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brandonpassley

Re:Ask HN: Can anyone really learn iOS in 8 weeks? on Friday December 21, 2012 @12:24PM (#4953562)
Ah. I was trying not to make it come off as an ad. I am really, really curious what everyone thinks. It's also interesting to hear this perspective. I think I get your point. I'm assuming you are a web developer :D

Ask HN: Can anyone really learn iOS in 8 weeks?

People continue to be in disbelief when I tell them we took five amazing people who have little to no experience with code and helped them become employable iOS developers in 8 weeks during our pilot program this past fall at the Mobile Makers Academy (http://mobilemakers.co)I've had this conversation with so many people and the feedback is typically "iOS is so much harder than Ruby on Rails,...

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