…ways I don't even comprehend them anymore. Trying to help those who have come up through Hungry Academy, even just a little, has paid dividends in understanding "junior" programmers and more experienced developers who don't have my experiences.
They know that they work within a spectrum of ideal and non-ideal, and are OK with that. They are comfortable with it because they strive to make the ideal and non-ideal in a design explicit.
Again: hold all the things in your …
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I sat down with Elise Worthy at RailsConf to pair with her on a Rails application that used the Wunderground API to retrieve the weather for multiple cities. If you don't know Elise, she's a Hungry Academy student formerly of Seattle. You can read about how she built her app on the Hungry Academy Blog . Since Elise is new to programming, pairing with her made me think about how I work on small tasks when implementing a larger feature.
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…Ruby and Rails trainer Jeff Casimir to discuss his role with the Hungry Academy training program and to talk about the ideas behind training students in the art of programming generally.
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LivingSocial's 'Hungry Academy' will provide a paid, on-site 5 month Ruby and Rails learning experience and mentorship program to a small group of lucky applicants. Interested? You've only got a few days left to apply.
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…Jeff yesterday and posted an article about the Washington DC Hungry Academy program on the RailsBridge Open Workshops blog . I'm skeptical that you can got from "I've never coded" to writing production code on a web app like Living Social in 5 months, but if you have a passion to learn, go for it. At worst case, you'll get some great training and experience and be on your way to becoming a software developer.
Jeff is a dedicated and imaginative …
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8:45pm — Culinary Academy Logo Design Done 10:00pm — Website Layout Design Done
12:00pm — Website Layout Code Done
5:15am — Website Content & Code Done
6:15am — Website Final Edits Done
6:45am — Cross-browser QA Done
7:30am — Mobile QA Done
7:55am — New Website Launched! Woot!
See The Complete Process We Followed
We'd like to thank all the volunteers, our videographer Jim Manalisay who pulled …
8:45pm — Culinary Academy Logo Design Done 10:00pm — Website Layout Design Done
12:00pm — Website Layout Code Done
5:15am — Website Content & Code Done
6:15am — Website Final Edits Done
6:45am — Cross-browser QA Done
7:30am — Mobile QA Done
7:55am — New Website Launched! Woot!
See The Complete Process We Followed
We'd like to thank all the volunteers, our videographer Jim Manalisay who pulled …
…framework's logic is contained on the client-side and is generated directly off of Khan Academy's REST API .
By moving logic to the client-side we're able to have a much more interactive experience (doing all problem generation on the client-side, doing Ajax-y background submissions, things of that sort).
Testing
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…constructing the initial version of the iPad application, and working to improve Khan Academy's Open Source efforts.
It's incredibly important to me that Khan Academy is a non-profit and is working to ensure that all generated material (videos, exercises, and even the application itself) will be released for free and in the open. I'm going to be working to ensure that this continues into the future with help from contributors in the community.
Khan Academy is very …
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Over about a three-month period, AWPCP (an Academy member's product) made 400% more sales to returning visitors
Over a 60-day period, CrazyEgg made 1585% more sales to returning visitors
As an aside: you should absolutely be tracking these numbers on your own site. It's as simple as setting a purchase goal in Google Analytics. It takes 30 seconds and will provide you with some of the most actionable data you can glean from an analytics package. …
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