amigadave wrote:
I know we have several excellent tutorials and programming articles as available resources for those of us who wish to learn how to program for MorphOS, but I was thinking of what might be even better, and/or more effective at helping programming challenged persons like myself to become productive MorphOS programmers.

I know that the best of our existing MorphOS developers and third party programmers are busy with their own lives and work, plus they put what little time they have into contributing to MorphOS development, or their own programming projects, but perhaps one, two or three of them could find 1 to 2 hours per week to teach and mentor potential new MorphOS programmers, using both IRC and the existing programming resources, plus maybe some short outlines they could draft to give the group some direction.

Our existing MorphOS Dev. Team, and a very small group of third party programmers, are a very valuable resource that we cannot afford to let slip away without passing on their knowledge and expertise to a new generation of programmers. We are lucky that most MorphOS Developers and Programmers have stuck around as long as they have, but people do leave occasionally and we don't want their knowledge and experience to be completely lost.

I would be willing to pay for such a teaching experience, something like $10 per week, maybe. If there were 5 to 10 other people interested in learning from one or two of our best developers, we could perhaps raise $50 to $100 per week to compensate that one, or two developers for their 1 to 2 hours per week of their time. I know that this small amount is only a fraction of what their time is actually worth, but unless we can find 30 to 50 people to pay the $10 per week, there is no way to adequately compensate the teachers for their true value to the group.

Does anyone else think that this idea could work, and if yes, would you be willing to be one of the students, or one of the teachers?