My online course on Scala with Pluralsight

Overview

This post will discuss the process and my learnings as first time author. I will discuss

Why I decided to teach online course

Pluralsight as my choice of platform

The process

What I learned

The Course

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Why I decided to teach online course

I have been mentoring engineers for couple of years now. I really enjoy the communication and discussions that spark good ideas and challenge me as an engineer to identify examples from our daily lives to explain complex topics. This totally excites me!

The feedback I received in return was also not-that-bad either ;-).

Now, that I work as remote engineer for almost 1.5 years, the challenge got bigger. I had to do 1:1 with people of different skills in the company to explain the problem, discuss the solution and communicate the ideas with management. The repeated exercise made me better in finding such examples and reaching the audience that connects with them.

During all these times, I continued to invest in my skill by saving on commute-time, evenings and weekends. My primary resources to fuel my brain has been videos, books and online documentation.

This gave me the idea that I should challenge myself, get out of my comfort zone and try to teach a course on the topic that I like the most. I also wanted to validate if this is something I would enjoy doing.

Pluralsight as my choice of platform

This part was easy for me. I spend a lot of time learning from Pluralsight. From my perspective, they have an excellent collection of courses, their courses follow a consistent pattern of learning so as a learner you know what to expect.

The thing that was not clear to me was if I could be accepted an author with them, so I applied on https://www.pluralsight.com/teach

The process

The process was simple and logical to follow

Step 01: Audition

I had to submit an audition video. I got the feedback and I had to make changes to the audition video based on the feedback I received. After two rounds, I got the confirmation that I was accepted as an author with Pluralsight!