Interesting. A friend of mine is planning on switching careers and is looking into these hack/code schools. I told him I couldn't give any opinion one way or th

Interesting. A friend of mine is planning on switching careers and is looking into these hack/code schools. I told him I couldn't give any opinion one way or the other because I don't know how much experience the students have before taking these classes, and I also didn't know what the success rate was for students after they finished these programs. So anyway, can you elaborate on your programming experience before you took the course? And how much of your free time have you devoted to learning programming before, during, and after the program?