Yes, I also feel these GA emails are misleading. Nothing beats a good computer science degree except the self taught technical geniuses who don't need courses anyway.
The whole GA thing seems just too greedy to me, don't see how they're adding much value at all. On Wednesday, 5 June 2013, simran wrote: > I'm a huge believer in people learning a new skill (for just the purity of > it, or for the application of it), and no doubt GA run fantastic courses - > but i'd be skeptical of implying that learning the skill in a few weeks > will give you enough knowledge to build your system (unless the system you > are building - be it website or app - is a trivial one and more an "add on" > to the business). Implying that doing a course for a few weeks makes you > sufficiently knowledgable and experienced to do relatively complex things > is like a techie thinking he doesn't need a business co-founders because he > found the "venture capital" category in the yellow pages or that he now has > a marketing plan because someone gave him a excel template! > > On a separate note, i have often seen people write their email as "simran > [at] dn.gs" and variations of that :) it's embarrassing to see that done > with people thinking that email harvesters are still pattern matching for > direct words on either side of an @ :) > > ($email = 'simran[ta]dn.gs') =~ s/\[ta\]/@/g; > haha :) > > > > On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Stacey Jacobs <sta...@generalassemb.ly>wrote: > > If you are having trouble trying to find a tech co-founder, have you > considered learning to code yourself? > > Check out > this<http://www.startupsmart.com.au/planning/business-planning/stop-looking-for-a-tech-co-founder-and-learn-how-to-do-it-yourself/201306049893.html>article > that Startup Smart wrote about General > Assembly <https://generalassemb.ly/> yesterday. > > As Riley Batchelor, our GM said: > > *“Coding is not as mysterious and difficult as people think. You just > need to start small and get your feet wet,” says Batchelor. “A lot of > students are quite surprised at their ability once they’ve jumped in, got > hands on and started practising."* > * > * > We have a few of upcoming courses in > Front-End<https://generalassemb.ly/education/front-end-web-development>, > Back-End <https://generalassemb.ly/education/back-end-web-development>and > Immersive > Development <https://generalassemb.ly/education/web-development-immersive> > . > > If you have any questions at all, drop me an email on stacey @ ga.co > > Remember that there are no silly questions too... our courses are designed > for beginners, so if you don't know the difference between front and back > end.... don't worry! > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more > > Forum rules > 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs > > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Silicon Beach Australia" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more > > Forum rules > 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs > > > To post to this group, send email to > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Vist http://siliconbeachaustralia.org for more Forum rules 1) No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. 2) No jobs postings. You can use http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/jobs To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Silicon Beach Australia" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
