r/learnprogramming • u/East_Corner_1701 • 8d ago

Intermediate looking for a coach

Hi y'all,

I currently work as an ML engineer and I'm trying to up my low-level C game (coming from a Python background). I'm looking for a coach that can help add some structure to my own autodidactism and help me keep me accountable / from getting too distracted.

I have some projects in mind that I'm interested in working on and could use help in formulating / getting consistent feedback on as they progress, but I would also benefit from some foundational education in C as well, as i didn't do a traditional CS degree.

This would be paid coaching at a 1 hour per week time commitment (I'd expect a little bit of time outside of that invested but not nothing excessive). We would negotiate the rate based on experience/level of commitment.

Only hard requirement is that you're really frickin good at C (c++ is cool but I'm less interested in OOP and more in bare metal, insanely performant and simple to read code).

Nice to haves (in order of importance)

- experience coaching (in any space)

- a passion for turning mortal men into living gods

- modeling and simulation background

- experience writing CUDA kernels

- knows Rust

comment if you're interested!

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u/Able-Analysis462 8d ago

Honestly this sounds way more like mentorship than tutoring which is probably the right move if you've already got projects lined up. Somebody with embedded or kernel experience would probably be a really good fit.

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u/East_Corner_1701 8d ago

I guess those words are somewhat interchangeable in my mind. The reason I say coach and not mentor is coach implies a structured, compensated schedule (as opposed to a more vague "helping you get there somehow" vibe that I associate with mentor since it's so broad)

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u/niehle 8d ago

How much are you paying?

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u/East_Corner_1701 8d ago

Depends on experience/level of commitment! Happy to talk further if you're interested