I'd -love- to take a Python course from Zed but this site makes me uneasy about following through. Not enough information and the site simply doesn't look professional enough to be sending in payments of $200+. The 404 on the follow up course is a big red flag too.<p>-- "Find courses you're interested in from our course list. After you've selected a course, we'll send you more information about our Web-based learning system. "<p>I kinda want to know before signing up, selecting, and/or paying what your Web-based learning system is about. From what I can see on the site, there will be some directed readings, evaluated assignments, and a place to do Q&A. Those are nice benefits but I'm looking for a quality teacher to pay that premium. I'd like to know if there is audio/video lectures, what the required texts are, etc. Unfortunately there is no FAQ and the only obvious way to ask is the "Contact Us" link which takes you to a generic feedback page.
Full disclosure: I have no professional/ financial affiliation with Codelesson, though I am friends with one of its founders.<p>Posted this since I've seen so much praise for Zed's Python book here on HN.
What's up with this being an introductory course to Python? Shouldn't the experts be giving expert level instruction?<p>I understand the desire of programmers to start from ground zero, but come on. The internet is full of easy beginner tutorials. Bookstores are full of intermediate materials.<p>But there is a shortage of expert advice from experienced professionals. Let's see some of that!
That's pretty cool; and I didn't know about codelesson - if I ever had the time to put together a decent class, I'd try this out for sure.<p>Grats to Zed.
Someone knows about a similar site offering (or someone willing to offer through codelesson.com) a good software engineering course? I'll be up for that.
Little can be inferred from the link, but I am 100% sure that Zed makes an awesome teacher for anyone who's considering taking the class. Just hit him up on Twitter or e-mail, and I'm sure he'll oblige.
i'm curious as to what sort of pedagogical approach zed will be taking with this course. i know zed's personal preference is to pick up a book and just go thru all the exercises in it (e.g. mickey baker's jazz guitar).<p>will he be doing anything different from traditional student/instructor methods? curious as to what zed's personal take on this is as well.
I think there is a much better way to invest your time:<p><a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-00-introduction-to-computer-science-and-programming-fall-2008/lecture-videos/" rel="nofollow">http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...</a><p>Seem like everyone on HN is either a teacher or a prophet nowadays. ^_^
I'm really not into taking "courses" online when there's already lots of free non-interactive textual/reference/tutorial content already online, and offline in the form of books. And for a really great interactive resource, there's this thing called the Python REPL.<p>That said, I do think people should do what they love, and try to monetize the doing of what they love, so more power to him in this endeavor.