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Everything about this post is highly dubious, especially all the numbers involved. And then this: We do not teach for loops and while loops. (Recursion is th

Everything about this post is highly dubious, especially all the numbers involved. And then this: We do not teach for loops and while loops. (Recursion is the only loop we use)  ...okay. Maybe that's a joke, but look at that Github account! Your typical 18 year old CS freshman could throw together a more impressive set of code than this "charity" that has the wherewithal to pay out 25,000 (or 24,000) times 20 dollars and landed 14 of said students "full stack" positions. My shit company would drop all 14 of their resumes right in the garbage. Where are they getting hired? And who in hell would spend their 401k on something like that? No one. Not the greatest fool in the world. Especially not a fool who managed to gain all of 41 Twitter follows in the process. ...just a plea for a minimum of skepticism. Hate to see a rather obvious swindle fool people.

yjhoney 8y ago
Thanks for the healthy dose of skepticism. We moved away from Github (their closed source policy always seemed fishy to me) and started hosting our own gitlab instance instead. Some products our students are building: llip.io and c0d3.com. The students working on llip.io built an android/ios react-native app as well as a webapp. Everyone working on that project got a job, so there is no development on that anymore. The remaining group of students is working on c0d3.com and running beta on it. Currently they volunteer at the library with FCC on Saturdays to get more people using it to improve it. If you want to meet them, show up for the Saturday meetups! https://www.meetup.com/Free-Code-Camp-SF/events/qzddrmyxpbgc/ https://www.meetup.com/Free-Code-Camp-SF/events/qzddrmyxpbgc... I do empathize with your concern though.
- rhacker 8y ago
  It's awesome what you're doing. Keep it up. I wanted to do something like that a long time ago but never had the willpower. Keep in mind that HN comments are always going to be discouraging. I find the comments to be 80% discouraging, stop what you're doing, and you suck compared to X. Read them, but don't let it kill your flame. Then double down on the constructive posts that make up the other 20%.
  - yjhoney 8y ago
    Thank you! Aside from the name calling in the comment, it does have some merits so I took out the paragraph about donation and my contributions. Love your positivity, thank you for your encouragement.

yjhoney 8y ago

Thanks for the healthy dose of skepticism. We moved away from Github (their closed source policy always seemed fishy to me) and started hosting our own gitlab instance instead. Some products our students are building: llip.io and c0d3.com. The students working on llip.io built an android/ios react-native app as well as a webapp. Everyone working on that project got a job, so there is no development on that anymore. The remaining group of students is working on c0d3.com and running beta on it. Currently they volunteer at the library with FCC on Saturdays to get more people using it to improve it. If you want to meet them, show up for the Saturday meetups! https://www.meetup.com/Free-Code-Camp-SF/events/qzddrmyxpbgc/ https://www.meetup.com/Free-Code-Camp-SF/events/qzddrmyxpbgc... I do empathize with your concern though.

rhacker 8y ago
It's awesome what you're doing. Keep it up. I wanted to do something like that a long time ago but never had the willpower. Keep in mind that HN comments are always going to be discouraging. I find the comments to be 80% discouraging, stop what you're doing, and you suck compared to X. Read them, but don't let it kill your flame. Then double down on the constructive posts that make up the other 20%.
- yjhoney 8y ago
  Thank you! Aside from the name calling in the comment, it does have some merits so I took out the paragraph about donation and my contributions. Love your positivity, thank you for your encouragement.