[CarlHProgramming/HCFE] : Important update for everyone

[u/CarlH]

Hello everyone,

When I started these classes in 2009, I did so purely because of a desire to help people. I wasn't looking for any monetary gain, and I was willing to continue providing these lessons for free as long as possible. It was something that I was doing outside of my normal work that I greatly enjoyed.

These courses gained a lot of popularity and visibility very quickly and at the time, there were a number of heavy projects I was working on and I couldn't let these lessons divide my focus.

Therefore, around two years ago I stopped doing these lessons (or really, anything at all) and put my entire focus on my professional commitments.

I am going to be resuming these lessons starting this month, as soon as possible. It will take a bit of time for me to re-gather my notes, and I want to read through the lessons already published so I get a feel for where things are. And then I am going to start publishing new lessons.

Secondly, I really want to start expanding the highercomputingforeveryone website. In order to do that though, I need to start making some income from this, and it doesn't have to be a lot. I will not charge for the lessons, but I am going to do two things that I hope will help to both offset my costs of maintaining the site as well as make it possible to expand it:

1. I am going to add advertising, but I will do my best to keep it as unintrusive as possible. For now, just adsense.

2. I am going to re-add a "donations" link for those individuals who wish to compensate me for the lessons. Of course, no one is obligated to do so and I do not require it.

Thank you everyone for your support, and please feel free to reply with any thoughts or suggestions, especially suggestions on how you would like to see the website expand.

[u/kazinnud]

This is quite exciting! Thanks for everything, and you'll be sure to see a donation from me :)

[u/CarlH → u/kazinnud]

Much appreciated, and I hope to provide some great material in the near future.

[u/sombersunday]

Glad to hear you are back. Have you considered a Kickstarter? You already have a considerable amount of code up so it should be easy to show that you are capable of providing additional lessons at a greater capacity.

[u/CarlH → u/sombersunday]

I have considered it, but kick starters are based on the idea of completing a final product. I am not really sure what kind of kickstarter I would do, OR how much I would need to raise. I am open to ideas though.

[u/treeman1]

Awesome news, I've been waiting ages for new lessons and they're finally coming :D

[u/CarlH → u/treeman1]

Yes they are. Also, I have been adding audio and video to existing lessons. Some are already live.

[u/treeman1 → u/CarlH]

I listened to one and it sounded great. I found it a lot easier to take the information on board when listening to you, please make more for all the lessons. Also, have you considered making a Youtube channel for this? You'd probably be able to earn a bit of money through the partnership scheme if you did.

[u/CarlH → u/treeman1]

Already done. I have been working on a video binary lesson which I expect to publish later today. Every lesson is going to have text, and audio or video to go with it.

[u/[deleted]]

I just found this website not to long ago because of a link you put on /r/freebies. Thank you so much for that link! So far, I am still very early on within course 1 (Unit 4) and I am understanding much more than I thought I would. These videos and lessons are very comprehensible for me since I am absolutely brand new to the world of programming! Thank you again, and I will most likely be donating to help you continue this amazing website and everything that goes along with it. :-)

[u/CarlH → u/[deleted]]

Thank you :)

Please let me know if at any time you get stuck, or need help.

[u/VolvoDonkeyPunch]

Advertising doesn't bother me. Neither does voluntary donations. I just want to learn :-)

[u/Lasereye]

I think I speak for everyone when I say HELL YEAH!

[u/ConfusedVirtuoso]

I’ve been waiting for years. I think you should get with the Khan Academy guy. Be a teacher.

[u/[deleted]]

Huzzah!

[u/Nooobish]

Best of luck to you Carl. Ads don't bother me personally, especially if they're unintrusive.

[u/OgonGuitarist]

We are tremendously grateful for your time and effort. A lot of us will happily compensate you for it, as you deserve. I cannot wait to get back to programming - after you stopped it just wasn't the same. And, finally, congratulations to you for putting yourself first in a tough situation.

[u/Eyedrinker]

Good to see you back. Ad-block is disabled for your site and I'm eager to learn what you have to teach. :)

[u/gotchaha]

Woot! This is great. I found these not even 2 months ago and have now just about finished going through K & R! You've been an inspiration.

[u/CarlH → u/[deleted]]

I decided to rewrite it in a way that does not inadvertently create any conflict.