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Living Social is likely the fastest growing technology business in Washington, DC that’s run into a problem: they cannot find engineers in the DC area quickly enough. So instead of uprooting and moving to Silicon Valley or some other more tech-dense city, Living Social is taking a different approach. They’re trying to create more developers. Hungry Academy’s goal is to take 24 driven people without development skill, and turn them into developers. And they’ll employ them, full-time, while they’re undergoing training.
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Information Diet | Why Hungry Academy Matters
This is brilliant. And another sign that higher education is not only overpriced, but increasingly out of touch. Rack up student loan debt for a degree that may not even teach you the real world of programming, or earn a living while learning from people in the industry?
I know my choice. We’re in the thick of paying Carl’s loans, yet almost everything he learned about real-world development he either taught himself since middle school or learned on the job. (And the people who learn this way are the ones you really want to hire anyway. A degree does not a student make.)
