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I like what I see, but contrary to Microsoft's new ideas about UI, a 'search' is not superior to an old school hierarchical "browse by category" UI. (search belongs as a counterpart to it).
Choosing "brows all categories" gets you one hell of a list of vids so looking for "introduction to C++" will involve a lot of scrolling through hundreds of vids. But then one sees a category list on the left, and since I'm looking for one specific language, I choose "language", and the list becomes smaller, yet I'm no closer to finding what I'm looking for, so I surrender after playing with the "order" of the list, an looking through som pages of the list, and goes to search "C++".
Searching for "C++" gives you a big list, (no surprise, due to it's complexity), but I'm looking for the first in a series, so I change the "list order" from "relevance" to "released", feeling like an idiot, I change again to "released desc", thinking that the first vid would be and intro video, but how naive of me, ALL videos are released on the same date. Now I sort by price as I suspect the first might just be free and FINALLY I find my "C++ Programming - 0101 Introduction". I now see that this language specific series are placed in the "general programming category", and my heart dies as there are no link to "next video" nor a link to a "playlist" from this series of videos, and my life has lost 15 minutes of productive time to bad UI.
Now I've decided that this series is for me, (I can stand the voice and it's all what I want from tutorial vids)! I want access to it, GREAT! Now I'm not rich so the pricing is great! But I want to buy the series or at least the first ten episodes of a course, so I can watch it all continually, but alas I'll have to buy one at a time, (using even more of the time I should be using for something constructive, like finish that Android app my customer have paid me in advance for).
This is like communism or pure capitalism, it works wonderfully on paper, but reality isn't able to make it work as envisioned.
I'd use it for it's quality and low pricing, but I'll stick to learning or brush up on programming techniques and languages from a ten year old kids for free on YouTube, with much less time wasted.
Sorry to be so negative but I'm a big believer in Bill Gates' idea that a good UI should be defined by the amount of clicks and/or keypress actions done by the users, where good means few. (it might not have been Bill Gates' idea but my professor told me so back in school, so there's a 50/50 chance of him being right)
-frank
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Is there a way to rate the teachers ?
Is there a way to rate the students ?
I mean, just being popular doesn't make the course good.
Conversely, if a course is not very popular, but the students who down vote it are from the party! party! mentality gang, then that is a disservice to both the prospective student and the teacher.
Orthogonal Concept: One percent of the people who will use this could not learn anything no matter what. They just aren't cut out for it. On the other end of the IQ spectrum lies that other one percent who could learn anything just by playing the vid in one room while they go take a shower in another.
Another concept: There is a clear and strong tendency for Linguistics and mathematics to lay their tracks in a person's brainworks. some of us are highly mathematical. Some of us are highly Linguistic. Each axis could be conceptually plotted from zero to some large number. Putting those two mental capacities on a 2-D matrix, My own personal position on that matrix will be similar to some, different from others. It would be highly useful if birds of a feather could be flocked together to glean an efficacy index of a given course.
i.e., if my verbal side is 50, and my math side is 50, then I would like to know how other 50/50 people rated course XYZ-101 before I commit the money.
Another concept: some people will stay at anything just to get it done. This is a highly commendable character trait, but it is a disservice (and indeed antithetical) to the goal that I would have (and I believe you have designed into this). The idea is that the course material is presented in a way that maximizes the student's learning. Every one of us has bitter memories of faculty members who refused to teach (as if it somehow made them "better" or whatever). The dogged never give up crowd could vote up a course, despite it being horrible. These people, while far fewer in number, are the opposite end of the spectrum from the lazy party party gang described earlier.
The concept of all these different kinds of people (different from me, that is) rating a course, means that I will have a number that I can't really use for a truly good decision about whose course to take.
So, here's what I suggest: Create a super-duper database where people can match their verbal, mathematical, and dedication indicies with others who have similar traits, and see how those people rated a given course.
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Right off the bat, THIS_OFFER[^] caught my attention.
How do I find out how much the full 60 day course costs, before I sample the free stuff ?
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That one's free. The "Watch free" is a bit of a giveaway, no?
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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All sixty days of lessons ?
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Trainers have the ability to bundle up videos into courses, and these courses will display a total cost. It doesn't look like Shivprasad has bundled these up into one package.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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In honour of CodeProject.TV's launch, LearnNowOnline is offering their tutorial videos for free. Check it out here[^].
Carrie
Follow CodeProject.TV on Twitter
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Click on it to play the video. Should work. Let us know if there are any problems.
Carrie
Follow CodeProject.TV on Twitter
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When I go to "My Settings" -> "Private Info" I don't see any indication in the browser (IE8 and Chrome 26) that this is a secure page. I would hate to enter my Address and Paypal information if that is the case.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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I've asked that it be moved to SSL
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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That reminds me, should issues like this be reported in this forum, the CodeProject Site Bugs / Suggestions forum or somewhere else?
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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This forum is best for CP.TV stuff.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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My bad. You already wrote that in your sticky.
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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First of all: Great job, I kinda like it (and I do not like many things).
Second of all:
Why is it not possible to have the same account for codeproject.com and codeproject.tv?
I am kinda sick of all the different accounts I need in my dev-life and even though I really like codeproject.tv, it makes me feel sorta bad to need another account.
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You use the same account to sign on with.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Thanks for the quick answer, Chris.
Why do I have to fill-in the paypal account in my private info?
I do not intend to sell videos, but I might upload one or two for free...
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We're still tweaking the UI, but you'll need PayPal info if you wish to purchase a non-free video. If you don't want to buy or sell then there should be no reason to fill in those details.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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What If you don't have a pay pal account ? nor want one.
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PayPal is the only method of payment we're supporting at the moment.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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Chris Maunder wrote: If you don't want to buy or sell then there should be no reason to fill in those details.
But there is one. You force me to fill it in.
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It's one thing for us programmers to communicate in writing, that's as safe as it gets. But now you're going to make us look at each other? This is progress?!
Well, at least we can't smell each other yet over the Internet, although Google seems to be working on it. I worry for the future.
Just kidding, awesome job guys!
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I know. It can be scary.
cheers,
Chris Maunder
The Code Project | Co-founder
Microsoft C++ MVP
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StatementTerminator wrote: Well, at least we can't smell each other yet over the Internet
After what I had for supper last night be thankful you can't. You'd not want to be within a mile of my ground zero.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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