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4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:21
Hey I have professional coding experience with full stack JS. React/Node/PostgreSQL/MySQL.
I'd like to help out for a bit if you guys are open to it.
And learn more about what you guys are doing.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:27
Awesome!
So I intend for the project to get pretty big eventually but for now it's just one thing

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:28
Cool, what is it?

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:29
To put it simply, it's a complicated study app
Ever heard of Kahoot?

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:29
I have not.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:30
So in short, a friend of mine spent his high school years perfecting "the perfect way to study" if you will
And after a few years, he didn't exactly get it down to a science, but pretty close
His idea was to make powerpoints for all sorts of subjects and then give people multiple choice questions
Each time they would answer, it would follow with a comprehensive explanation

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:32
So this is an idea that you haven't started working on?

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:32
So then I came along and decided since it seemed to work so well, I would make it into some legit software
No no, we have

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:32
Ah alright, and this is a non-profit?

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:32
Well currently we are a no profit if you know what I mean
I want to make into one
We will most likely form one around it
But ya know, for the moment it's just details which will start to matter only in a few years time
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So then after a while we made an alpha and started testing it with a local high school
And it seemed to work very nicely
Enough so to win us a few prizes and nominations for a bunch of things, but that's irrelevant
The take-away is that we made something that is effective at helping students
A later, more important take-away that actually got us the awards is that our system also seemed to effectively predict students' grades in advance with a pretty amazing accuracy (i.e. 5% discrepancy or less)

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:36
Hmm, interesting.
And no interactivity at all?
Do you guys have a website up?
What kind of things have you been teaching with this platform so far?

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:37
We are not teaching, it's more for revision
There are enough platforms that teach (i.e. Khanacademy) and we have no intention to go against them
You know what
I'll just give you the demo
Would you speak french by any chance?

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:37
Ah, I see.
Unfortunately I do not speak French. But I do know some German and Spanish.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:38
Spanish will help you out then
https://dev.etudie.ca
username: vknyazev, password: hevy
So when somebody logins, the idea to give them a pretty diverse subject selection

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:39
Cool, one second.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:39
Add a module that has a picture
The rest are broken

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:39
Yeah I see that. Are you guys using React?

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:40
No but I am sure it would be a good idea to migrate to something like it
Currently it's just front-end Ajax

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:40
Ah, I see.
So just jQuery?

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:40
Yea
NodeJS on back-end
Pug for rendering

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:41
Would definitely recommend against Jade.
Not widely supported and not worth the hassle for having some HTML look pretty.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:41
Well... it worked so far. Why's that?
Not widely supported?
We are rendering on back-end
The client just gets html

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:41
Hmm, I see.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:42
But yea, no matter how you twist it, I would love to get rid of my hacky ajax integrations
The user picks a module and then they get quizzed on a topic and given a result at the end with a couple options - retake everything or just mistaken questions
And while they do that we collect a bunch of data
Now the plan for that data is, considering we are good at predicting grades, we can help teachers help students
Just for an idea, we can show where students in general have trouble, who are the at-risk students, high-performance, etc
This will allow teachers to better use their time (i.e. not waste it on things people understood)

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:45
Hmm, I see.
And everyone is using the web interface for this?

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:46
Yes. But apps wouldn't hurt.
And used*. We just ran an alpha which is now over. We're going to aim to launch a feature-rich beta in sometime 2018
Which will have everything we intend to have on the initial release just incomplete in parts
So what do you think?

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:48
Hmm, I see.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:48
I'm not the best at explaining so sorry for that

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:48
I think it'll be a lot of work.
You have the code open sourced right?

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:48
Currently private on github
Can invite you
Invite sent

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:49
Cool, one second!

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:49
The reason it's not public is because our "survival" modal is not set in stone yet

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:49
I could help in porting things over to React if you'd like.
That's mostly my specialty.
As well as Node/SQL.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:50
So you want to be a part of this?

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:52
I'll try to see what I can do. Do you have a checklist for tasks that need to be accomplished or any sort of structure for managing the project?

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:53
I've been the sole developer on it for now, crash-coursing someone to help me out
No way I will end up doing it alone
As for structure
Well, most of the plans are in my head since I had no need to have them written our clearly until now
Some of them are though
Look in the Issues tab, at least 6 of the things to do

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:54
I would highly suggest that be implemented, especially if you plan to bring other people onboard to help out.
I would suggest to use something like waffle.io
Which integrates with GitHub nicely.
And to make a checklist of things that need to be done along with prioritizing them.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:55
Would be a great idea
How much professional experience do you have?
Cause I have none apart from freelancing haha
I have absolutely no experience in managing software projects

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 18:56
Ah alright.
I started off rather weird in where I was put to start as a senior software engineer.
Which was in March of last year.
Although I label myself as a mid-level.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 18:57
I see
I like this waffle thing
At some point this was exactly what I wanted
Most of the time we also operated under strict time limits so we have absolutely no tests
Hence the issue "Write integration suite"

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 19:00
Ah, I see.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 19:00
Our communications are on slack btw

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 19:00
This is something I've been building in my spare time if you want to get a sense of how I build things: http://quantblitz.com/

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 19:00
Want an invite?

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 19:00
I would recommend Discord for communication as well, it's a much better version of Slack.
Faster, free with unlimited history and better UI.
As well as better user moderation tools.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 19:01
Everybody so far preferred slack though
idk, serves our purposes pretty well
Would need your email to invite you tho

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 19:03
Hmm, alright.
You can send the invite to qrx9823@gmail.com.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 19:03
Sent

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 19:04
One second.

Slava Knyazev @knyzorg 19:07
@ me when you get on

4TSG4X @4TSG4X 19:11
Just got on as ryzlix.