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Is it really possible to pick up RoR in 8 weeks to be useful to a company? How is what you're offering any different than this site: http://teamtreehouse.com/ Super honest question, I'm fairly new to the web dev world.
I'm VERY interested in this. Please email me when you have everything set up. Either at my email here or admin at 1every dot com. Thanks. I look forward to seeing you in February.
I look forward to hearing from you.
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I would be willing to pay for something like this.
Mee too, I'm from Europe though. Maybe the OP or somebody in the class could share what they do with as much details as possible on a blog as they go? Would be interesting.
Sounds like an amazing opportunity! If you were in Portland, I'd seriously consider quitting my job to dive in. I'm a non-programmer slowly trying to teach myself in my off time, but it's slow, lonely, hard-to-stay-motivated going. I've contacted a few local web dev companies to try to come in as an unpaid intern to at least try to get into a more conducive environment, but haven't had much luck. Please keep us updat…
Regarding learning Ruby in Portland, make it out to a PDX Ruby Brigade meeting if you haven't already. They have meetings focused on learning Ruby: http://calagator.org/events/1250461371
Will they know what's going on under the hood though?
Taking somebody from ground zero and teaching them enough to be able to debug problems that the hires would need to know in order to be proficient, self starting engineers.. I'm really skeptical about that being done in 8 weeks.
Most of the little tricks and crap I've learned over the years have been through trial and error, and working on many different projects.
More specific examples: for loops not creating scope in javascript and asynchronous calls introducing race conditions due to not understanding them. Those aren't things that are in curriculums, though when trying to build some features most people will encounter them.
Consider me very interested - based in NY but certainly willing and able to go out the Bay Area. My contact info is in my profile, and I'll email you.
This is an interesting business model. I like it, but am interested to see how you will commit people to paying you $100/month for the next 5 years unless structuring it as a loan (which has it's own headaches) For those interested in something similar, my understanding is that Code Academy (Different than YC startup codecademy) http://codeacademy.org in Chicago is phenomenal. I met a bunch of their students at the H…
With the rise and popularity of 'teach to code' services, it remains to be seen which model works best. Taking a person from 0 (or very, very little) knowledge and experience to the point where they can be at all effective as a software developer is difficult. Expecting a matter of weeks to turn someone such as this into hireable material is a dangerous attitude to have. I'm very curious to see the graduates of these…
If anyone would like to know more about our experience starting and running this program - I'd love to help you however I can. It's great that there are so many people getting passionate about the issue of educating more people on how to solve problems through software.
Drop me a line at neal at codeacademy dot org.
This is an interesting business model. I like it, but am interested to see how you will commit people to paying you $100/month for the next 5 years unless structuring it as a loan (which has it's own headaches) For those interested in something similar, my understanding is that Code Academy (Different than YC startup codecademy) http://codeacademy.org in Chicago is phenomenal. I met a bunch of their students at the H…
Sorry, I'm sure you have the best intentions but it's not possible to go in 8 weeks from "no computer science background required" to a rails junior.
My anecdote is about as valid a characterization of whether it's possible in general as your sweeping, baseless generalization.
Teaching somebody how to set up a rails app with some basic routes and implementing some ajax calls and stuff, sure. Will they know what's going on under the hood though? Taking somebody from ground zero and teaching them enough to be able to debug problems that the hires would need to know in order to be proficient, self starting engineers.. I'm really skeptical about that being done in 8 weeks. Most of the little t…
No they will not be software craftsman in 12 weeks, but they will know how to take their own idea and make it into a Rails app. Pretty powerful stuff for not knowing how code on Day 1.
"Most of the little tricks and crap I've learned over the years have been through trial and error, and working on many different projects."
This quote represents what the students are learning at Code Academy - (http://codeacademy.org)