As the game as been down for a while now my brain has been feeling the lack. (being a stay at home day most of my conversation is at 4 year old to 4 month old level) So much so that I did something crazy I stated taking some online education. I know nothing about computer code, so I am useless to help the admins, so I took my first step to becoming code literate. The class is an introduction to computer science the first class started in python (blessedly open source) I have wanted to learn a little about coding for a long time, but it took missing longturn to get me up and doing it. Good times as I go though this long process of becoming code literate I thought I could tell about my experience in this first class then get direction from those more experienced. Right now most advice would go right over my head, but I am hopeing after this first class I might get enough to a least know what I need to learn.
For those who want to do the same and maybe take this journey with me I am taking this class from Khan Academy it is truly a free course. The classes are though Youtube and are 15 to 20 mins long.
Longturn motivation and becoming code literate
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Joe9009
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Marduk
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That's awesome Joe! I'm a great fan of Khan Academy, his math courses are also a great refresher.
Yea we definitally need more code literate admins. Freeciv keeps throwing up new challenges, seems like an excellent source of practice cases for techies with some time on their hands. But definitally too much work for just one admin (Akfaew). He already solved dozens of bugs and now I think RL got in the way.
The summer is usually not the best time to start a new game so this would be a great moment to get some new people in the admin team. Hopefully when most people are back from summer vacation we can move towards the start of LT31. But first we need more admins.
Yea we definitally need more code literate admins. Freeciv keeps throwing up new challenges, seems like an excellent source of practice cases for techies with some time on their hands. But definitally too much work for just one admin (Akfaew). He already solved dozens of bugs and now I think RL got in the way.
The summer is usually not the best time to start a new game so this would be a great moment to get some new people in the admin team. Hopefully when most people are back from summer vacation we can move towards the start of LT31. But first we need more admins.