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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...

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 retur…

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…

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 pr…

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 …

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 t…

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…

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 sta…

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 othe…

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 …