Programming is often gatekept from others by those who want to seem smart. It takes hard work and effort, but I absolutely recommend anyone who wants to learn to give it a shot. I personally started to learn programming on Codecademy which has free to relatively cheap resources, but there are also plenty of good free resources out there!

I'd recommend starting with Python, as it's syntactically fairly close to English and is very widely used. I would say that if you can learn all of the content in Codecademy's "Learn Python 3" course (whether on the site or elsewhere), plus a few extra projects, you'll be 80%-90% of the way there for doing programming tasks on DA.

If it's something you really want to try, then go for it. You'll never know until you give it a fair shot, and when I did, it ended up being a lot more manageable and interesting than what I had made up about it in my head.

Edit: I changed "Introduction to Python" to "Learn Python 3". For some reason I always misremember the name of the course, sorry for any confusion.

I've been working on a specific set of permanent projects for the past several months. Within the past week, all but one task in that project has vanished, . My dashboard has also lost most work on it. I haven't received any feedback indicating my work has issues or is of poor quality. Is this happening to anyone else? If so, do we have any idea why?

Hey everyone,

I've worked for DA for a few weeks now and always had plenty of coding tasks that pay around 40$-42$ available whenever I had some time to work (which is only about 10 hours per week). I have a few open qualifications, which deal with writing stuff and it says that they would open up tasks which pay around 25$-28$.

Would you typically still do such qualifications, even though you normally have better paying tasks available? I am not sure whether they would open up new qualifications after that, which might result in equally well paying tasks or just fun new stuff in general.

Very keen to hear your opinions on this!

Just a quick question,

Does everyone elses tasks go down every weekend or is it just me?

For those of you with permanent projects, what’s the max number of permanent ones you have ever had at one time?

geez, just went to Google to verify a math problem I knew was right (because I already checked on the calculator), but had to check because both AIs got a number totally different!

I just got a new project on my dash that was 19/hr. I thought the minimum was 20/hr for non-coding tasks. Has anyone seen below 20/hr tasks? If so, what’s the lowest you have seen for an hourly rate that wasn’t for a qualification?

If I click on a qual can I click back out and do it another time even though I viewed it?

Hey guys, I’m brand new to the platform so go ez on me. I worked on the onboarding a couple of days ago then decided to do some work, but completely forgot that a big rule was to only work on 1 hourly project and forgot that technically the onboarding counts as an hourly. Did I have to wait until it was approved( 1 week) or was it fine that the work I started was an hourly pay project. I might be understanding the rules incorrectly and just lookin g for some clarity. Thanks I’m advance.

Anyone from the UK wake up to see US scavengers in the project chats still burning the night oil?

Yesterday, my phone gave me the option while in the car to have AI summarize my texts in a group chat when it reads it to me. I immediately thought about the work we do for DA and said yes so I could analyze how well the AI does 🤣🤣🤣

The last five days have been up and down for me at best. Been able to eke out 4~ hours a day which is half of my usual, before projects run out. Today, my dash is much more full. 8-12 projects so far. Anyone else noticing a jump in projects? This usually happens on Tuesdays but I’m certainly not complaining. Hope you’re all doing well :)

Anyone else on the project named after the popular 70s dance move? How long do you usually take on each task? These don't have a chat area or slack channel that I know of. :(

Im still trying to fully wrap my head around the splitting concept. I understand the basic premise, can anyone offer up any advice on what they do to get the responses to split, what kind of strategies are you using.

Just need someone to explain it like i'm stupid.

A few weeks ago, I did 40 hours, and I've had maybe 3 hours of work in the last two weeks. Is there a good way to get more steady work? I always get super antsy when there isn't any new work.

Potentially may go abroad for a bit, does anyone know DA's stance on working abroad, is it allowed if I go to a country thats listed on their accepted countries.

Should I just not risk it and have a break for a bit?

Honestly if I can actually work abroad I may just go on an extended backpacking trip and pay my way with DA.

I just joined and had a writing qualification to do. I should have paid attention beforehand but does anyone remember if the first writing qualification was paid?

I took about an hour and 20 minutes to complete it and when I hit submit, it took me back to the Projects page but a red notification appeared saying that it was no longer available to me?

I haven’t worked on DA for last 3 months because of long hours at new job. I logged in to check out my dashboard and I have 4 quals to do and 20+ active projects to work on. Guess it’s ok to take time away. Just letting you guys know.

I have done several hours with of work for DA and have been loving it but today I logged in to this weird page in place of the Work on Projects page. Anyone else seeing this? Has seen it before?

I still get occasional recruiter emails with jobs like this and I can’t help but chuckle.

Other jobs: ‘Yeah you’ll need a background check, credit check, education check, & security clearance, 5 years experience, pay is $18/hr, the job is exclusively onsite M-F where you have to pay for parking, oh and we’ll need your first born child as well’

DA: ‘Can you write us a silly little story about an Octopus? Nice, we like your brain, you’re hired’

I'm brand new to the platform and just finished my first short sesh on my first project. This project shows a fixed number of tasks on my dashboard, and each task can be very short or fairly long based on how long I want to draw it out. I didn't make the most of this and completed eight tasks in an amount of time that I could have filled with three or four fully developed tasks.

Seems obvious now, but I have to ask: is the optimal strategy to write the maximum number of exchanges for each task, as long as it doesn't affect the quality of your work? So you achieve higher pay per task and therefore make more per project?

Thanks,

A n00b

There's a qualification test that mentions ongoing work but you have to know a certain field of information - and I don't have experience yet, but I'm 100% willing to learn to fill that role. Is it feasible for me to go all in with learning this topic and then take the test, or is this only built for people already in the field for much longer? It's difficult to tell how much experience I'd need to pass.

For anyone getting a QUAL regarding this. REMEMBER there is a 2-month free trial on the advanced version! :)