Show HN: App Academy Open – Free Online Coding Bootcamp

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by CesareBorgia • 8 years ago

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Hey all! We launched App Academy on HN 6 years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505752), and since then a lot’s happened. We’ve graduated and placed thousands of folks as engineers and actually placed more people as software engineers at Google (30 vs 22) than UC Berkeley has since 2016! Today, we are fulfilling a dream that I’ve had for some time: to put the whole curriculum online, for free. We’ve built a learning platform around it and we’re really excited to give people a taste (or the whole thing!) of the curriculum to help you understand what we’re about.

dallashall• 8 years ago

Awesome to have another free resource to point people to when they tell me they want to switch careers to become a programmer.

Does it make sense to show this to a total newbie, or should I point them to something like codecademy to get their feet wet?

CesareBorgia2• 8 years ago

Thanks!

We’ve tried to build a gentle ramp for folks with no programming experience so I’d definitely recommend it as an option for a total newbie! Also, because it is a completely integrated curriculum, they’ll be able to seamlessly transition from beginner to more intermediate concepts :)

yeezusswims• 8 years ago

As an App Academy alumnus who tells everyone code-curious I meet to check out App Academy, thank you! This is amazing news. It's a big step toward making software engineering even more accessible. App Academy 100% changed my life and the lives of a couple of my coworkers. Seriously can't thank Kush, Ned, Daniel, Chase, and the whole a/A team enough.

markfer• 8 years ago

As someone that's very familiar with App Academy - this is incredible.

kevinyun• 8 years ago

This is pretty sweet, and cool to see how far AppAcademy has come.

Open sourcing curriculum was always something I wanted to do with designation.io, so kudos for executing! The value is definitely not in the learning material (everything is Google-eable) -- the in-person help/mentoring is what you pay for in a bootcamp.

tduek• 8 years ago

This is great! I'm excited that the curriculum of the top-rated bootcamp will now be so much more accessible to the world- not only to people who can afford to move to one of the two cities where App Academy has in-person campuses (San Francisco and New York) and be jobless while they go through the program. This is a dream come true! Breaking down barriers!

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