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More like an MBA. We really wanted to help out the non-technical folks on a technical team who are trying really hard to grok what we're saying. It really hit h

More like an MBA. We really wanted to help out the non-technical folks on a technical team who are trying really hard to grok what we're saying. It really hit home when my co-host Venkat went to a meetup in and found people who wanted to go to dev bootcamps – not to become developers – but just to be able to share the language. We're hoping to be sort of like the Lonely Planet for non-technical founders, designers, product managers, and so on. Although that said, my sixty year old mother is currently learning to code herself. So I'm not sure what to expect. The wider the audience the better, but to ask better, more targeted questions we need to assume a certain level of knowledge.

kelukelugames 11y ago
>but just to be able to share the language. This is a major pet peeve. We are very bad at teaching computer programming without using jargon--we don't even notice it.
- joshdotsmith 11y ago
  This is true in the Army, too. I'm at a fairly technical school for Army Signal Officers right now and it's compounded even further. To top it off, I'm a sponsor for a Saudi Arabian student. All too often he'll get a ton of undefined acronyms thrown at him that he's never heard before. I have to imagine he feels a lot like a biz dev guy or gal working at their first startup (if not worse).