Development Course for OS X Online at Hexlet Launched



    About three weeks ago I wrote to Habr about the creation of a small educational project Hakeslet . Thanks to this post, several good people joined the Hakeslet team, and we are pleased to announce that the first free course has started! True, he started a week ago, so if you decide to register for it, then you will only need to catch up with an introductory lecture. The second week of classes begins tomorrow (Tuesday, October 30).

    The structure and content of the course can be found in the short first module of the first lecture:





    Modifications

    You may have noticed: the format of the course does not slightly match the one stated earlier. The fact is that I realized my mistake in time (and the students helped) and corrected myself: instead of simulating a university course online, I decided to do an online course and follow the proven Coursera format: tests right during the lecture, between modules.

    About the start

    At the time of the publication of the first lecture, approximately 1200 students were enrolled in the course (now 1876), and our VPS could not withstand the load. Fortunately, a couple of days before this, thanks to the investments of new team members, user donations , and the work of our wonderful system administrator, Ivan Borovkov and other Hexleters, we rented a server where we moved safely.

    What's under the hood?

    The web server runs on nginx, the educational system engine is Canvas : it is a fairly powerful LMS written in Ruby. Cache - redis. Yandex.Mail for Domains is used as the mail server.

    For the main page and blog of the project, a simple Wordpress is used, which will soon be replaced by Jekyll .

    For work within the team, trial versions of Atlassian products are used so far: Jira, Confluence and Stash.

    Plans

    In November, the English version of the same course starts. We are interested in trying ourselves in the English-speaking world of free education, dominated by giants like Coursera or Udacity.

    We are also preparing several new courses, mainly in Russian, the first of which should start before the end of this year.

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