At my recent employer, Thetus, I was involved in interviewing three students from Epicodus, which does something similar to the organizations you've mentioned. We ended up hiring all three, and I'd say two of them were junior/entry level, while the third was probably closer to intern level competency; none of them had any prior programming experience before starting the Epicodus program. There seemed to be a very real focus on front-end web site technologies, while server side side is covered only very lightly. Probably the largest downside I saw was that there were a lot of concepts (aka, common sense stuff you learn from doing) that they just didn't have; even if they knew the process for doing something, they didn't know why to do it that way.
Epicodus is a bit different from the others mentioned, as it is a four month course, 40 hours per week, for ~$3400. They mainly pair-program, with some larger scrum-style teams towards the end. I'm biased against fast-track courses, but if you're making the choice to use one, this is one of the better ones I've seen. ~ Loki ᐧ On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Eric Garner <[email protected]> wrote: > they might think about something like this: > > > https://www.edx.org/course/mitx/mitx-6-00-1x-introduction-computer-2841#.VBtBgPldXvw > > I took the course 2 years ago as a way to bootstrap myself into python. > the course uses python to teach all the underlying fundamentals of > programming and it does a good job of it. more importantly, its FREE. > > > On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:47 PM, Greg Peek <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A relative of mine is thinking of getting into web development / >> programming. College degree, but no experience at all with programming. >> >> I'm looking for input on PDX Code Guild, Code Oregon / Team Treehouse, >> and other local fast-track programming courses. >> >> PDX Code Guild says: >> "You will learn Python, Django, JavaScript, Jquery, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, how >> to think like a programmer and important developer practices like agile, >> source control (git), testing, and debugging." >> >> In 16 weeks of 4 hours a night. >> >> Seems to me like a lot to learn in that time frame. Too good to be true? >> >> Thanks, >> Greg >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber >> > > > > -- > --Eric > _________________________________________ > Eric Garner > > _______________________________________________ > dorkbotpdx-blabber mailing list > [email protected] > http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/dorkbotpdx-blabber >
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