when would people want me to start (after the last time I tried and only Othko from the interested folk list showed up :P )?

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: comrade_general on December 22, 2014, 04:40:29 PM

Who would be interested in a painting course? The first course would be a simple landscape but would require the students to have a few supplies.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Flamekebab on December 25, 2014, 04:38:19 PM

I think I'd be interested in some sort of basic Python course focusing on how to build graphical applications. That is to say I'm relatively familiar with how to think about procedural flow of a program (although not in Python) but I've no idea where to start when it comes to doing anything outside of the command line. I'd like to be able to put something together that would have a clickable UI, essentially.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on December 25, 2014, 06:51:02 PM

SOTK can do more advanced stuff than me there, but I'd be happy to run a mini course on using tkinter which is the most basic of the python UI packages.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on December 25, 2014, 07:19:11 PM

I'm happy to do a small course for Pygame if that will be useful, but it somewhat depends on what your use-case is as to which of that or tkinter would be more useful.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Flamekebab on December 29, 2014, 10:03:35 PM

I was thinking of attempting to build a date converter for the Warhammer 40,000 Imperial Dating System in Python. I'm not sure how to provide an input form. That is to say how to think about menus.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on December 29, 2014, 11:32:10 PM

That sounds like Tkinter would be more useful. I could learn PyQt, but I would rather just do a simple tutorial or two for that rather than a whole Academy course.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Flamekebab on December 30, 2014, 12:33:32 AM

With any luck that'd help a great deal  :D

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lizard on January 04, 2015, 06:39:08 PM

ANYONE INTERESTED IN RUNNING A COURSE SHOULD MESSAGE ME ASAP OKAY THANKS AWESOME.

*cough*

Apologies for the caps, but it's super important!

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: TTG4 on February 08, 2015, 01:00:32 AM

So I've had an idea. Would there be interest in a sort of 'journal club' like set up? Say if a piece of research hits the news, or someone stumbles across a paper and they're not sure what to make of it, or want to discuss the ideas it brings up, then they could bring it there for community discussion?

The only issue I can see is the problem of pay walls to access some journals. But there are quite a few that are open access, or that I'm sure at least of few of us here will have access to in order to comment on it.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Jubal on February 08, 2015, 01:02:38 AM

I'd be interested in this, absolutely :) Though of course we'll have something of a gap in skillsets given our very broad range of disciplines.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lizard on February 09, 2015, 12:30:48 PM

I've messaged you about the journal club.

I'd definitely be interested, always looking to expand my academic horizons! And I guess you could stipulate that free versions of the paper must be available... Though Google Scholar has never failed me on that front.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Son of the King on February 13, 2015, 02:44:57 PM

As Lizard has expressed interest in running a C++ course, and I've not actually done much with it in over a year, would anyone be interested if I ran a Python course instead?

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lizard on February 13, 2015, 03:22:45 PM

Whoops, didn't mean to step on any toes! Just didn't seem like you were doing much with it, so... :P

But yes, Python. Do it. Doooo iiiiit.

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: BrokenIronSights on February 13, 2015, 04:09:09 PM

If Lizard is willing to take up the C++ front, then by all means, a Python course would be much appreciated, Sir King. :) I don't think it matters who does it, as much as it gets done, giving the community the resources to learn and grow.

Just my two humble cents,
Jeff  :orc:

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Flamekebab on February 13, 2015, 04:11:01 PM

I'm trying to take CS50 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CS50) through edX at the moment and they seem keen on C. If I survive I'm thinking that Python will be a friendly face compared to C!

Title: Re: What sorts of courses would you be most interested in? (II)
Post by: Lizard on February 27, 2015, 05:54:24 PM

So we want a C or C++ course, yes?