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Hackbright Academy Turns Women Into Developers In 10 Weeks

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Re: Hackbright Academy Turns Women Into Developers In 10 Weeks

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Post by supervacuo »

SideburnsOfDoom wrote: post #61
eLobato wrote: post #30

Will sound like an asshole to many people, but: Hackbright Academy Turns Men Into Developers In 10 Weeks Hackbright Academy Turns Blacks Into Developers In 10 Weeks Hackbright Academy Turns Whites Into Developers In 10 Weeks Do we really need MORE discrimination? If I go ahead and try to join in, they will say "sorry, no men accepted"? That sounds equally as bad to me as "sorry, no woman accepted" or "sorry, no latin…

To me "Turns Women Into Developers" is an offensive phrase, as your other variations highlight - it implies that "Women" and "developers" are categories that don't overlap. However, it seems to be techcrunch's poor choice of words, not Hackbright academy's.

It makes me so, so happy that someone else picked up on this.

Re: Hackbright Academy Turns Women Into Developers In 10 Weeks

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Post by sliverstorm »

smsm42 wrote: post #76
runarb wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Agree. With Sams all you need is about an hour, and you could know all this: "Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 10 Minutes" - http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourself-Minutes-Edition/dp... "Sams Teach Yourself PHP in 10 Minutes" - http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourself-PHP-Minutes/dp/067... "Sams Teach Yourself UNIX in 10 Minutes" - http://www.amazon.com/Sams-Teach-Yourself-Minutes-Yourself/d... "Sams Teach Yourself AJA…

They also have the same with "24 hours"... For the slow readers among us I guess. Given the 10-minute book on PHP has 264 pages, it's about 26 pages per minute, or a little more than 2 seconds per page, not counting the time it takes to turn the pages. One must be really quick.

Come now, reading the book doesn't teach you PHP- buying it does!

Re: Hackbright Academy Turns Women Into Developers In 10 Weeks

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Post by jerrya »

smsm42 wrote: post #77
jerrya wrote: post #28

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Well, I think I am comparing it to any company selling any product, of which very few seem allowed to discriminate on the basis of sex.

Some definitely are. I don't think there are many male waiters in Hooters, are there?

That's employment discrimination, not discrimination of who your customers are. The case of Hooters vs. the EEOC is discussed here: http://blogs.findlaw.com/free_enterprise/2009/04/can-men-be-...

Perhaps a better comparison would be to women only gyms. If you google "are women only gyms legal" you'll come up with a slew of articles suggesting women only gyms are probably not legal, up until the various state legislatures pass specific laws making them legal.

I am not a lawyer, I have no good idea if hackbright is operating legally or not, but I wouldn't be surprised to find what they are doing is not legal.

Re: Hackbright Academy Turns Women Into Developers In 10 Weeks

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Post by shurane »

meaty wrote: post #48
bradleyjg wrote: post #35

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Bootcamp isn't about skills, it's about breaking down the civilian mentality and then building back up a military one. For those destined to be more than cannon fodder, the skills training comes in advanced courses that last months or occasionally years (e.g. nuclear sub courses).

Yes like NEETS as a concrete example which is very very good: http://jacquesricher.com/NEETS/

Looks promising! Thanks. Any other learning material from the Military?

Re: Hackbright Academy Turns Women Into Developers In 10 Weeks

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Post by smsm42 »

sliverstorm wrote: post #82
smsm42 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They also have the same with "24 hours"... For the slow readers among us I guess. Given the 10-minute book on PHP has 264 pages, it's about 26 pages per minute, or a little more than 2 seconds per page, not counting the time it takes to turn the pages. One must be really quick.

Come now, reading the book doesn't teach you PHP- buying it does!

Well, I concede buying this book probably will teach one something... but I doubt it'd be PHP.
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