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December 3, 2012 09:07 pm GMT
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How Dev Bootcamp Is Transforming Education To Focus On Extreme Employability
Six months ago, Jessie Young, 26, was working as a marketing manager at Get Satisfaction - a hip, well-known startup. She loved her job. She loved the company. Its just that the developers seemed to be at the heart of company's progress. To her, nothing seemed quite as exciting as working on the actual product.Jessie, like many others these days, was overcome with the desire to learn to code. But she didnt want to dabble. She had already tried, unsuccessfully, to teach herself a little Rails and Javascript, and wanted to get off the sidelines.But less than three months later, she was working as an apprentice at the also hip company thoughtbot -- this time as a software developer.What happened in those three months?Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/5sxf00-6-Cs/
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