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by darrellsilver 13y ago
I'm sorry to hear you couldn't find a model to make it work – would love to learn more! You can email me directly darrell@thinkful.com
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
In our experience, and with companies that have large teams of teachers training is the most important piece of all this. Pointing out freelancer rates in major cities is also not representative: Lower cost of living cities have lower marke
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
This is awesome. What's funny to me, and this is reflected in the comments here, is that people don't think this kind of service can scale. That is completely wrong. Human-powered backends to internet services should not be nearly as scary
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
I agree in the principle you're after (independence beats dependent on someone else) but not the method. Quick response rates help people feel not alone . And that's really really important because alone is too close to helpless is too clo
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Exactly!
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Agreed. And that's a fair point – "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing". However, coding knowledge doesn't suffer from this flaw... just look at the tech wishlist companies maintain. The list of projects they wish their engineers would
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Agreed. But note that it's not all "noobs" helping "noobs"... there's someone who knows chiming in with directional support along the way. That's a big difference. Coursera tries "peer learning"... commonly referred to in the forums as "the
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Intriguing! What's the tech under the hood?
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
Neat idea! We'll be following along as we've found students do better with a bit more structure than this program provides, but there are so many ways of learning it may work well. What I like most is the personal help. It promises not just
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The rise of the "/Developer" — boosting your career with code(blog.thinkful.com)
26 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|10 comments
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
How do you define "alone"? What I've found is that learning alone is a very high percentage of overall time spent, but being alone, meaning relying solely on google / stack exchange, is vastly more difficult than having a conversation wit
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The future of becoming a job-ready engineer(pandodaily.com)
18 points by darrellsilver 13y ago|2 comments
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by darrellsilver 13y ago
This is so great! We find our students want help with only a small number of large concepts as they learn. Mostly, these are the basics of programming (conditionals, loops, control flow). This looks like a great tool! (The other main area s
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
In our experience, the best way to learn how to interview is to talk with hiring managers. The 2nd best way is to pretend you are one. We SWEAR by this book: Who ( http://www.amazon.com/Who-The-A-Method-Hiring/dp/1400158389 ) Skip to chapte
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
Please elaborate. Unless "load of crap" fully articulates your argument. If so, thanks for the feedback.
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
We use a of free and paid – there's so much great stuff out there we generally find the value is in the filtering. That There's some great CodeSchool work that we use and they're a paid source. The projects and curriculum are all our own de
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
Pacing is incredibly important to motivation. The thing is, there's no single answer. Even in traditional, full-time, in person classrooms where everyone puts in the same class hours, natural ability, different skills at the beginning and b
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
"Have a real project you want to build" and "You have to throw yourself in or you will fail." are spot on. At Thinkful ( http://thinkful.com/ ) our students spend more than half their time on projects they start from scratch, using real too
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
"Forget Codecademy" <- This isn't so simple. You've gotta get started somewhere, and a safe place, in your browser, that doesn't require arduous setup ain't too shabby. As Zack points out, there's a true difference between someone who "
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
I kid you not: While you don't know me from Random Startup Dude, this is exactly what we do at Thinkful. Check us out: http://www.thinkful.com/ or even email me directly: darrell at thinkful.com
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
Definitely – This is exactly what we're seeing. I think people are more open to feedback when working with Thinkful because we're educators not recruiters.
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
Good question. I don't know off hand, but will keep an eye out as we work with more UK employers. If you want to follow up email me at darrell [at] thinkful.com.
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
I think we see more engagement from hirers (both the hiring manager and potential colleagues) because we're coming at the process as educators. I've certainly seen some share of "not a fit", but that rate goes down once there's an interview
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
Thanks for the insight. I'd definitely love to learn more. Frankly, I'd like to hear a thorough challenge to my central thesis in this essay that "The recruiter has little incentive to share that feedback with candidates other than goodwill
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
Agreed. We hear this a lot. Maybe I should revise the post to be more clear on this point... everyone wants to give this feedback, but it's an HR minefield.
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
Exactly! They wish there was a way to do it, but know doing so would open a huge can of worms. Hirers want nothing more than increase the quality of candidates they interview, which is why providing a safe way to gather this feedback is s
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The hidden beauty of recruiting(blog.thinkful.com)
18 points by darrellsilver 14y ago|30 comments
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
The key paragraph comes toward the end: Reid also said binational gay couples should be allowed the same family preference privileges under the bill that heterosexual couples would receive, although this might make passage more difficult i
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How immigration reform is the latest battle for gay rights(rollcall.com)
1 points by darrellsilver 14y ago|1 comments
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by darrellsilver 14y ago
Definitely agree with some of that. Telling people who "don't know otherwise better" to do most anything is dangerous, let alone something as extraordinary as changing their career. My point is: For many, the most dangerous attitude to have

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