We should shut down other people who are being needlessly facetious.
But to suggest that rejection should be our default behavior is absurd. Discussion should be encouraged because, more often than not, neither side is 100% correct. The way we further ourselves is by talking to those people with dissimilar views.
I've seen this response to others working on new languages. How do people expect languages to improve without hobbyists honing their skills? A lot of _good_ languages start out in one person's head so please keep at it!
I tried to sign up (because it's a fantastic idea) but I got:
"We're sorry, but something went wrong."
when I tried to authorize the application in GitHub. If this is your project I'd love to try it out if there's another way for me to sign up (or another date I can try).
I've recently used this library to make an ear trainer app (http://www.earbuilder.com). It's pretty easy to use and the creator responds really quickly - the only issue I have at the moment is playing sounds simultaneously within Chrome.
That's awesome feedback and something I wouldn't have come up with - so thank a lot! I'm going to release a newer version with more "Settings" options so that people can customize a bit more.
I don't quite understand what you mean by preview the sounds? Do you mean like previewing the intervals? I can add small buttons next to each to give you a glimpse - thanks for the suggestion!
I was mostly going off the assumption that people would select one or two intervals at a time, learn them through error, and then select a few more but this is an easy change for more clarification.
- That's not a feature yet but I'll definitely add it to the todo list since people train in both ways.
- Whenever you answer, the sound plays again: if you get it wrong it repeats, if you get it correct then it plays a new interval. But I can see how that isn't clear so I'll change the wording / possibly animations.
(I suck at HN. I thought I could post text AND a link... anyway, here's what I wrote.)
Hi HN,
I've been taking guitar lessons and one thing that is recommended to most musicians is ear training - where two different notes are played and you must identify the number of steps between the notes. My app, Earbuilder, should help with that process.
It's my first web app, and my first real foray into JavaScript. You can take a look at the source and you'll see that it's pretty poorly structured, but I've picked up a book and hopefully things will improve with my second web application.
Please let me know if you have any comments, suggestions, or hate because I'm looking to improve this over the coming weeks!
I had to code a project in C once - nothing big, maybe 200-300 lines of actual C code. Instead of going straight to the computer, though, I sat down with a coffee for 2 hours and wrote the entire thing on paper.
Have you ever sat down at a computer and not known exactly where to start on a project? Usually this is because you've started too early. There's not enough content in your head to form a mental model of your problem.
Sitting away from the computer introduces a barrier and forces you to reconsider whether you have assimilated enough material before sitting down to program.
http://www.thesoftwaredevelopmentlifecycle.com/?p=401