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In general, sure, that sounds like a great idea.

As for the actual linked website, https://www.virtualprogrammingtutor.com/, it's highly unclear what the deal is. Are the people requesting tutoring going to pay for this? Do the tutors get paid?

Teaching programming to become a better programmer is one thing, teaching programming for free so that someone else can make money is a another thing.




I do some mentoring on Codementor.io from time to time. Scammiest thing I've seen so far: program in Africa, teaching underprivileged to code. I was willing to mentor not for free, but at about 1/3 of my rate as I was on-board with what I thought the mission was. Then they asked me to sign an NDA... turns out the org was having the kids do client work. I noped out of that.


Did you come across this on Codementor?


Yes




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