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Glitch Academy: 1,000 Students

Hi Everyone,

I just wanted to let you know that a couple of hours ago, Glitch Academy received its 1,000th student! 

Laerwen was this fortunate glitch and has, in celebration, received a special 'stipend' to use however she likes (housing/board/new fuel maker).

I would have liked to announce this news with new features but the unexpected growth from this first week actually required an academic restructuring (*cough* code revision) in order to handle projected expansion.

If you are interested, however, the Academy just launched its own Twitter account that will tell you each day how many classes students were enrolled in.

I would also like to thank everyone who has bought me a drink. As the German winter rolls in, there's nothing better than a beer by the fire. Thank you very much!

Peace.

Posted 14 months ago by Code Dev Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • Thank YOU Dev for the academy :)
    Posted 14 months ago by Momo McGlitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thank you again so much for your generosity! I will put it to good use! :D
    Posted 14 months ago by Laerwen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Link to academy? Sounds great.
    Posted 14 months ago by Supershero Subscriber! | Permalink
  • You can find the Academy at http://academy.juiciobrennan.com/. Thanks Code Dev, it's probably my favorite use of the API!
    Posted 14 months ago by Effigy Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for the catch, Supershero. Done.
    Posted 14 months ago by Code Dev Subscriber! | Permalink
  • All of a sudden this tool is not working properly.  I was learning Gardening V, and it decided I didn't meet the requirements and switched me to Tinkering V.   I switched it back to Gardening and it then decided I couldn't learn Tinkering OR Gardening.   

    Email as follows:

    ♥Linnaea♥ has successfully enrolled into Animal Kinship VII. This class will last for 3 days 8 hr 9 sec.

    The next scheduled class will be Engineering I.

    ♥Linnaea♥ was unabled to be enrolled in the following classes:

    Gardening V
    Tinkering V

    Please check the class requirements and try again.

    Sincerely,

    Glitch Academy Registrar
    Posted 14 months ago by Vicereine Linnæa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • One of the 2 apps I can't live without. Thank you again!
    Posted 14 months ago by Nerdcore Subscriber! | Permalink
  • very useful, helps me peacefully sleep all night
    Posted 14 months ago by Raktivist Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Wooo hooo.  Big it up for my homegirl Laerwen!
    Posted 14 months ago by dmnddgs Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Linnaea, something strange happened for me during the night, too. I was learning Refining II, and was well into it. I set up a skill queue a few "classes" long  and went to bed. I got up this morning to see that my current skill had paused and that my next skill in the queue was being learned! I don't know what happened there. :\(Sorry if this is a support issue that belongs elsewhere, but I didn't know where else to mention it!)
    Posted 14 months ago by Laerwen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Hi Linnaea and Laerwen,

    I'm sorry to hear about your issues. I am afraid that at the moment, I am not exactly sure what could have caused this, but the most likely explanation of both your issues would be that the Glitch servers are telling the Academy that you weren't learning anything when in fact you were. In order to prevent this, I have taken the following steps:

    1) A complete code review to make sure there were no logic errors behind the Academy

    2) The Academy now checks a 2nd time to see if you are learning a skill (right before it attempts to enroll you in your next) to make sure there was not an issue the first time around.

    3) All 'listLearning' responses from the Glitch servers are being stored for players who it says are available for their next skill. In other words, I can now check to see what the Glitch servers said specifically about your glitch right before a new enrollment.

    Hopefully, this will prevent any future errors. If it does not, please let me know by posting here or in the other thread. 

    I hope that your Glitch learning schedules were not too hampered by this. Peace.
    Posted 14 months ago by Code Dev Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Thanks for letting us know what's up, Code Dev! I appreciate it and it didn't hold things up much at all. I only had an 8 hour skill next in the queue, and I was asleep for most of it, so no harm done. :D I'll let you know if there's any further hiccups! <3
    Posted 14 months ago by Laerwen Subscriber! | Permalink
  • hmm, so i finished learning BLV and i was all enrolled and ready to start my next skill.

    ....except the academy didn't automatically start it for me! *sadface*
    Posted 14 months ago by Feylin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Remember to also make sure you have all the requirements squared away prior to learning a new skill. Some require you earn achievement before being qualified to learn it. :)
    Posted 14 months ago by VorpalCheese Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Great idea, thanks, hope it works out. I have enrolled!
    Posted 14 months ago by Fstra Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Feylin, the Academy enrolls every 15 minutes, so if you're online and you finished a skill at say 2:37pm, the next skill won't start until 2:45pm.
    Posted 14 months ago by TomC Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I absolutely love this app!! Thank you so much Code Dev!!
    Posted 14 months ago by Victoria Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Ah, thanks TomC, that's what happened to me!
    Posted 14 months ago by Feylin Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Love this app - I want to be clear that I'm not criticizing by explaining my problem that I had with it, just trying to be helpful to make sure it's working as intended.

    In my particular case, I know it wasn't prerequisites that were the problem, because I was already learning G5 when the app decided I didn't meet the prerequisites and switched me to something else.
    Posted 14 months ago by Vicereine Linnæa Subscriber! | Permalink
  • What a wonderful app. Wish this was around at launch. :)  I've registered my remaining skills.  It'll take over a month, but now I don't have to remember to start the next one. 
    Posted 13 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • The best part? I can use favor to speed learn, and not waste time if the learning ends at 3am and I'm asleep and can't start the next skill. Thanks again. :)
    Posted 13 months ago by Tibbi Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yayy!  Congratulations Laerwren!  Also I'm still thrilled at the service you provide, thanks so much. ^_^
    Posted 13 months ago by ♪♥~ Auren ~♥♪ Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Awesome app!  Would be cool to have a campus in Ur for mixers/orientation/alumni events etc...
    Posted 13 months ago by Wald Subscriber! | Permalink
  • update needed for new skills?
    Posted 13 months ago by juv3nal Subscriber! | Permalink
  • Yes. Really wanna see those new skills in there.
    Posted 13 months ago by halfvoid Subscriber! | Permalink