April 18th, 2010 by Kevin Day
Each class now has a status property, which can be either “Under Construction” or “Established.” This indicates whether or not all of the lessons and assignments have been added to the entire class.
The class status can only be set by the creator, or another class administrator. It’s a way to indicate that the class has finally been fully built-out, and if a user is to complete all of the assignments, they should get credit for completing the entire class.
An established class can still be edited in any way, even to add more content. However, students need to have some kind of target to shoot for, and it wouldn’t make sense to take away credit for a completed class just because an instructor comes along later and adds something new.
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April 17th, 2010 by Kevin Day
Your user profile just got useful. Instead of just showing you a boring list of the classes you’re enrolled in, you can now see a progress bar that shows how much of a class you’ve completed:
You can get to your profile page at http://curiousreef.com/username. Check it out, and look for even more improvements there in the future.
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April 10th, 2010 by Kevin Day
You can now update your avatar in your user profile page here:
http://curiousreef.com/user/avatar
The default avatar still pulls from Gravatar, but if you don’t want to use them or want to override your Gravatar, just upload your new image.
Try it out! It adds personality to the discussions.
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March 2nd, 2010 by Kevin Day
It’s fun to see what other people are learning. Google Trends is typically used to measure popularity of a topic, but I wanted to try something different.
Twitter is a good place for tracking what people are doing, so let’s see if we can get an idea of how many people are learning Django. I picked Django because that’s what Crunch Course is built with, so it happens to be on my mind a lot now. While we’re at it, we can compare it to Ruby on Rails to see how they stack up.
Below is a graph of how frequently people tweet about learning Ruby on Rails versus learning Django:
The results show that Django and Rails are about equally popular among Twitterers, with about 5 tweets per day on each subject. It could be that the search was too restrictive by including the word “learning” in the search, but I also didn’t want to capture every tweet tangentially related to each framework. I just wanted to see who is actively learning it right now.
The searches are general matches for learning rails and learning django. If anyone put the words “learning” and “django” anywhere in their tweet it would count as a match.
I captured the data by storing those Twitter queries in my Clicky analytics account. They did the hard part by polling Twitter every day and emailing me the results. I just graphed the data.
Although there are quite a few relevant tweets in the results…
…there are also some tweets unrelated to web frameworks that are included in the tally:
I didn’t make any attempt to clean up the data and remove the non-relevant tweets. It’s just for fun and a way to get a rough data point about what frameworks are hot in Twitterland.
What learning topics would you like to see monitored on Twitter?
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