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Lambda school is a blessing for those of us born into unfortunate circumstances with limited time, money and an urgent need to support a family and hopefully pull them out of poverty. I start in May wish me luck
Good luck! Things might get hard or seem confusing at times. I still feel that way after years of programming experience. You'll get through it and enjoy the benefits!
Lambda school is a blessing for those of us born into unfortunate circumstances with limited time, money and an urgent need to support a family and hopefully pull them out of poverty. I start in May wish me luck
Good luck!.. I've referred two people to Lambda who start later next month. They're both excited to start and I'm looking forward to hearing how their experience is before I go all-out and refer more people - it's a program that has a structure and philosophy that I can easily agree with.
(I don't know about Lambda School specifically; just speaking of fields here.) Any talk of transferring anything cultural from current software development practice to somewhere else important... makes me nervous, by default. Right now, we have huge problems in software development practice, with both design&implementation quality, and ethics. You don't want your medical device or bridge developed in any way like the…
Completely agree. I don’t want medical practitioners who finished a medical bootcamp last week googling best practices on their phones and pretending to know what they’re talking about while I’m sedated in the OR.
I wonder if it's cheating to sign up for Lambda School if you have no intention of getting a job.
There was a recent post on how a simple thing like checklists can really cut infection and death rate by half or something. And there were startups that attempted to do this at the doctor level but failed to be able to drive change.
Would you be the GitHub of nursing - drive change from bottom up. Build checklist creation and adherence at the nurses level ?
(I don't know about Lambda School specifically; just speaking of fields here.) Any talk of transferring anything cultural from current software development practice to somewhere else important... makes me nervous, by default. Right now, we have huge problems in software development practice, with both design&implementation quality, and ethics. You don't want your medical device or bridge developed in any way like the…
Completely agree. I don’t want medical practitioners who finished a medical bootcamp last week googling best practices on their phones and pretending to know what they’re talking about while I’m sedated in the OR.
That's what all of those medical texts in hospital offices are for. Instead of Google, pull text off the shelf with some notes or annotations.
(I don't know about Lambda School specifically; just speaking of fields here.) Any talk of transferring anything cultural from current software development practice to somewhere else important... makes me nervous, by default. Right now, we have huge problems in software development practice, with both design&implementation quality, and ethics. You don't want your medical device or bridge developed in any way like the…
Unfortunately, this may already be the case with people who graduate from medical assistant and physician assistant schools. From what I hear from doctors is that the quality of these graduates are sub-par. They are usually confident in their medical knowledge while repeatedly failing to show the conscientiousness needed to practice medicine without harm.
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> that is industry-specific Don't you mean role/responsibilities specific? What happens if one of your students takes a web app developer role at, let's say, an auto parts manufacturer?
Then yes, we’d say they’re still working in the “software” industry
(I don't know about Lambda School specifically; just speaking of fields here.) Any talk of transferring anything cultural from current software development practice to somewhere else important... makes me nervous, by default. Right now, we have huge problems in software development practice, with both design&implementation quality, and ethics. You don't want your medical device or bridge developed in any way like the…
> You don't want your ER nurse to be smug about how smart they are, while they do shoddy work with fad tools and halfwitted cargo cult processes. Unfortunately, this may already be the case with people who graduate from medical assistant and physician assistant schools. From what I hear from doctors is that the quality of these graduates are sub-par. They are usually confident in their medical knowledge while repeate…
(I don't know about Lambda School specifically; just speaking of fields here.) Any talk of transferring anything cultural from current software development practice to somewhere else important... makes me nervous, by default. Right now, we have huge problems in software development practice, with both design&implementation quality, and ethics. You don't want your medical device or bridge developed in any way like the…