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by jthree 9y ago
I wrote a pretty detailed breakdown of why this doesn’t actually mean what you think it means: https://medium.com/@turingschool/why-i-recommend-flatiron-sc...
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by jthree 10y ago
Name three great for-profit colleges. Ok, name one. Now you see the average for-profit bootcamps being acquired by traditional for-profit colleges. The duty to make financial returns for investors necessitates extracting money from students
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How to Teach Programming in Six Months(jumpstartlab.com)
1 points by jthree 13y ago|0 comments
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How to write effective technical conference proposals(jumpstartlab.com)
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by jthree 13y ago
If people are interested in learning Ruby, Rails, or JavaScript in a "real" environment (running on your own machine, as a normal developer would), we have both a Environment Setup Guide ( http://tutorials.jumpstartlab.com/topics/environmen
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by jthree 14y ago
And at a community college you can qualify for traditional student loans, GI funding, etc -- making the equation a lot easier. If you know of anyone who's completed one of these programs and is now a full-time developer I'd love to meet the
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by jthree 14y ago
Having a CS degree is going to be a tremendous advantage in a program like this, for sure. But I'm guessing Bart, like me, has interviewed kids coming out with CS degrees who just can't program. To be honest, it breaks my heart. If you comp
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by jthree 14y ago
Assume that other people's economics sound a lot easier from the outside :) One big consideration is that there'll be a three-month window in between sessions for the instructors to recuperate, revise the curriculum, and recruit a new class
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by jthree 14y ago
Agreed 100%. There's a big difference between a developer with a big heart and a developer who actually knows how to teach. Teaching, just like programming, takes a ton of practice. I spend four years in the classroom, another two coaching
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by jthree 14y ago
Nothing will speak more clearly than the results, so I can understand some skepticism. I'm the lead instructor for gSchool, Jeff Casimir. I've been teaching Ruby since 2005 and started Jumpstart Lab in 2009. I have both more classroom exper
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Getting Started with Arduino and Dino (Ruby) for Kids(tutorials.jumpstartlab.com)
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by jthree 14y ago
Sure. All 24 of the apprentices were hired to the LivingSocial build team. They're about three months into their work now and are succeeding. Sure, some have moved faster than others, but no one is doing intern work. One is working on rebui
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by jthree 14y ago
Hi, I'm Jeff Casimir from Jumpstart Lab, director of the program. I'll do my best to answer questions here over the coming days if you have them, or ping me directly at contact at jumpstartlab.com