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Show HN: App Academy Open – Free Online Coding Bootcamp

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Re: Show HN: App Academy Open – Free Online Coding Bootcamp

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Post by CesareBorgia »

Hey all! We launched App Academy on HN 6 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505752), and since then a lot’s happened. We’ve graduated and placed thousands of folks as engineers and actually placed more people as software engineers at Google (30 vs 22) than UC Berkeley has since 2016! Today, we are fulfilling a dream that I’ve had for some time: to put the whole curriculum online, for free. We’ve built a learning platform around it and we’re really excited to give people a taste (or the whole thing!) of the curriculum to help you understand what we’re about.

Re: Show HN: App Academy Open – Free Online Coding Bootcamp

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Post by bruceb »

The quote from the learner: "I learned more real-world skills in 12 weeks than my Stanford degree taught me" reminds me of that both ways penguin meme.

On one hand shows App Academy is "better" than Stanford.

On the other hand to be successful one already has to have a degree from a top 3 school.

That being said nice job having the materials available for free

Re: Show HN: App Academy Open – Free Online Coding Bootcamp

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Post by CesareBorgia »

bruceb wrote: post #6

The quote from the learner: "I learned more real-world skills in 12 weeks than my Stanford degree taught me" reminds me of that both ways penguin meme. On one hand shows App Academy is "better" than Stanford. On the other hand to be successful one already has to have a degree from a top 3 school. That being said nice job having the materials available for free

Lol good point. It is worth mentioning that a lot of folks with no college degree (sometimes without a high school degree) have successfully been placed in awesome dev jobs with this same curriculum through App Academy. Folks from top 3 (or even top 25) schools are definitely in the minority at App Academy.

Re: Show HN: App Academy Open – Free Online Coding Bootcamp

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Post by CesareBorgia »

lim098 wrote: post #9

What is the curriculum? Is it web development or mobile development?

Web dev. The stack is Rails/React/Redux but we do spend a significant amount of time on language/framework agnostic skills so that folks can pick up new tech fast and so that they have the tools to transition into other fields of software engineering such as mobile.
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