Hi everyone.

Lately, I've been considering giving a class on the C# programming language. I haven't given a ton of thought to it because I wasn't sure if anyone would be interested at all. It would probably be a higher level course, though we could go over some basics first if anyone needs it. Also, I'm not sure how to get recording working, but this is how I planned to do it: Record the videos of it, post them wherever, you all go listen to and watch them, then we come here and discuss them. I will help you with homework through the forum, and so on. This is easiest in my opinion, because with programming, sometimes you just need to see something done over and over before it sticks. And as I always say, if you had a problem with something, then almost certainly someone else did too. I know most of you probably like the in-person stuff, like with Rook's original class, but it's not that realistic with a programming class, in my opinion, given that it needs recording. The other problem is getting recording on this damn computer working! (I've tried to do some chess videos for http://www.chessvideos.tv, but I don't apparently have the proper audio codec to get it working with windows media recorder)

I am not sure what all we would need to do for course content. Chess would be so much easier for me to teach, but I'm exploding with ideas for teaching programming due to my job going really well. The unfortunate part is that it might indeed be a lot higher level than most of you would expect. So, my questions at this point are: Who would be interested? Who would be interested in a more introductory course, with the possibility of an advanced course in the future, or concurrently? The fact that it's not exactly live (though I can be in the chatroom to answer questions live if you wish) means we essentially don't need an incredibly detailed schedule. I'd like to keep one, anyway, so maybe if you messaged me what times you would have free, I could plan something out on Google calendar and we go from there.

I've started a bit of a tutorial on design patterns and interesting uses for them (as well as some good arguments against god's existence) at my Scientific American blog at:

http://science-community.sciam.com/blog/Wolfgangsenffs-Blog/570002924

Feel free to pop by!