My name is James Dennis and I was in batch[0]. I'm the guy with the red headphones on http://www.hackerschool.com/.
I originally met Dave and Nick through the outgoing hacker community in NYC. I say outgoing because the community here self-selects into people looking to bond over programming. Sure enough, Dave, Nick and Sonali were part of it. I met Sonali during Hacker School.
I was somewhat aware of Hackruiter and felt they were really smart. They always asked lots of questions and helped me reinforce my understanding of things.
Dave and I went out for dinner and he told me the idea was to have a bunch of smart people in a room and see what happens when they all also like coding. I had been working on a few frameworks one the side, Brubeck and DictShield, and thought it'd be great to work with a bunch of other people.
We all introduced ourselves at Hacker School's first day and talked about what we intended to work on. All of us had that slight impatience like when we want to get working. We also all had that same curiosity where you want to know what you can learn and share with other people.
Everyone had really awesome ideas. Everyone completed lots of awesome ideas. We talked about programming, heard talks from awesome guests, discussed concurrency, functional programming, distributed systems, python, ruby, erlang, c, javascript, node.js, brubeck, zeromq, nginx... the list just keeps going on because the group knew when to talk and share ideas and when to just put the headphones on and hack.
I wrote a lot of code for Brubeck and DictShield. I also built a link sharing example site called ListSurf. Then I built it in a more elaborate way and called that Readify. I got a lot of stuff done.
I reached out to my friends to find those that had that same values and creative drive as the first group and I'm happy to say a bunch of them went and really enjoyed it.
The second batch, batch[1], was just as awesome. Two of my friends from the Dumbo Tech Breakfast were there. A friend from NYCPython was there. New friends came from law school, ran a beef jerky shop, have built music sites, have taught programming classes and managed libraries.
I have met some of my favorite people through Hacker School. That's an amazing gift to receive for free. I spent every Saturday with Hacker School during batch[1], even though I was in batch[0].
This is great. I'd like to attend, but as an undergraduate not sure how much can I do with classmates as I imagine most people have been coding for a long time. Yet, Hacker school sounds like an awesome place to go to right after college.
You don't necessarily have to have been coding for a long time. You just have to be smart, love programming, and be willing to learn. If you're not sure, apply anyway :)
I originally met Dave and Nick through the outgoing hacker community in NYC. I say outgoing because the community here self-selects into people looking to bond over programming. Sure enough, Dave, Nick and Sonali were part of it. I met Sonali during Hacker School.
I was somewhat aware of Hackruiter and felt they were really smart. They always asked lots of questions and helped me reinforce my understanding of things.
Dave and I went out for dinner and he told me the idea was to have a bunch of smart people in a room and see what happens when they all also like coding. I had been working on a few frameworks one the side, Brubeck and DictShield, and thought it'd be great to work with a bunch of other people.
We all introduced ourselves at Hacker School's first day and talked about what we intended to work on. All of us had that slight impatience like when we want to get working. We also all had that same curiosity where you want to know what you can learn and share with other people.
Everyone had really awesome ideas. Everyone completed lots of awesome ideas. We talked about programming, heard talks from awesome guests, discussed concurrency, functional programming, distributed systems, python, ruby, erlang, c, javascript, node.js, brubeck, zeromq, nginx... the list just keeps going on because the group knew when to talk and share ideas and when to just put the headphones on and hack.
I wrote a lot of code for Brubeck and DictShield. I also built a link sharing example site called ListSurf. Then I built it in a more elaborate way and called that Readify. I got a lot of stuff done.
I reached out to my friends to find those that had that same values and creative drive as the first group and I'm happy to say a bunch of them went and really enjoyed it.
The second batch, batch[1], was just as awesome. Two of my friends from the Dumbo Tech Breakfast were there. A friend from NYCPython was there. New friends came from law school, ran a beef jerky shop, have built music sites, have taught programming classes and managed libraries.
I have met some of my favorite people through Hacker School. That's an amazing gift to receive for free. I spent every Saturday with Hacker School during batch[1], even though I was in batch[0].
Never graduate.