This thread is a revelation. I had no idea that web programming was so hard.
I humbly suggest that, in future, the interloping suit-wearing business types set their sights on more tractable tasks in their 10 week courses: "Teach yourself OpenCV in 24 hours" or "Denotational Semantics for Co-founders" or perhaps "Everything you wanted to know about Combinatorial Optimization but were afraid to ask". Geoff. On Thursday, 6 June 2013 18:40:54 UTC+10, riley batchelor wrote: > > Dylan, we would love to have you come and teach a class on djanjo or > node.js if you are keen? We did classes on these topics a little while > back, but it would be great to run them again. > > We choose RoR for the back-end web development course as we feel 1 > framework is probably enough for a 10 week course :) But we are fully aware > its not the only option worth teaching and we encourage our alumni to > continue their learning in other areas. > > Good luck with your meetup! > > Riley > > On Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:31:01 UTC+10, Dylan Jay wrote: >> >> Since we're talking about misleading I am also concerned their course for >> backend development is advertised as "backend development", not a RoR >> course as it actually is. I'm guessing they don't have skills in house to >> teach django or node.js or any of the many other equally good technology >> choices but it doesn't look good to make out that is the only real option >> for backend development. The 60+ people turning up to the sydney python >> meetup 6pm tonight at Atlassian tells you there are many other options out >> there. (sorry couldn't help the plug). >> >> --- >> Dylan Jay >> Technical Solutions Manager >> PretaWeb: Multisite Performance Support >> P: +612 80819071 | M: +61421477460 | twitter.com/pretaweb | >> linkedin.com/in/djay75 >> >> >> >> On 06/06/2013, at 3:40 PM, riley batchelor <rileyb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> > Hi all, The way we talk about our courses in this instance is not meant >> to offend any developers or technical founders. And its definitely not our >> intention to simplify your skills set as developers. Please don't take it >> that way :) >> > >> > It takes years and years of hard work to become a great web developer. >> We know that, our teachers know that and our students all know that. Our >> courses (which are a minimum of 10 weeks not a couple of weeks as stated) >> are designed to teach beginners how to get started, to learn some coding, >> to empower them to want to learn more and to be able to communicate better >> with experienced developers. >> > >> > Every day we speak to students from a non-technical background that >> want to build and launch their ideas. Some of them are lucky to find great >> developers to work with and others not so much, so our courses give them an >> option to get started. This also allows them to develop skills that offer >> value to everyone in the startup community and to help it grow. I think we >> all want that. >> > >> > We are trying to help them navigate through what can be a very >> confusing world by providing them with access to highly skilled developers, >> something that many developers that we work with say would have been a huge >> asset when they were teaching themselves to code. >> > >> > We realise that our post wasn't communicated correctly. We are sorry to >> anyone this list we have annoyed. We will continue to strive to work >> together to create a healthy startup ecosystem in Sydney , sometime we make >> mistakes. >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > -- >> > 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. 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