Summary: Panel Jeff Casimir (Jumpstart Lab Hungry Academy) Avdi Grimm (twitter github blog book) Charles Max Wood (twitter github Teach Me To Code Rails Summer Camp) James Edward Gray (blog twitter github) Josh Susser (twitter github blog) Discussion Steve Klabnik Experts frequently forget the novice perspective Pragmatic Thinking and Learning the Dreyfus Model Teaching is a skill Teaching is about empathy "Why don't you move your legs faster?!" Open yourself up to Feedback Live teaching can (to a certain extent) never be replaced A book cannot anticipate every learning direction Jumpstart Lab Hungry Academy You can teach someone everything they'd learn in a decent Computer Science program in 6 months. Computer Science should prepare you for what you'll specialize in when you get out into the workforce. Assembler Pareto's Principle Matt Yoho CodeNow Hungry Academy application process LSAT How do people respond to coaching? The class started March 6 They're not working on commercial projects. Students get paid to be at Hungry Academy 16 of 24 were identified as non-developers 6 of 24 have a traditional Computer Science background Be deliberate about how you structure your teams The country is transitioning to an information economy What does it take to get people from the low income areas to something like Hungry Academy? We need an ignition for minorities to get into programming Maslow's Hierarchy RailsBridge A small group over a long time rather than a large group over a short time. LAYC LivingSocial CodeAcademy HackerSchool DevBootcamp Ruby Ruby on Rails Donors Choose BigData iPad Javascript frontends What are the prerequisites for Hungry Academy? You have to have drive Diversity DRb Picks The Rails View (Jeff) Rails Recipes 3rd edition (James) Tmux book (James) Deploying with JRuby - Beta (James) ZeFrank (Josh) Dr Nic's Scrolls (Josh) Therapeutic Massage (Josh) Parallels Workstation (Avdi) Air Deflector (Chuck) Shock Mount (Chuck) guard (Chuck) Coast (Chuck) Meteor (Jeff) Transcript CHUCK: Does it involve lightning and a brain transplant? *laughter* JAMES: Yes! JOSH: No. But it does involve a fight ***. CHUCK: [This podcast is sponsored by New Relic. To track and optimize your application’s performance, to go rubygogues.com/newrelic] [This podcast is also sponsored by railsthemes.com. Have an app your mother could love? Check our railstheme.com. They’re also giving out some pretty cool swag at RailsConf. So find them, get some and thank them for sponsoring Ruby Rogues.] Hey everybody and welcome Episode 50 of the Ruby Rogue podcast. That’s right, we’ve done 50 of this. This week on our panel, we have Avdi Grimm. AVDI: Hello, hello. CHUCK: We also have James Edward Gray. JAMES: Hey everybody. CHUCK: Josh Susser. JOSH: Good morning. CHUCK: And I’m Charles Max Wood from teachmethecode.com. We also have a guest Rogue, that’s Jeff Casimir. JEFF: Hello. CHUCK: Jeff do you want to introduce yourself really quickly for the people who don’t know who you are? JEFF: Sure, my name is Jeff Casimir. I’m from DC. Right now I‘m the lead instructor of Hungry Academy. I also run a small training company called Jumpstart Lab. Run around the word teaching Ruby on Rails classes. CHUCK: Cool. JAMES: You don’t take a plane? JEFF: Ah you know, occasionally, but you got to stay in shape so. CHUCK: I was talking to Steve Klabnik who’s also been on the show incidentally and I didn’t know that he is working for you so... JEFF: Yeah, Steve is working on teaching specially, co-teaching some of the larger classes, so it’s really nice to have two teachers in the room. Get a little bit more of a dialogue. Also, I love that Steve knows a lot more than I do about pretty much everything.
