App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
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App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
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Re: App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
#2I wish I was able to take 9 weeks off. This looks awesome.
Re: App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
#3I wish I was able to take 9 weeks off. This looks awesome.
We've been thinking about how to make some of the curriculum available online as well. If you're interested, sign up for our mailing list and we'll keep you updated.
That said, we believe that you will benefit significantly from the class experience, so do join us if possible.
Re: App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
#4This is an awesome opportunity!
Re: App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
#5This is great. Especially with services like Parse out there, I could see how a sufficiently motivated/creative person could start from zero programming experience and become a skilled iOS developer in the course of a summer.
Re: App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
#6Looks interesting, but there are a few lingering questions remain:
1) Where will the academy be located at? Do you already have the logistics covered? If so, could you share some of these details? (Location/Photos of area/etc)
2) You mention that the Summer program is free to build up excitement for the fall session, but later you mention you will try to help find the developer a position. Are you acting as a recruiter, taking a % of the first year salary?
3) Could you go over in a little more detail the schedule of the class? You mention starting in ruby and moving over to Objective C and iOS, but don't really delve any deeper. You mention that "No programming experience [is] required", so I'd imagine there would be quite a few weeks of basic stuff.
Re: App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
#7I wish I was able to take 9 weeks off. This looks awesome.
We've been thinking about how to make some of the curriculum available online as well. If you're interested, sign up for our mailing list and we'll keep you updated. That said, we believe that you will benefit significantly from the class experience, so do join us if possible.
That would be so awesome for people not located anywhere near SF (like me). Hopefully this happens!
Re: App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
#8This looks so cool! I can't wait to sign up.
Re: App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
#9I wish I was able to take 9 weeks off. This looks awesome.
We've been thinking about how to make some of the curriculum available online as well. If you're interested, sign up for our mailing list and we'll keep you updated. That said, we believe that you will benefit significantly from the class experience, so do join us if possible.
Thanks! I'd definitely be interested in the online curriculum. Especially since I'm in Boston and working full time.
Re: App Academy: Free nine week iOS course
#10Looks interesting, but there are a few lingering questions remain: 1) Where will the academy be located at? Do you already have the logistics covered? If so, could you share some of these details? (Location/Photos of area/etc) 2) You mention that the Summer program is free to build up excitement for the fall session, but later you mention you will try to help find the developer a position. Are you acting as a recruit…
Hey! Great questions all!
1) We haven’t picked a place yet; but we’re talking to places in East Bay. The likeliest location we’ve seen is in downtown Berkeley off BART.
2) We’re trying to do both. If we place the student at a company we’ve partnered with, we’d collect a fee from that company. But the long-term success of the program is going to be measured by the percentage of students who are ready for and get jobs afterward. We’d want our students to talk to all companies, not just ones we’ve partnered with.
3) We do have a curriculum planned and are running a small trial class in advance of the summer session. We’ll have students working on Ruby basics in advance of the course, and we’ll run a web-based kickoff class to help them prep a few weeks before the official start date. In addition to that, we’ve budgeted three weeks of class time with Ruby and Obj-C to get them up-to-speed with programming fundamentals. We’ve based that timing off of other programs. We’ll jump into iOS then.