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As a business, this makes perfect sense to me. San Francisco is the city that taught the world you make more money selling pickaxes and denim than from digging
by raganwald 13y ago
As a business, this makes perfect sense to me. San Francisco is the city that taught the world you make more money selling pickaxes and denim than from digging for gold.
- mattangriffel 13y agoI taught myself how to code on my own and realized that there are no good resources out there that provide a clear path for beginners. Yes, and the fact that I get to empower other people to build something they want to build is a bonus )
- raganwald 13y agoIt may be true that many who buy pickaxes won't find gold, but if you don't buy a pickaxe or make your own (as you did), you definitely aren't going to find gold! Besides, the canonical Ruby book is the "Pickaxe Book." What other metaphor fits?
- eriktrautman 13y agoI'm totally with you on this and I'm trying to fix that issue with an open source curriculum for aspiring developers at https://github.com/theodinproject/curriculum https://github.com/theodinproject/curriculum that charts a path through existing content and encourages collaboration on projects. It's still quite preliminary but some students are already finding value with it. Hopefully it's the kind of thing you wish you'd had when you got started!