r/carlhprogramming

Hi

Reading the most recent posts I can see there is a lot of concern for my welfare, so I thought I would write a quick message to let everyone know that I am ok. I simply haven't had time for Reddit in quite a while. Very busy work and personal life at the moment, but all is well.

I don't make it a point to submit posts here to this subreddit very often because I don't want to clog up everyone's homepage. Nonetheless, be assured that I am fine and I will resume lessons when my life calms down.

Hello Everyone,

While it is still very much in the construction phase, the website: http://www.highercomputingforeveryone.com is now online, and functional. The course content has not yet been published, but will be soon.

My goal is going to be to operate this without fees, ads or obstructions, and to rely on donations as so many of you have requested. I will be putting the existing course material from this site onto the new website over the next several days (schedule permitting), and following that, I will be expanding on the course.

Thank you everyone for all of your support, encouraging comments, and overall contribution to this project.

First, thank you to everyone who donated. I never started these lessons with the intention to profit, and I only asked for donations to help with the cost of starting/maintaining the website.

The monthly overhead for the higher computing website is quite small. Small enough I can pay for it without needing donations. I want this to simply be a free resource intended to help people learn, without any other motives implied or otherwise. So long as my expenses can be met with my own resources, that will remain the case.

I have therefore removed the ability to donate from the website. All content will remain free.

Life has been incredibly hectic, and I apologize for not posting sooner. As much as I would love to spend a lot more time writing these lessons (no sarcasm, I really enjoy it!), I have had to focus on my career, my family, and a number of private but time consuming issues.

I will be continuing this course at some point, it remains an open-ended project. I have written over 130 lessons, and between this subreddit and the "higher computing for everyone" website (which I pay for out of my pocket each month, and continue to provide for free), thousands of people have been able to gain an enjoyment from and perhaps even a love of programming and higher computing. That far surpasses any goals

Why so long without an update? Simply put, real-world work comes before online programming classes, as much as I enjoy doing the classes. Things have calmed down enough that I am able to resume these classes.

Now, that said, I am looking for your honest opinion on something:

I did not remotely expect or anticipate the level of interest and support that this subreddit has generated. There are over 5,000 subscribers now, and I am sure there would have been many others if I would have been able to spend more time on this.

How many of you would be seriously willing to spend a small monthly fee (around $5-$10) for these lessons? To be clear, my intention would not be to stop the free lesso

Hello everyone,

The good news is, new lessons will be starting up again soon. I have had a very busy life since my last posts and things are finally starting to quiet down. Therefore, I will probably be resuming lessons within 1-2 weeks.

Now, the bad news...

Reddit unfortunately archives posts older than a certain time, I think six months. As a result, it is impossible for people to comment on lessons.

Unfortunately, I have not yet figured out the best way to tackle this issue. But I am sure we will all come up with something. The need for people to ask questions and get answers is one of the biggest challenges faced by this course.

Edit: farfaraway suggested I install Disqus on the we

A few of you have asked when the next lessons will be published. I realize that especially because I am providing these lessons for free, there is a certain level of anxiety you may have regarding the future of this course. I am sure some of you have started to wonder if I am perhaps "burned out" and have stopped with new lessons altogether.

I want everyone to know first of all that I am not abandoning this. I have every intention of publishing many more lessons, and keeping this going for a long time to come. So first let me relieve anyone's fears regarding that possibility. There will be new lessons as soon as I am able.

As I am sure all of you can appreciate, I have a full-time career.

Here is lesson one. I think it is important for everyone to know this, especially those who have taught themselves a language - or tried to.

Here I am going to briefly discuss the difference between knowing a programming language, and knowing how to actually make something.

Most programming tutorials focus on how to do the most basic programming instructions like if, then, else, and while statements. All of the focus is on how a particular language does these things. Every programming language has this functionality, they all do it in their own unique way.

Very rarely do any of these tutorials explain beyond this. As a result, there are many people out there who have "learned prog

This one - https://np.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6cn70w/what_dark_secrets_do_popular_subreddits_have_in/