Rails Bootcamp was --> Re: Local classes [Was: Re: O'reilly's learninglab worthwhile?]

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Tue Jan 31 18:42:21 MST 2006


On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 14:25 -0700, Derek Neighbors wrote:
> Mark Jarvis wrote:
> >
> > Most of the community colleges offer an advanced *nix class, but it's 
> > hard to get enrollees, so they're often offered only once a year. 
> > (PVCC offers one spring semester only.)
> >
> > Computer class enrollment all over the district has been dropping the 
> > last few semesters. This semester at PVCC, both basic Linux classes 
> > (CIS126DL) and the advanced Linux class (CIS238) were dropped due to 
> > too few students signing up for them.
> Our company is looking to sponsor an East Valley Rails/Ruby group in 
> conjunction with the current North Scottsdale Ruby Users Group.  I have 
> seen a few rails posts to this list and threads like this on how to 
> "learn" stuff.  If we put on a Rails Bootcamp is there anyone here that 
> would be interested?  Are people willing to pay for instruction on this 
> kind of thing?  Maybe it makes sense to add some "tracks" to our 
> Installfests?
> 
> Interested in feedback.
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time / place /cost are all considerations but yes, I am interested.

Craig



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