[17 year old drives web app development]
How amazing is this? A 17 year old student was faced with a problem: how to keep track of school work? Well, Andrew Shaper just went and created an amazing free online resource that allows students (it is geared toward secondary school and undergrad. students) to add assignments, classes and, the best bit (it's also the best bit for Christopher Dawson at ZDNet) is the ability to upload assignments via e-mail or text message to the site. Very well connected. I can imagine asking my own students to read Chapter 5 "Encoding and Retrieval from Long-Term Memory" in Cognitive Phsychology: Mind and Brain, and then they'd text this assignment to Soshiku. A really excellent example of filling a gap and being creative.From the site:
"What is Soshiku?
Soshiku is a simple but powerful tool that manages your high school or college assignments. Soshiku keeps track of when your assignments are due and can even notify you via email or SMS.
And it's totally free."Labels: academic, assessment, education, knowledge representation, learning, university, web 2.0
posted by Jess @ 13:49
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Hi Jess, thanks so much for the kind words. Bleh, is that really what the front page looks like? Looks like I've got some tweaking to do. ;)
You've done a brilliant job! There's plenty of time for tweaking!
I'd love to know how you actually *began* the creation of this website. What made you decide that it be web based...and did you have all the necessary programming language already?
Really impressive! Congrats on putting into practise a wonderful idea.
Thank you for the compliments. :)
I just thought having it be web based would be the best/easiest way to reach the audience. Also, I've been very active in web development for several years (everything self-taught).
It was only a while ago that I began learning Rails (the framework that Soshiku is built on), and I loved it so much that I decided to use that once I got the idea for Soshiku.
Ah, so from the outset you wanted Soshiku to be accessible, i.e. have a wide reach.
Interesting that you say you're self-taught. It seems this is the general tendancy, for people working with new/emerging technologies to pick things up as they go. Did you learn Rails on your own too - at your school, are there any provisions for this kind of learning?
I note you do have a blog (at least one associated with Soshiku) but you're not linking to it via your comments here...?
Quite a few students (undergrad. and Masters) read this blog, would you have any suggestions for them on how to put into practise their (buisiness, web app., etc...) ideas?
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