makuchaku

Joined 18 years ago

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Co Founder & Chief of Technology - http://adomado.com
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Comment · 6 months ago
Congrats to the entire team!
Comment · 1 year ago
Amazing work!
Comment · 1 year ago
Abut time that someone built this in ruby! You rock!
Comment · 2 years ago
Also, +1 to chapters as someone mentioned in the comments.
Comment · 2 years ago
Great work. A few ideas

1) Speed : the site is often showing heroku errors. Seems like you are running the entire processing in the request-response cycle. If not already done, please try to use a queueing system to perform async processing - and then let the user know when their video is ready to view as steps (probably via email or browser notifications). This will stop your site from crashing frequently and you'll be able to scale to many users very quickly.

2) Please add link-backs to the specific time in the video from where the step is shown.

Cheers!

Comment · 3 years ago
I personally taught my 8yr son programming using Swift playground on an iPad. Its a great visual app which asks kids to solve fun challenges and minimal coding - but teaches them basics of variables, if/else, loops pretty well. Its a great starting point.

He also experimented alot with scratch.

Now he's 9 and learning intermediate Python through community classes taught by our area hi-schoolers.

He recently made a summer holiday project called "Story Machine" which takes 5 nouns, calls a generative AI API to create a story, uses Spacy to find nouns and randomly replaces those nouns with another set of random nouns - creating a funny story in the process. UI input using tkinter :-)

I helped him to learn concepts like API calls, JSON, generative AI, UI, event based coding etc - he google searched himself to figure out how to use those concepts.

Once you teach them the basics, they will fly!

Comment · 4 years ago
Cracking the PM interview

Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works

Comment · 9 years ago
How is Dropbox Paper better than Google Docs?
Comment · 10 years ago
I'm still waiting for Indian release :)
Comment · 10 years ago
Some articles have rightly said that "playing Pokemon Go" has suddenly become more interesting to the masses than "Dating" :)

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