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I used General Assembly to learn frontend web development about 5 years ago. It was a positive experience, the two types of people I saw succeed were 1. people
by sputknick 2y ago
I used General Assembly to learn frontend web development about 5 years ago. It was a positive experience, the two types of people I saw succeed were
1. people with some kind of tech background already and
2. people who were really smart but not technically oriented (we had 4 former professional artists and musicians in my cohort, one of whom was a Princeton undergrad).
The people who failed were people who had no curiosity to genuinely grow their knowledge and were just there because they wanted to check a box before getting a better paying job.
- underlipton 2y agoI've found that my curiosity drops commensurate with my savings (and therefore the chance I'm going to get kicked out of my home, my belongings repossessed, and find food unaffordable). If people are so insecure that this opportunity to retrain an entire workforce was squandered - the money was there, the desire was there, the expertise was there - it comes off to me as more of a, "If you owe the bank $1 billion...", sort of problem, for society.