13th March 2012 9:00
By Blue Tutors
I find it amazing that pretty much all of the improvements I make with Blue Tutors require a significant amount of programming. The qualification stuff I’m working on at the moment really should be quite a non-computer related task, and the clever part is deciding how different subjects are related to each other; you can’t say that relating philosophy and theology should have anything to do with computers. However, every time I solve a problem, I realise that it requires a little bit of new code. I really am curious to know what companies without programmers do in the same situation. I suppose they either plan without using software, or spend a fortune on contractors.
We had a few situations earlier in the week where tutors were late making payments and yet still emailed to complain that they weren’t allowed to accept students. If you’re a tutor reading this then you still may not be aware that if you have an overdue payment request, you can’t access the page to accept potential students. Obviously we know that lots of very good tutors pay us late occasionally, and it’s not something that can be avoided, but what makes me chuckle is when someone in this situation sends a rude email because there’s a student that he/she wants to accept.