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Re:Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby by tibbon on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @10:07AM (#3377692)
Still sounds better than dumping 4 years and $160K on a normal degree and then finding no jobs afterward.

I've got a friend now who is a cook in a kitchen. I've been trying to convince him to learn Ruby. This is a killer thing for him. He's making like $12/hr now. Even a "bad" paying programming gig will surely beat that.

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Re:Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby by sunchild on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @10:44AM (#3377833)
You're comparing an intensive 5 month apprenticeship to getting a university CS degree. My personal view is that neither will prepare you for a job as well as just building stuff in your free time.
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