12/17 - Sudden Sunday!

Yeah, I personally think that most Lynda courses are "just OK". The main benefit to the site IMO is the "buffet-style" pricing.

 

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 288

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 276
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $7.42
- HIT reward earned: $208.66
- Total Amount earned this week: $216.08

 

'As Golombia observed, the pipe-smoking “Turk” from which Amazon’s microwork platform gets its name was part of a craze for automata designed to resemble the oriental “Other,” the docile and obedient Muslim of Christian theology.'

 

Matt comes home last night, "how was your day?"

Me:

 

The following is a summary of activity for your Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Dec 16, 2017.

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 993

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 2,366
- Number of HITs rejected: 1
- Bonus reward earned: $54.55
- HIT reward earned: $246.62
- Total Amount earned this week: $301.17

 

So now the million dollar question? Why do I want to buy your courses? What does it offer that others don't? That may be cheaper or free?

 

For those who are not high earners on Mturk, here's some inspiration (?)

The following is a summary of activity for your Mechanical Turk account for the week ending Dec 16, 2017.

Your HIT activity for this week:
- Number of HITs submitted: 63

Approvals and payments that occurred this week:
- Number of HITs approved: 62
- Number of HITs rejected: 0
- Bonus reward earned: $3.56
- HIT reward earned: $18.75
- Total Amount earned this week: $22.31

 

They make great reference material alongside hours of Douglas Crockford.

 

If you can find a course that teaches you to write mTurk scripts for cheaper or for free, then by all means, take it! Lol.

My course is concerned with scripting specifically as it applies to mTurk, so it will de-emphasize some things that other courses teach which you won't need so much, and put extra emphasis on things you'll need in order to modify others' pages that perhaps weren't designed to be modified.

For example:

CSS selectors (for picking elements) will be a big emphasis. When you're the one in control of a site, you can easily use IDs and classes to make everything easy to select. But when you're trying to isolate elements on someone else's page, a more in-depth understanding of selectors is useful.

 

Love Doug. He's great. Fun teacher to watch, his asides are fun, great programmer.
The biggest issue I have with his stuff is that a lot of his material is unfortunately out-of-date.
The video you linked, for example, was uploaded in 2011 and recorded in 2007. Myspace was still ahead of Facebook back then.

 

Lol.

Yeah, that'll probably be towards the tail end of the first course, though I might postpone it to the beginning of the 2nd one instead, since it's not really necessary.

The biggest benefit people will get from learning jQuery is that they'll be able to read code that others have written using jQuery.

 

When I learned how to script it was a real PITA. First watch a few ahk vids, cool I think I got it. Then learn there is this thing called javascript, have to learn that. Finnaly know some javascript from the tutorials, awesome. I want to write some stuff, but what is all that goofy bullshit with // @ at the top of the javascript. Back to square 1 figuring out all that crap. I get some descent javascript written but how do I get it into my hits. Learn all about Tampermonkey. Am I finally going to be able to put to use all this code, and not completely waste all the time I spent learning how to do it? Maybe, I've got a Tampermonkey script with some nice javascript, but I cant get the script to load. WHY THE FUCK WONT IT LOAD. Expense of a new mouse inserted here, because I threw my current mouse at the wall as hard as I could. An iframe, whats that?

I think @Totally Not , is planning on fixing these issues by putting your learning an a logical order, making sure nothing important is missed, and helping you get started. 10 bucks is cheaper than my mouse, FWIW.

 

Just going to leave this here......

https://gyazo.com/26deb4f03dc77c752affb427fd00857f

 

I feel so restricted there.. I can't laugh at the post, I HAVE to like it, and I can't respond to it with a gif of a child licking a window.

 

He's also the 1st to say Javascript is on it's way out like Flash in favor of HTML5.



That's what makes all this SO difficult. Where to really focus your attention? You have to know the basics for all of the web lang. but too far and your stuck with a brain full of a dead language like so many before.

*funny the video starts with a Python ad*

 

I learned some java long ago, from some professor on youtube. His style of teaching was very good and any to comprehend.