jmsbrwr

If you have the time, a link to my Github account can be found in my profile and I would enjoy hearing your opinion on what I have there.

Cheers!

And I'd very much like to stay here. :P

All joking aside, the term "disrupted" needs to be disrupted.

Nice catch! Thanks, it should be fixed now.

I do mean super-lite. It is basically the persistence methods (create, update, save), finder methods (find, where) and some associations. It isn't even close to the real deal, but I learned a lot and really impressed myself.

Check it out here: http://www.brwr.org/projects

I used to live in Georgia where there is a city called Warsaw. Always found that one kind of funny.

It's just around the corner.

I'm in the financial district too, except that I'm in San Francisco's financial district. ;)

I meant dangerous in a bad way. :P I agree though. I have some background in Python and I am learning JavaScript now. C++ is next.

Does OCW have content that isn't available on EdX?

I get what you are saying and I think, to a decent extent, that was my goal in accepting a spot in the program. I want to learn C++ mainly because it is a huge language with some darker corners and the general consensus seems to be that half-knowing C++ is just plain dangerous in a production environment.

Moreover though, I want to work in a field where I find my work to be meaningful and I think education is a very good opportunity. The education market is ready to be rocked by an earthquake.

I'm currently a student at App Academy (similar to Dev Bootcamp), so I suppose I am being trained for web development, but that isn't what I want.

I want to go into software engineering and start my own business. My idea is to take these boot camps like App Academy and tailor the material to computer science, which I believe will be much more effective at landing jobs for students.

The problem is that I don't know whether this is a valid idea and I want to use myself as a test. My question is, given six months, can I learn enough computer science to get a job that uses something other than Rails.

I've never made software professionally, but I imagine the curve of getting used to a new company's systems would eat up most of that time, making it more of a hassle than it's worth.

If there is a way to overcome that though, this sounds like a cool idea.