jamesmanning

What's up with all the trolls on this thread?

any chance they (or github, or someone else) will enable bidirectional syncing of changes? It'd be nice to see 2 or 3 of the ones out there support not just importing, but also methods for automating the syncing of changes, especially if that means that I can do a github pull request and it automagically becomes a branch or patch file sent to an svn-hosted project.

Will they record/share the videos/lectures/notes?

It seems like it could also be a boon to many others if they can take the efforts of this school and share them out, similar to OCW at MIT, or Stanford, or even Khan Academy.

I think it would be particularly interesting because the other material out there tends to target either too high (the university material is at a university level, of course) or it doesn't have the same kind of feedback as what the students will be able to give here.

While Joel doesn't want it to just be superstars, it seems fairly likely that a good number of the kids would be the kind that already wrote their first OS and compiler before they attend, so I'm wondering if there will be a similar 'level divide' as what's seen in industry, and if so, what that ends up doing to the ones below that Mendoza line...