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Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London

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Post by dsofer »

wyclif wrote: post #8
netcan wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

http://foundersandcoders.org/curriculum

Well spotted. This is from the current course. Much though I love them, we are dropping the Udacity courses and switching to JavaScript and node.js for the next one. Trying to teach two programming languages at once to absolute beginners is madness.

Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London

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Post by dsofer »

netcan wrote: post #6
dsofer wrote: post #2

This 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?

It is part of a larger project funded by from public sources. It is not a pilot. The June course will be the third one we have run this year. We are exploring funding from various sources. We may end up charging at some point, but the model we are trying to pursue is to keep the value/cost ratio as high as we can.

Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London

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Post by alexpogosian »

This is a very interesting project. I wouldn't qualify since I've been working as a web developer for several years. But I'd love to see something like this in my home country (Republic of Georgia).

I wonder if it's possible to do it without any teaching experience?

Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London

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Post by nailer »

dsofer wrote: post #11
wyclif wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://foundersandcoders.org/curriculum

Well spotted. This is from the current course. Much though I love them, we are dropping the Udacity courses and switching to JavaScript and node.js for the next one. Trying to teach two programming languages at once to absolute beginners is madness.

Could you link to the current curriculum on http://foundersandcoders.org/?

I know someone interested but saying "there's an HN thread with the details" doesn't sound particularly legit.

Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London

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Post by alixaxel »

dsofer wrote: post #9
paul_f wrote: post #3

Who 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 le…

This is so cool, well done!

Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London

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Post by woodylondon »

Great idea! However, have you thought about a weekend / evening version for people working, but wanting to get out and do their own thing? I would so love to do this, but work full-time in a management role and the impossible just to not work for 7 weeks. I have so many ideas, but never really coded before and struggled with self learning.

Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London

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Post by dsofer »

alexpogosian wrote: post #14

This is a very interesting project. I wouldn't qualify since I've been working as a web developer for several years. But I'd love to see something like this in my home country (Republic of Georgia). I wonder if it's possible to do it without any teaching experience?

Like you, I have no teaching experience, but have been working as a web developer and project manager for many years before taking this project on. I encourage you to give it a go. A really good way to start is to organise Coursera meetups (http://www.meetup.com/Coursera/), which is what I did last year and where I got the idea for starting "Founders & Coders".

Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London

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Post by jschuur »

paul_f wrote: post #3

Who 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.

There's a General Assembly here in London too. Their 12 week, full time web development course clocks in at £8,000 (about $13,500).

Re: A free full-time 7-week coding course in London

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Post by dsofer »

nailer wrote: post #15
dsofer wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well spotted. This is from the current course. Much though I love them, we are dropping the Udacity courses and switching to JavaScript and node.js for the next one. Trying to teach two programming languages at once to absolute beginners is madness.

Could you link to the current curriculum on http://foundersandcoders.org/ ? I know someone interested but saying "there's an HN thread with the details" doesn't sound particularly legit.

Good suggestion. Done.
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