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I find it a bit weird that you have shifted from iOS to Rails given: 1) There is an established rails bootcamp in the area (Dev Bootcamp) while there are very f

by slykat 14y ago

I find it a bit weird that you have shifted from iOS to Rails given: 1) There is an established rails bootcamp in the area (Dev Bootcamp) while there are very few iOS bootcamps anywhere 2) Before yesterday, the website was taking applications for iOS classes 3) The only batch of students you've had go through your program were iOS students and haven't been placed yet Makes it a bit hard to judge the quality of the program since you've wiped the slate clean by changing technologies before your first batch has finished. It's a bit hard to gauge your student comments since they were trained on different technologies and haven't even been placed yet.

CesareBorgia 14y ago
The demand for both Rails and iOS devs in SF is huge, the market is nowhere near saturated. It's really the opposite: as Devbootcamp gains success, the applicant and recruiting company pools grow larger. We taught Ruby/Rails for the first 3 weeks of the current iOS course; several of our alumni directly speak to their experiences learning Rails in their testimonials. That said, the most important (and hardest) concepts to learn through these programs are the fundamental skills of software development (how to model a real-world problem, how to design a solution, how to debug...). Those core, essential skills are common to both Rails and iOS, as well as any other software development work.