[Gambas-user] We should offer online Gambas courses!

[jbskaggs]

I would like to set up a online gambas school where the more experienced
users and coders here could offer an online workshop on Gambas for users.

Make it an affordable cost (Like a $0 to $25 a course, depending on
complexity, length, and time required. A course on making Forms should be
free, but a all inclusive course on writing a mmorpg in gambas should have a
fee attached)  and offer a workshop for different fundamentals:

I know for me a lot of Gambas is intuitive but much of it isn't.

Im thinking it could be setup on a moodle or someother workshop / class
software.  With online lessons and quizzes for free but to get the actual
coding graded it would require a live teacher to grade and comment thereby
why a nominal fee would be justified.  I could even host the moodle site and
help admin it but my programming knowledge is so low I wouldn't make a good
teacher.  But I could help someone setup a course and host it and that
person could charge a reasonable fee to teach the course. (Though in the
spirit of linux the less money the better.)

For example I would be willing to pay right now to be tutored in how to
reference, manipulate, and check objects and controls via code (dynamically
via nested loops and such).  I read the documents- I look at the examples
and still I get the wrong impressions and waste hours and hours on many
different controls or functions.

I helped setup an online bible college and the way it ran was every course
had a different instructor (or most did) and those instructors set their own
prerequisites and graded assignments on their own schedule (within reason).

But the very basic courses were almost entirely automated - no need to have
heavy instructor interaction.  But as the courses became more in depth then
instructors became paramount.  Because students needed to ask questions and
yes other students could answer and even grade (though their gradings were
subject to instructor override.)

I look at the number of basic questions on Nabbles and just think that a
systematic instruction courses would make gambas bloom even more.   

Maybe something like:

1- Setting up your Gambas
     a. download and installation
     b. Defining preferences and intro to Gambas

2- Mastering the IDE interface:
     a. creating projects, forms, simple control, saving, compiling, and
packaging
     
3- Gambas Programming fundamentals: A big unit broken into smaller courses
     a. Forms
     b. Controls
     c. Assignments, Operators, Strings, Numbers, and Booleans
     d. Comparisons, Loops, and nestings
     e. Good programming, coding practices, and the Gambas Programming
language

4. Components: Another big unit
     a. gb
     b. gb.compress
     c. gb.chart etc...

5. FX
    a. BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, etc what they are.  Editing and making them.
    b. Animations and movies
    c. creating, editing, and sounds and music

6. Application specific courses:
   a. How to write a text editor
   b. How to write a scrolling shooter game etc and so on

and so forth.

And of course offer a Certificates for completing the courses.

I know moodle and setting up the site would be easy- and if someone wanted
to teach a course I could setup the course, forums, and quizzes etc.  I
could make some beginner courses on my own- but I would need help with more
advanced subjects.  

Any thoughts? Objections? Volunteers?

JB Skaggs
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