A free full-time 7-week coding course in London
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A free full-time 7-week coding course in London
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#2This is a course I am involved in, but I am hoping a free course of this kind is unusual enough to be of interest to Hacker News readers.
Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London
#3Who is funding this project? Hard to believe anyone would run a free 7-week course because they like to teach.
This is similar to a course taught by General Assembly here in the US, but that course costs $11,500.
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#4Is it an entry-level course? Which are the skills that will be learned?
Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London
#5Is it an entry-level course? Which are the skills that will be learned?
It is entry level. Primarily, it's going to be JavaScript--both backend (node) and frontend, plus HTML, CSS, and Git.
Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London
#6This is a course I am involved in, but I am hoping a free course of this kind is unusual enough to be of interest to Hacker News readers.
It is, but this is a little light on information.
The course: What's the ciriculum. What's the structure. Will it be focused on building a project? Is this one-on-one instruction, classroom based, mentorship based, mostly self taught? What's the target/prerequisite level of student experience?
The Free: How is it free? Donors? Volunteers? Is this the pilot for a for profit project?
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#7Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London
#8This is a course I am involved in, but I am hoping a free course of this kind is unusual enough to be of interest to Hacker News readers.
It is, but this is a little light on information. The course : What's the ciriculum. What's the structure. Will it be focused on building a project? Is this one-on-one instruction, classroom based, mentorship based, mostly self taught? What's the target/prerequisite level of student experience? The Free : How is it free? Donors? Volunteers? Is this the pilot for a for profit project?
Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London
#9Who is funding this project? Hard to believe anyone would run a free 7-week course because they like to teach. This is similar to a course taught by General Assembly here in the US, but that course costs $11,500.
We have a bit of funding from Collective, which is a project in Camden Town offering free workspace and support to creative startups, which is in turn funded by the Mayor of London.
I am not sure that what we are doing is exactly comparable to an offering like General Assembly, which is a very well-structured course and has many links with industry. What we are doing is much more seat of the pants. We are grabbing learning resources off the web and stitching them together into a patchwork of useful learning exercises and projects and holding it all together with daily seminars, paired programming and code reviews. We hope some of our students will be ready to apply for membership of Collective when they finish the course and can bring new creative ideas and energy to Camden Town.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is entry level. Primarily, it's going to be JavaScript--both backend (node) and frontend, plus HTML, CSS, and Git.
Open to non-UK citizens?
We will certainly consider applicants from overseas. We have a Russian, a Greek and an Argentinian on the current course. Although it is mainly for London residents, we might make exceptions--especially if you are interested in setting up similar courses wherever you come from.