Finding New Pastures: Big Nerd Ranch's Next Chapter

Re:Finding New Pastures: Big Nerd Ranch's Next Chapter by natch on Saturday June 15, 2024 @05:52PM (#40692962)

Did I miss the why? Or was it not stated?

Closest I see is that “the landscape of tech education has evolved.” I agree but it would be interesting to hear more of their take.

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Re:Finding New Pastures: Big Nerd Ranch's Next Chapter by downrightmike on Saturday June 15, 2024 @06:32PM (#40693193)

Bootcamps don't have anywhere near the quality employers want and they all get lumped together. Its worth less that the University of Phoenix.

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Re:Finding New Pastures: Big Nerd Ranch's Next Chapter by wordToDaBird on Saturday June 15, 2024 @08:06PM (#40693624)

They used to be a wonderful place for a company that needs to upskill their employees on a tech stack quickly.

But, those books though. There books seduced my soul to the depth of knowledge and intricate nature to the mobile ecosystem.

I legitimately can’t think of books that were better on mobile.

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Re:Finding New Pastures: Big Nerd Ranch's Next Chapter by musicale on Saturday June 15, 2024 @10:26PM (#40694252)

Agreed - their books were/are inspiring. I think we need books more than ever for iOS and macOS since Apple's documentation doesn't seem to be as good as it used to be.

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Re:Finding New Pastures: Big Nerd Ranch's Next Chapter by dlachausse on Sunday June 16, 2024 @10:07AM (#40697183)

It seems that Apple intends people to mostly use WWDC videos to learn their newest tech.

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Re:Finding New Pastures: Big Nerd Ranch's Next Chapter by sircastor on Saturday June 15, 2024 @09:57PM (#40694126)

Big Nerd Ranch was running boot camps long before the crop of web dev camps that came up in the last little while. It really was a way you could get into Mac OS X and iOS dev early on. Beyond that, it felt like the best way was to have already been an OpenStep developer.

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