At a time when people are lining up to get accepted by a programming bootcamp, Jeff Casimir decided to start one that is non-profit. But he doesn’t like the term bootcamp — he prefers “program.” We talk about why he decided to make the Turing School non-profit, the complications of quantifying students’ skills, and how Turing School approaches its programming curriculum.
Show Links
- Sitepoint (sponsor)
- Visual Studio
- Eclipse
- Quick sort
- Merge sort
- Bubble sort
- Automated testing
- Source Control
- FizzBuzz
- EmberJS
- front-end developer
- Object Design
- Ruby
- APIs
- Github
- Turing School
- Hungry Academy
- Teach for America
Shoutouts
- My Bootcamp Experience (Saron)
- Apply Refurbished (Jeff)
- RubyMine (Jeff)
- Self.Conference (Jeff)
- Belkin Backpack (Saron)
- Jumpstart Lab (Saron)
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