@Peter, congrats on that dude. You are fixing the problem at the root. I wish it were possible for you to make the course progressively difficult, and to start early, like in 2nd year. 4th years should already know enough to do their project, plus they have too much on their hands anyways. Invite me one of these days as a guest coder on CodeIgniter :-) On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Peter Muchemi <pmuchemi@gmail.com> wrote:
Having been a small time professional coder for nearly a decade, the main issue i have struggled with is getting helping hands who can deliver on time and budget and i retain a small net income (client fees - coders salary). It takes over 12 months minimum to get one on a project without fulltime hand holding.
So i decided to take the bull by the horns and become a lecturer of coders. I am taking some 4th years. when i demanded that since majority want to use php/mysql, they get into frameworks, scm(git), learn a bit of css and js(angular,jquery) 90% protested thats its too much work. they need time to pass units and interestingly the software development unit is not examinable!
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Jangita Nyagudi < jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com> wrote:
Me thinks there was a time being a programmer was cool, and there were a flood of "coders" who did it because of that reason, not because they had it in them; at that time php, mysql, java were the most popular language. So there a million people who can "do" php, joomla, mysql, wordpress - till you give them a project and ... shock! From my experience there are very few actual programmers.
On 18 February 2014 19:12, Nicholas Loki <lokimwenga@gmail.com> wrote:
Just wondering why that is, since it looks like there's a ready market for these skills?
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Jangita Nyagudi < jangita.nyagudi@gmail.com> wrote:
Really good stuff. Python programmers (especially with Django) are few and far between!
On 18 February 2014 15:45, Adam Nelson <adam@varud.com> wrote:
There is also a Python meetup some time next week at iHub (Tuesday or Thursday probably) - I'll be announcing it shortly once I find a speaker (anybody want to present?).
We ask who's hiring and who's looking at the beginning of the meetup, although last time, only one person was looking for a position.
http://www.meetup.com/Python-Nairobi
I find that presenting at Python meetups is the best way to attract talent.
-Adam
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On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 1:52 PM, Steve Obbayi <steve@sobbayi.com>wrote:
Maybe you should join us on the Google Group "Nairobi Python Users Group" and post there again. You will get what you are looking for
Steve
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good luck!
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