Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby

Re:Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby by scarmig on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:16AM (#3377958)

Is Hungry Academy effectively an internship program that offers a guarantee of some dedicated training time instead of the intern being thrown to the wolves?

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Re:Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby by j3 on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @11:50AM (#3378102)

I wouldn't say internship, because to me that means "some learning, some stapling / paper folding."

Our dream is that this program is "better than college." There are people out there that want to do what we do, we want them, so we need to help them build the skills to do it.

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Re:Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby by encoderer on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @02:13PM (#3378682)

I like this a lot because it respects software engineering as a craft, best taught by craftsmen in a real world environment.

I hope non-engineers that you accept will eventually gain a solid foundation of algorithms, maths, notations, etc. But I've always believed that a setting like the one you seem to have created here is the right alchemy for building successful engineers.

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Re:Hungry Academy - get paid to learn Ruby by Croaky on Thursday December 22, 2011 @08:55AM (#3381500)

I've been thinking a lot about internships versus apprenticeship:

http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/14216183124/internship-or-...

I'd say Hungry Academy is definitely an apprenticeship.

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