Sign-Up

Anyone can follow a guide on P2PU. Participating is the next level of engagement. The sign-up is a space where interested individuals can express their interest and background in the topic and commit to working with the rest of the participants. Please answer the following set(s) of questions if you want to become a participant or organizer.

Standard Set

This set of signup questions is common to all study groups, courses, ... in P2PU. The answers to these questions will be public once you get accepted.

Answers

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  Aberen   Sept. 26, 2011, 4:14 a.m.

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  Working as a frontend developer, i wanna make my backend skills better.

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  Holland   Sept. 26, 2011, 4:08 a.m.

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  Front-end developer looking for real-world projects to hone his toolset. 

  wow - that sounds kinky. 

  Location: Holland, ja!

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  I'm interested in gluing all the random knowledge I've accumulated into a cohesive project, so that I might get a more practical sense of building projects like these (I currently contribute to these with css and jquery, often templates and designs but much gets lost when turned-over to other developers…seriously, who uses javascript roll-overs these days anyway? Answer: My programmers do. Sigh.)

  I integrate cms systems and contribute to forums developement, but I feel the facebook model of user-driven guiding is really the way forward. By the end, I want to stand toe-to-toe with them and show how best to accomplish a site like this, how to extend it, how to speed it up and how to move communities into the next generation of the web. 

  As I've had over a decade of traditional web development under my belt, I'm more than happy to help in the guide organization.  

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  mwilcox   Sept. 26, 2011, 4:05 a.m.

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  Location: Auckland, New Zealand

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  • What made you interested in this topic?
  • I've been running and designing sites but mostly on other platforms (wordpress etc)
  • What do you hope to achieve by participating?
  • I want to learn more about back-end systems.
  • Are you interested in helping with the guide organization?
  • Sure I'll help
     
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  sawadee   Sept. 26, 2011, 4:04 a.m.

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  • Found it on reddit.com, and since I want to become a better web developer this sounded like a cool thing to follow.
  • I hope to improve myself and learn new ways of doing things.
  • ATM, no. Not sure what it means or what I could contribute with.
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  Bourkster   Sept. 26, 2011, 4:02 a.m.

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  I've always harnessed an interest in web development. While I'm  somewhat skilled, I always seek new techniques and design ideas which may further my understanding and abilities.

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  z59sg   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:52 a.m.

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  I've always wanted to be a web developer. Finally there's a chance for me to learn about building something as big and as cool as Facebook. Of course I'd want to sign up.

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  SCD   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:47 a.m.

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  It's currently a very active subject (social web) and knowing how they are put together would be extremely interesting

   

  A new understanding on social websites and the languages they are written in

   

  Not at this time

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  bitterjay   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:41 a.m.

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  College student

  Location: Colorado

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  You're teaching me how to code! What more can I ask for?

  To learn more about coding websites!

  Yes I'm interested.

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  anon1018201721   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:37 a.m.

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  I am a graphic designer and saw this as the perfect opportunity to learn back-end coding.

  I have a moderate understanding of html and css, as well as putting together wordpress themes.  I hope to achieve a greater understanding of site infrastructure.

  Once I feel comfortable conveying information to a body of people, I would be more than happy to assist with the guide organization. 

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  ok-11   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:34 a.m.

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  -One of the most successful websites on the ENTIRE internet, who wouldn't want to learn how to program it?

  -Learning the basic design of a fully functioning website, from the ground up. Being able to translate this knowledge for a few other projects I have in mind.

  -Don't know what I can do, but I'll gladly give assistance where I can :)

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  Wulf   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:33 a.m.

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  Yes

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  clawesome   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:32 a.m.

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  Location: Orlando

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  Looks interesting.

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  Matt   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:30 a.m.

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  Location: Columbia, MO

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  I'm currently an IT student, and web design is something I would like to learn more of. I hope to be able to gain a better understanding of everything to goes into creating a website as extensive as Facebook.

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  Anonym   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:26 a.m.

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  Location: Australia

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  Interested in web development as a University student with no commercial background

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  Cid   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:25 a.m.

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  Location: Melbourne, Australia

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  What made you interested in this topic?

  I'm keen to see how PHP can be used to deploy a large scale application, and what (if any) framework is used.

   

  What do you hope to achieve by participating?

  I hope to get a better grasp of PHP development and jQuery integration.

   

  Are you interested in helping with the guide organisation?

  No.

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  zkuvalja   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:19 a.m.

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  I am a man, and I like design and programming.

  Location: Zagreb, Croatia

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  I would love to learn these technologies in a practical way such as this, and also learning how to duplicate such functionality. Plus, you usually learn each of these languages separately and here I think there's a great chane to quickly learn how they work together.

   

  Well, I hope to learn, a lot! 

   

  I am interested in helping out.

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  bigdbag   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:19 a.m.

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  Was interested in developing a social network for a site idea.  

  Learn some new tricks in PHP.

  Not particularly, sorry.

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  Jisusu   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:11 a.m.

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  • I have previously had a rudimentary knowledge of web design, my experience in coding lying primarily in natural language processing and machine learning areas. Currently, however, I am switching degrees to a more art based course and would like the knowledge to create something efficient and useful behind my designs on the web.
  • By participating I hope to not only gain a knowledge of those languages and systems I have as yet only a basic knowledge of, but also to understand how such a large and successful website can be run so efficiently the world over. I want to learn elegant and efficient coding, and learn most easily by linking what I learn to examples from life, so this course is ideal.
  • Perhaps at a later point but at the current time, because of my schoolwork as well, I will have to decline.
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  mars   Sept. 26, 2011, 3:10 a.m.

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  why?

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  lochnessduck   Sept. 26, 2011, 2:59 a.m.

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  recent college graduate (NOT in cs) who sees  web design in his future

  Location: Richland, WA

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  1) I just found out about p2pu.org. I'm interesting in programming and want to design my own website in the next couple years. This seems like an excellent step in that direction, and who knows when the ability to add social interaction between users will come handy? This is perhaps an ambitious project to take on...

  2) I hope to learn a little bit of everything, and all about building a website for social connections. 

  3) I am stretching belief that I'll be able to fully understand everything as it happens, so no.