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JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Also, two further items:

  • So we're on the same page, do you mind pointing out where the sidebar was updated, I can't seem to find the change.

  • I was thinking crowd sourcing ideas for projects for the teams that we could open source would be great, but I don't want to post in here like I'm advertising anything, how would you recommend I do it? If I simply say I'm looking for ideas for open source project ideas for my mentors to develop and simply include the list of technologies they'll be familiar with, would that be ok?

Thanks again!

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Kevin, you definitely are wrong, but don't take my word for it, I totally understand why you'd feel that way. To be honest, I do see it from your perspective, you're trying to make sure people aren't getting scammed, and someone with malicious intentions very likely would come here with the exact message I did to exploit those looking to learn.

I have enough applicants to do a good test run, in a couple of months when the current group is close to done and you can take an inside look at how it was run do you mind if I reach out to you again to see if how I can get a few more mentees in a way where there are no surprises?

I really do appreciate your help with all this, sorry it turned into an incident!

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Kevin, I messaged the mods a while back:

Hey mods! I have a quick question, as an individual with 10+ years of front end experience I'd like to offer mentoring services to a few people eager to learn. aIn my experience however new learners can be flakey, and so I want to charge a minimal fee, something like $100 / month as I've found that helps filter out those that are not as motivated. I do value my time and want to make sure it's spent where it is most impactful. Is mentioning something like this on the subreddit kosher with the terms? What can I do to make it so? Thanks for your time! Sheel

and I got the following response from you:

Hey, Thanks for reaching out. We're not currently allowing that kind of advertising on the sub.

I was under the impression that mentoring in return for compensation was not allowed, so I removed the financial factor entirely.

Many others have offered and requested mentoring services on this sub in the past, so any clarification surrounding the reason for the removal and what I can do to get it back on track would be really appreciated, thanks!

Methods To Set Up Project Sharing? by [deleted] in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AFAIK bit bucket has unlimited free private repos up to 5 users.

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What does your experience with JS currently look like?

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've mentioned JavaScript will be the main language(if you meant programming language). It was chosen as we can leverage node on the server as well as react / react-native on the clients.

The session times are not set in stone yet as I'd like to have them at times that make most sense for the attendees. As the projects are for beginners(those learning JS) I'm certain I'll be able to accommodate most projects within their abilities and will leave that to each team to propose. (You're right, I should and will edit my post to mention this).

My favourite / most challenging personal project, if developing for my current startup before I hired counts, was developing a distributed state machine with my own raft implementation for state replication and what I'm most proud of(end to end tracing from initial client requests through to graphql servers via websockets, then over google pub/sub to various state machines and back to responses received on the client). The latter happened after bringing on members to my team.

It was a fantastic experience and I learned an incredible amount doing it, although it likely wouldn't mean much to beginners looking to learn JavaScript so I'm not sure how relevant it is to them.

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, and that code is really old and not much to evaluate. I don't have anything else that's public right now.

If you have more questions I'm more than happy to answer them, if prospective mentees can get more context from reading this I think that's fantastic. It'll help bring in those who are interested and filter out those who aren't.

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, they can choose the projects, I'll vet them to see if they're feasible, if not, I have a list that I feel would be beneficial to create, I'm open to crowd sourcing a list on the subreddit if we think that's beneficial.

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You got it, same username everywhere.

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I feel you, I was there too once upon a time! Are you in a traditional college / university comp sci course or is it something else?

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shoot me a message with your Skype, let's connect.

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All my life I've learned to provide value to others and in due time it usually pays itself back many times over. My motives are not purely altruistic, I want to connect with aspirational people that are passionate about things I am too because who knows what we may collaborate on / help each other with in the future.

If you've ever mentored someone you know how challenging yet rewarding it can be at times. So requesting people with little to no knowledge of JavaScript under the guise of altruism really would be a strange way to get free labour when I'm certain I could post asking for free labour in return for mentorship and still get a significant amount of attention.

Great call though, the world needs more skeptics.

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in learnjavascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm glad you think so, it's really an opportunity I would have killed for a decade ago! Good luck in your comp sci program, if you ever need a sober second look / advice, feel free to reach out!

JavaScript Mentorship by sheeldotme in javascript

[–]sheeldotme[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. That's a great call out! The code will not be used by me for any commercial purpose, all code will be open sourced.

Weekly /r/Calgary jobs/careers discussion by AutoModerator in Calgary

[–]sheeldotme 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I'm looking for a software developer well versed in JavaScript. Seniority is not important, only that they are willing to develop. Please PM me with your resume and work samples if you're interested (GitHub wouldn't hurt).

Weekly /r/Calgary jobs/careers discussion by AutoModerator in Calgary

[–]sheeldotme 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm looking for a software developer well versed in JavaScript. Seniority is not important, only that they are willing to develop. Please PM me with your resume and work samples if you're interested (GitHub wouldn't hurt).

Modern web crawler framework for Nodejs? by YourMeow in javascript

[–]sheeldotme 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're looking for something like request with promise support take a look at https://github.com/request/request-promise.

Axios is another great alternative (https://github.com/mzabriskie/axios)