# Ruby / Rails Training

**URL:** https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-rails-training/59845
**Category:** ruby-talk
**Created:** [31 August 2010 21:07 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-rails-training/59845 "2010-08-31T21:07:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author: ![Ironmanusa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3bc359/32.png) [@Ironmanusa](https://rubytalk.org/u/Ironmanusa)
#### Post date: [31 August 2010 21:07 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-rails-training/59845/1 "2010-08-31T21:07:53Z")

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First off I haven't seen the syllabus but I am guessing you have  
the content I would be looking for. I am also happy to pay for  
access to the content and support tutoring. I am mailing back  
publicly in the hope others maybe as well and it would be worth  
your while financially to put something together.

Ideal scenario for me would look something like this:

- Lay out 6 month schedule with fixed learnings and exercises  
(personally I need to start at very basics but am committed and  
have track record so not the lazy UW student)  
- An hour every other week check-in using Skype (although I am in  
Seattle so Zoka or something might make more sense) to review  
exercises and go over things having challenges with  
- Some sort of full day training in batches say 2 x 2 days at the  
end of each 3 month period

Like I said I am more than happy to pay for good tuition and good  
support.

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> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:00:24 -0700 Ryan Davis \<ryand- ruby@zenspider.com\> wrote:
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> > On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:58 , ironmanusa@hushmail.com wrote:
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> > > The University of Washington was running a course but looks like
> > 
> > > its stopped this year in favor of Objective-C.
> > 
> > we were... it didn't stop in favor of objc, it stopped because we  
> > were putting way too much time into the course for what we were  
> > getting paid. UW really was expecting us to do 4-6 hours a week  
> > grading when in reality it was more like 20. I think that made it  
> > a better class, but with many of the students having similar  
> > expectations as UW (meaning, they were poor students and expecting  
> > to be able to get away with shoddy work), the burnout level was  
> > quite high on the instructor side.
> > 
> > I still have all the materials and would be happy to share them in  
> > some way... but I'm not willing to put 20 hours a week into  
> > grading. (esp for free 🙂

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### Author: ![Ryan\_Davis1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/rubytalk.org/ryan_davis1/32/1848_2.png) [@Ryan\_Davis1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Ryan_Davis1)
#### Post date: [1 September 2010 05:00 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ruby-rails-training/59845/2 "2010-09-01T05:00:50Z")

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you DO know that we meet every week at vivace on capitol hill... right?

you can just show up and learn by osmosis (technically diffusion).

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> On Aug 31, 2010, at 14:07 , ironmanusa@hushmail.com wrote:
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> > - An hour every other week check-in using Skype (although I am in  
> > Seattle so Zoka or something might make more sense) to review  
> > exercises and go over things having challenges with
