Those Who Can't Do, Teach
@pbashton (87)
South Africa
February 13, 2022 9:52am CST
I've seen a number of students complain that their lecturers and professors are very hands-off and lazy when it comes to taking a hands-on approach to properly and thoroughly teaching software development courses. Judging by how much horrendous code (particularly in Java and PHP) gets put out into the world by script-kiddy wannabes who don't know the first thing about the MySQLi* functions, PDO, nor the proper way to do graceful error-handling (including why the use of "or die()" should die), I have been considering changing my Patreon and BMC accounts to offer extensive lectures on both Computer Science (CS) and Electrical Engineering (EE), mainly to share what knowledge I already have and what I aim to teach myself.
The thing is, though, that in order to do that, I've got to be able to earn an income while I learn and teach. If I were to set up such a thing, would people be interested in the material/supporting me (at about $25 a month) for putting it out?
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@pbashton (87)
• South Africa
13 Feb 22
I suppose that much is obvious. The real question I'm asking/should have asked is, "If you're a development student (or would like to become one), would you be interested ...?"
@porwest (89044)
• United States
14 Feb 22
There is truth to both things. I mean, if you think about it, many people can teach the theory of relativity. But few people would have been able to figure it out on their own. lol
Teachers, so long as they realize, are ONLY teaching, are doing someone justice. Those who think they are experts BECAUSE they teach is a whole other ball of wax.
It's like marriage counselors, you know. Many or most of them are into their third and fourth marriages.
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@pbashton (87)
• South Africa
14 Feb 22
I think we're all here to earn, to some extent. Otherwise, we'd be posting to Facebook or Stack Exchange or some other non-paying time waster. I, however, am trying to leverage as many platforms as I can (including Pub0x and Noise). Since I have had some success with Patreon in the past, I was wondering if it would be worth my while to invest some effort and time in giving it another go with an overhaul/reboot, a change of direction/focus.
