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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

If you can pick up the rudiments of Spanish or French in a couple of weeks, how hard could it be to get started with Ruby On Rails? He lost a bet to me and owed me some money and I told him, 'hey, go teach yourself Ruby On Rails. That led to a post on Hacker News offering to teach people how to develop in Ruby.

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Robots as Tools, Toys and Teachers

SiliconHills

By SUSAN LAHEY Reporter with Silicon Hills News You too, can make your own robot, using Artoo, a micro-framework for robotics using the programming language Ruby. Mike Ford, a software engineer at Trion Worlds, spoke Monday night to a group of around 30 people at Austin RB meetup at Capital Factory about the Artoo technology [.]

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Verified Data Will Prevent “Fake It Til You Make It”

Hunter Walker

A software engineer who claims proficiency in Ruby might display a github score. Or a hiring manager may run a stack of resumes through some candidate eval software which pulls all sorts of data from github, stack overlflow, etc in order to try and verify that an individual has at least been publicly active in an area.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

And yet the number of software developers in NYC who work at startups has probably grown tenfold in the last eight years, leading me to ask the question of whether or not putting code in the classroom will make the biggest impact on innovation in our community. Don''t get me wrong--I think software literacy is extremely important.

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In Boston, a School to Learn How to Work at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

They have all the needs of any business - including sales, marketing, product development and design - to go along with all of those software engineers. Boston Startup School was announced at an event in February called Ruby Riot. But there is more to it than that. Startups are businesses. 6 Weeks of Complete Immersion.

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[Infographic] Silicon Valley Engineering Salaries In 2012

YoungUpstarts

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Boston Tech Community – August 2012

Rob Go

Ruby specialists. Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Terrible Labs – Ruby on Rails, Web and Mobile. Entrepreneurial Development Firms. Bocoup - JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3. Thoughtbot - Web application development and design. FreshTilledSoil - User Interface Design.

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