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Drop me an e-mail if you're considering one of these, I'll happily mentor people for significantly less than that, and I'm a full-time, active, multidisciplinar

by chasing 10y ago

Drop me an e-mail if you're considering one of these, I'll happily mentor people for significantly less than that, and I'm a full-time, active, multidisciplinary coder with 20+ years experience and background in both UX and visual design. And with enough industry contacts to almost certainly find you somewhere interesting to land afterwards. I've taught classes at New York University and the School of Visual Arts and I'm almost certain I can get people spun up on the fundamentals of programming as well as any of these bootcamps. I also just enjoy that kind of one-on-one mentoring relationship. (Sounds like a shill, but maybe my bigger point is that students might be better served by finding personal mentors to help learn this stuff rather than go through these expensive mills. Many accomplished coders would probably love to help out a protege.)

iaw 10y ago
This idea is so much better than a bootcamp. Paying ~$100/hr a few times a week to chat about projects and direction with someone in industry is going to be way more effective.
- cpursley 10y ago
  Agreed. Combining the self-paced freecodecamp.com with codementor.io seems like the cheaper and more effective path.
powersjcb 10y ago
Sure solo/self-paced can work for some people. I am not one of those people. I spent a couple of months learning and working on projects in my free time. A consistent theme was getting stuck on a concept or bug and having no feedback to get past it. (Either, "give up, move on, come back to this later" or "oh, fix this one thing and its done".) I guess, I could have made the transition without an immersive program, but I'm sure my outcome would have taken more time, had a lower starting salary, and eventually more cost money. Retrospectively, there was $30k post-tax in opportunity cost of not working at a Mechanical Engineering job (bay area) for 6 months and the $22k tuition.
danielhooper 10y ago
Hey dude, if you see this, please drop me an email at danielhhooper @ gmail or reply with your email! :-)

by chasing 10y ago

iaw 10y ago

This idea is so much better than a bootcamp. Paying ~$100/hr a few times a week to chat about projects and direction with someone in industry is going to be way more effective.

cpursley 10y ago
Agreed. Combining the self-paced freecodecamp.com with codementor.io seems like the cheaper and more effective path.

powersjcb 10y ago

Sure solo/self-paced can work for some people. I am not one of those people. I spent a couple of months learning and working on projects in my free time. A consistent theme was getting stuck on a concept or bug and having no feedback to get past it. (Either, "give up, move on, come back to this later" or "oh, fix this one thing and its done".) I guess, I could have made the transition without an immersive program, but I'm sure my outcome would have taken more time, had a lower starting salary, and eventually more cost money. Retrospectively, there was $30k post-tax in opportunity cost of not working at a Mechanical Engineering job (bay area) for 6 months and the $22k tuition.

danielhooper 10y ago

Hey dude, if you see this, please drop me an email at danielhhooper @ gmail or reply with your email! :-)