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CodeAcademy is totally awesome. I'm the instructor for Hungry Academy and an advisor for Code Academy (http://codeacademy.org/staff http://codeacademy.org/staff
by j3 15y ago
CodeAcademy is totally awesome. I'm the instructor for Hungry Academy and an advisor for Code Academy (http://codeacademy.org/staff http://codeacademy.org/staff).
CA is an awesome program where you can get a great start and be independent. HA is a larger scale (20 weeks), you're paid during the program, then expected to join the engineering team full time. You're not guaranteed a job, but if you aren't ready for the team then I haven't done my job.
I think the programs serve a slightly different audience and the community is better off having BOTH.
- scarmig 15y agoIs Hungry Academy effectively an internship program that offers a guarantee of some dedicated training time instead of the intern being thrown to the wolves?
- j3 15y agoI wouldn't say internship, because to me that means "some learning, some stapling / paper folding." Our dream is that this program is "better than college." There are people out there that want to do what we do, we want them, so we need to help them build the skills to do it.
- encoderer 15y agoI like this a lot because it respects software engineering as a craft, best taught by craftsmen in a real world environment. I hope non-engineers that you accept will eventually gain a solid foundation of algorithms, maths, notations, etc. But I've always believed that a setting like the one you seem to have created here is the right alchemy for building successful engineers.
- Croaky 15y agoI've been thinking a lot about internships versus apprenticeship: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/14216183124/internship-or-apprenticeship http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/14216183124/internship-or-... I'd say Hungry Academy is definitely an apprenticeship.