nealsales

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by nealsales 28d ago
Breathing new life into old hardware is such a refreshing feeling!
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by nealsales 28d ago
I'm more excited to get up and use my computer on Omarchy. Working on it feels more like a video game where I have to solve fun puzzles everyday. I run it on a Framework Laptop 12, an old MBP, and a recently built gaming PC (VR primari
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The Starter League Has Been Acquired by Fullstack Academy(medium.com)
2 points by nealsales 11y ago|0 comments
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by nealsales 12y ago
Founder of Code Academy (now The Starter League) here. Thanks for clarifying this! It seems we'll never live it down. Happy to share more about our experience and how we dealt with the conflicting name.
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by nealsales 14y ago
We definitely have an affinity towards our original Code Academy brand, but unfortunately we had some confusing overlap with another awesome company - Codecademy. Zach Sims and his team are great and he and I have been good friends since we
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by nealsales 14y ago
We're very supportive of Shereef and his team at DevBootcamp. Thankfully we've got the Ruby Dojo http://starterleague.com/dojo (which also sports an 8:1 student/instructor ratio) this quarter which serves a similar audience to DevBootcamp
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by nealsales 14y ago
The application at http://starterleague.com/apply is the first step. As we review applications we choose people to interview either in person, via skype, or by phone. We are looking for passionate and persistent people that are willing to
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by nealsales 15y ago
Just a quick correction to your comment - they are CodeCademy www.codecademy.com, not Code Academy www.codeacademy.org
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by nealsales 15y ago
Our top Code Academy student Geoff Massanek had 2-3 years industry experience (and had even been dabbling in rails for 9 months before) and got a ton out of the program. You can check out his perspective on the experience here http://refac
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by nealsales 15y ago
Getting hired isn't always the goal, and some people (people who didn't have the luxury of a CS degree and/or college) want a better place to seriously get started once they exhaust online tutorials and books.
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by nealsales 15y ago
It's all about what the needs and expectations of the individual is - and properly setting them. As one of the founders of http://codeacademy.org I can say first-hand that it is possible to get people to a point where they are happy with
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by nealsales 15y ago
Thanks. Both http://codemountain.org and http://codeacademy.org are doing very well!
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by nealsales 15y ago
Yep...that was intentional.
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by nealsales 15y ago
How so? And we're definitely providing much more than just "learning rails."
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by nealsales 15y ago
We are going after the same problem with a different solution - http://codeacademy.org Looks great, looking forward to seeing it develop!