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Re:Udacity Raises $105M Series D, Bringing Valuation to $1B on Thursday November 12, 2015 @11:59AM (#10554355)
we put a lot of effort into the android course but realized online education is lacking depth. you can take intro courses in 20 different subjects on lynda, udemy, udacity and treehouse. we want to be the place to learn everything there is to know about building iOS apps.
Re:A Complete iOS 8 Course with Swift on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @02:05PM (#8297981)
Absolute beginners to coding and people experienced technologies other than iOS.
Re:A Complete iOS 8 Course with Swift on Wednesday September 10, 2014 @02:05PM (#8297971)
We always learn CS fundamental in the context of building real apps, so you'll always be in the nitty gritty of the SDK. You just won't struggle with the fundamental concepts.
Re:Complete iOS7 Course for free on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @08:12AM (#8196893)
There is no $500/month price tag. The course is completely free.
Re:Complete iOS7 Course for free on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @08:11AM (#8196890)
yes it is.
Re:Complete iOS7 Course for free on Tuesday August 19, 2014 @08:10AM (#8196884)
http://bitfountain.io/course/the-complete-ios-game-course-bu...
Re:The Myth of Sisyphus on Saturday March 02, 2013 @09:40PM (#5312238)
Whether an open source project, struggling with a startup, or leading a profitable corporate giant, you need to pick up and do it again tomorrow no matter how good your vacation is.
Re:Ask HN: Best intro to Photoshop on Thursday February 14, 2013 @10:09AM (#5219732)
Good idea with downloading the psd files.

Ask HN: Best intro to Photoshop

Posted by nicholjs on Thursday February 14, 2013 @08:55AM
from the ask-hn dept.

A few days ago I posted an Ask HN thread on independently learning design. The responses gave me enough direction to know the theoretical books, blogs, and sites to look through. And the commenters stressed that I need to pick up my own project. That's refreshing since I learned how to code in the same way.I am starting to recreate designs that I like in Photoshop. Are there any tutorials,...

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Re:Ask HN: Independently learning design? on Sunday February 10, 2013 @08:37PM (#5198815)
HackDesign looks awesome!
Re:Ask HN: Independently learning design? on Sunday February 10, 2013 @08:20PM (#5198768)
Thanks for the advice.

On Stack Overflow: I understand that design is a different ballgame than code. However, a Q&A site geared towards helping with the tools of the trade (photoshop, illustrator) might be useful, right?

Re:Ask HN: Independently learning design? on Sunday February 10, 2013 @08:18PM (#5198756)
Amazing tips. Thanks a lot. And I can totally sympathize with having a project to learn. That's how I learned to code, and that's how I teach students. Good to hear that design can be done in the same philosophy.
Re:Ask HN: Independently learning design? on Sunday February 10, 2013 @08:16PM (#5198747)
That post was amazing. Even the related ones he wrote on Backbone.js and Node.js are worth going through.

Ask HN: Independently learning design?

Posted by nicholjs on Sunday February 10, 2013 @05:58PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm a self-taught programmer (iOS and some back end web). Here on hacker news and also on other forums and startup news sites, I always see information on learning to code. The standard routes are codeacademy, certain recommended books, types of projects to get started out on, etc. As recent as yesterday I saw a post on properly learning javascript. It was inspiring, but more so, it went in to...

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Re:Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients? on Saturday February 09, 2013 @10:30AM (#5192759)
I signed up a few days ago. Waiting on a reply.
Re:Ask HN: how do mobile developers find clients? on Saturday February 09, 2013 @10:30AM (#5192757)
Hey Curll, send me an email and I'll pass you along our work. [email protected]

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