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Don't do business with Bloc.io - tread lightly with coding bootcamps

Don't do business with Bloc.io - tread lightly with coding bootcamps

Don't do business with Bloc.io - tread lightly with coding bootcamps

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 08:39 PM PDT

Wow this whole story is well over a year in the making. Early last year I got a job with a website of a TV station. It was my break away from TV into the web, the right direction...right? I decided it would be a good idea to get some experience coding, so that at least I could say I was familiar and had a working knowledge of raw programming instead of just operating a CMS (Content Management System). I have many friends who went through real computer science degrees, studying for years, going through intense interview with big companies like Google and Facebook and other smaller start ups in places from San Francisco to Atlanta. I knew that an online coding course that was "intensive" and involved "mentors" instead of certified instructors was just something to improve knowledge instead of really qualifying someone to be a true engineer. I knew the risk I was taking. Remember, a year and a half ago this coding bootcamp thing (call it a phenomenon, if you will) was really just gaining tracking with the pseudo-mainstream. What I mean by that is that you were just starting to see reports on mainstream media about soccer moms who lost their jobs or wanted a career change and decided to do a coding bootcamp and became coders seemingly overnight. I even knew people personally in D.C. who could attest to having gone through a 4-6 month course in person or online and it led them from administrative jobs to coding jobs quickly and smoothly. It wasn't that far fetched, but with these too good to be true stories, comes the moments when even smart people like myself are duped. I can't tell you how tired I am, at this point, of rehashing this story, but I feel like I have to in order to help the next person, as someone here on Reddit was able to, in-part, help me, by telling their story and refusing to delete it. Early last year I was offered a job in web journalism. I quickly started looking up coding bootcamps as it was something I had wanted to do anyway. Some are 10s of thousands of dollars and some require months away from work or intense testing beforehand to make sure you are the right candidate for their programs. Those are the programs you should probably be more willing to take a risk on. The others are programs like Bloc.io. They promise "University of Phoenix-Style" freedoms. They promise that you can go to work and in your spare time, or all of your time outside of work, meet with a person, over webcam, who knows the industry and who will help you through the Bloc.io lessons. Now all of the other negative reviews about Bloc.io's lessons that you might read on Reddit, written by students who dropped out, or on Glassdoor, by mentors who were tired of the way they cobble things together, are true. They take content from various free sources on the web, lessons that you know about and can easily access, and they put them into their lessons and they comprise the vast majority of all of their lessons. They lock the lessons so you can't analyse any of it until it's too late and you've already paid for it. Your mentor checks off the lessons whether you finish them or not, because they have to stay on track or else they will run out of time and space to fit in more students. They use this against you saying you did the lessons so you have to pay for them, if you say you aren't happy with the lessons. They are very hesitant to switch mentors, if you are unhappy, presumably because they know all the mentors are in the same boat and you'll discover you're unhappy with the next one too. One mentor on Glassdoor (https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Employee-Review-Bloc-RVW10476805.htm) wrote about how he didn't know what to tell students who complained that Bloc.io would switch up lessons on them at the last minute and ask them to pay more in order to go back and do the corrected and improved course, even though they had already paid and were in the middle of the course. I spoke with one previous Bloc.io student who quit in the middle of the course because the lessons were so lacking and obviously ripped from free sources on the web, he felt like he was essentially paying to do things he had already done for free, before. (https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/2sanas/i_took_the_blocio_frontend_web_development_course)

He told me how it was about a year ago, and at that time the program coordinator called him to talk about his post on Reddit after they sent him a message asking him for clues about who he was. They refunded his money in full, but it was in an attempt to get him to remove the Reddit post.

I wasn't so lucky. I had to freeze the course over the summer last year, when one of the program coordinators ended up apologizing to me. After weeks of being unsatisfied with the lessons and not seeing a single lesson on coding, which was promised to me in the design track, I complained. My mentor told me he know nothing about coding because he wasn't a coder, but a designer. You see, a program coordinator named Andy convinced me that I must do the design track because it would have an introduction to coding in the course, and it would help ease me into the Frontend portion, instead of just diving right into intense coding. Well there are two thing I learned from personal experience and first hand witnesses. The design course has such menial and nominal coding involved that it's of zero use or help to someone going into a Frontend coding course. The second thing is, people who I've spoken to have dropped the Frontend course because they felt they weren't learning anything and that it was ripped from other free lessons floating around on the internet. So if that's the case, I never had a hope of being prepared to get a coding job. I'll only use first names of the people at Bloc.io here. Juline was someone else I had email exchanges with. You see you'll notice at Bloc.io that they frequently pass you to another person when they either don't know how to deal with you or don't want to. That's what I assumed for months. I tried to switch mentors, but I realized all was futile. I wasn't getting anywhere with Amanda or any of the others involved in student experience. I froze the program. Instead of dropping out and forfeiting your money, you can freeze the course until you're in the right frame of mind and the right place in your life again to deal with the problem. According to their agreement you have 2 years to figure it out. A few months later and into the new year (2016), I had relocated and switched jobs. Finally after buying a condo and settling into my new life I decided I would log back in and finally dig into this course and just get it done. A prompt popped up on the screen asking me if I wanted to enroll. That was a Friday night. I emailed Amanda and Andy to ask them why, when they said if I logged back in, the course would be waiting for me to unfreeze it, did it appear as though they'd kicked me out of the course and kept my $5,600.

Let's back up. When I had all of those problems before, they promised me in writing that could take the $5,600 out of the $8,000 that I was supposed to pay, and just go directly into the Frontend course and call it even. They said it was less that I was supposed to pay but it was a deal for all my trouble. I soon would realize that pricing it something extraordinarily arbitrary for Bloc.io - When one person says one price, another will come in with a wildly different one, and none of the prices you'll even get from a Bloc.io employee match up with the ones on their public facing website. With Bloc.io, you never know what you're going to get from day to day, and that's why they should scare you.

At this point, I had had enough. I had been more patient with this than any other purchase in my life. I had given them over a year of my life to get it right, and then never could find a way. Amanda and Andy passed me off to Bloc.io's COO Clint Schmidt. A character that is the epitome of shady, angel-investor soaked silicon valley. A place where profits and customer-user satisfaction is scarce, but power rules because they have imaginary money to play with, and they need your private information and your real money in order to keep it going. Clint Schmidt and I had an incredibly uncomfortable conversation where in the span of an hour or so we hung up and redialed the call about 3 times and exchanged email about the same number of times. Clint Schmidt decided that even though I was promised, in writing, about a year ago, that I would only need to pay $5,600, after all of my trouble, to just go directly into the Frontend portion of the course...that I now would need to pay $1,100 more dollars to continue. He said he would lose money if I didn't. He said that the student coordinators should have never promised me what they promised. Let me ask you this: How am I, as a customer/user/student supposed to know what amount I will be charged when, from the beginning, none of their pricing matched the website prices, and every single person told me a different price. And now, just because he decided to, Clint Schmidt, the COO of Bloc.io is on the phone telling me to give him more money. Now, I've read through their facebook page, and I've scoured the internet. I've found a few bad reviews to corroborate my experiences, but I've also found evidence that they do a ton of Search Engine Optimization and they work hard to control the negative reviews they get. I don't believe a pyramid scheme would last very long these days with how the internet connects us all and allows for true experiences and warnings and reviews to come to the surface and glare out in the faces of the thousands of gullible citizens we have in the country. But I, an intelligent person, was duped by these people, in the same reminiscent fashion as any responsible person would be in the past with a new and shiny pyramid scheme.

I'm trying to figure out if something like a pyramid scheme, or a direct marketing scheme or multi-level marketing would even apply. They are offering a fake service, full of hard to fulfill/grandiose promises, and they charge each person the amount they feel they can charge them and get away with. They don't want the public to know exactly how they do business and they stay nimble with the way they do what they do so that no one can say they are practicing business in the wrong way or have unusable lessons because they can just use the "beta" excuse. They just say they are constantly improving and listening to feedback. Well, then you're essentially charging people to help you grow your businesses with their failures. Failures that you caused. Education is not something that silicon valley needs to be doing.

Ok, so that I don't go too off track with analogies, I'll get back to the story of what happened. Finally I spoke to a lawyer in San Jose, California who informed me that what they are doing is a violation of two main California consumer legal statutes: The CA CLRA http://www.harp.org/clra.htm and in general a misrepresentation of consumer goods and services.

I wrote a letter to Clint Schmidt, to which he never replied. I then requested that he reply and he (as I mentioned is a practice of theirs) passed me off to Amanda.

Amanda argued with me and tried to only refund $3,900 of my $5,600. I left multiple voicemails and emails with her. She wrote to me to tell me to schedule an appointment. Then I emailed her to tell her I'm not scheduling an appointment, but instead will move forward with filing papers in San Francisco small claims court. Amanda called me, without making an appointment, and told me that she was just doing what she was told to do, and for me to call my bank and request that they do a dispute on all of the charged that Bloc.io made on my card so that it would get refunded. She told me how she felt bad about having to do these things, but that management there makes them do it. She verbatim told me that it makes her feel "icky". I called my bank, but they don't do disputes for charges that are over 60 days old. I reported this back to Amanda, who then never replied. I left an email in her inbox telling her that they should really put into perspective how this is not all work going to court over. I am a hardworking person and honest, this sort of thing should not be happening to me, especially when it comes to something like education. Amanda finally reports back to me a day or so later, in the evening as she is walking out to the street and leaving the office, that there was an internal restructuring of the company and she got a new manager. Now that Clint Schmidt wasn't her manager anymore, she could get the refund approved by the new manager. The new manager, in a matter of hours, saw how shady Clint Schmidt was being and told Amanda to refund the money. It is now back in my bank account. My money. Money that was stolen from me temporarily. Money that I fought for without wasting the U.S. court system's resources.

Look, I work for a very large media outlet, and so does the other person who has left a big complaint about Bloc.io on Reddit and has refused to delete it after Bloc.io refunded his money and requested that he do so. Still, I don't, at this time, know if I feel dedicated enough to this cause to try and get my organization to tell the story of the dangers of online coding bootcamps. Some might be good, but some, like Bloc.io, are horrible.

I've warned you. And I too with not delete this message to you, just like my fellow Reddit friend refused to do. The one who wrote this and with whom I've spoken to over the phone to get more details on his story: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/2sanas/i_took_the_blocio_frontend_web_development_course/

My buddy in the tech and journalism world asked around for me and found someone in the know who recommends a project called Hack Reactor and was happy with it. It's about $18k-$20k and you have to dedicate actual time to it. Maybe even quit your job. There's another serious course called AppAcademy which is free, but has a rigorous admissions process and they get paid when you get employed. You agree to let them take about %18 of your first year's salary. Now to me, that sounds like an organization that is ACTUALLY invested in its students. Bloc.io on the other hand? You're lucky if they even ask for feedback, even if you finish their course.

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How do I get skilled enough to work on open source projects?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:23 AM PDT

I'm familiar with the basics of python, I'm coding every chance I get. I'm still mainly doing training exercises(and often failing at them, though learning why in the process). I haven't coded anything practical yet(other than a few exercises out of automate the boring stuff). my python-based anki deck is growing.

I really want to start contributing, but while I'm learning more, I'm also continually confronted with my current shortcomings. I'm not ready yet, though I feel as though the point at which I could contribute something of value is not some distant horizon. outside of the basics of python, what tools, modules and skillset's do i need to become familiar with in order to be ready for open source development.

outside of the basics I plan on tackling scrapy and selenium as soon as I'm able to make use of it.

here is the projects I want to contribute to: qubes https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+label%3A%22help+wanted%22

transparency toolkit https://github.com/TransparencyToolkit

and also a voice control for anki, with the ability to read the questions aloud and to (possibly) recognize my answer as correct or incorrect(though that last may be impossible[for me] for some time).

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I've always wanted to be a computer programmer, I'm 26 now with no knowledge of programming

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 09:23 PM PDT

I have taken a few programming courses in college but that was like 5 years ago. I've taken Java 101 ,Java 2, html and a couple others. I've forgotten most of what I've known. If I'm going to start learning today what is the best languages to start out with and what should I do to make myself a good programmer and to hopefully get a programming job by the time I'm 30?

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Different machines yielding different results

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 11:35 AM PDT

Hi all, I'm currently doing a course on Coursera that features some steganography with javascript. I'm at the point that I'm extracting a hidden image from the master image and I'm getting different results when I do it on different computers. On my laptop, the code runs as I would expect and displays the image accurately. When I run it on my desktop it outputs an image that is, for want of a better word, a mess. I'm running the script from http://www.dukelearntoprogram.com/course1/example/index.php in both cases and both are through an up to date version of Google Chrome. Does anyone know what might be causing this? So far the course mentor I have been speaking with seems a little stumped

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CS student: Chromebook as thin client to home desktop? (Dont upvote, quick question)

Posted: 14 Aug 2016 07:37 PM PDT

Preface(not necessary to read. If TL;DR, just refer to question): First year CS student who starts in just over a weeks time. As most poor college students, I am on a budget and dont want to dish out the cash for a dev-capable laptop that will only be used for school purposes. It seems wasteful to me, and honestly I dont want to deal with the headaches that MAY arise due to Linux/Laptop compatibility. Trying to fix even the littlest quirks when I have deadlines for school is a bad scenario for me. On top of this, Ive spent the last four years of high school perfecting a pretty decent desktop computer that functions perfectly as a dev machine running Linux, and would prefer not to spend even more money on an equally capable portable machine.

My question: Would it be possible/feasible to purchase a chromebook which I use as a thin client connected to my home computer? My theory is that the home computer would then do the real legwork in regards to coding, running different IDE's, and anything else I need. I understand that for this to work 100% connection uptime will be required, and I dont see this being an issue in my situation.

Thanks for any help

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How to get started with Windows App Development?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 06:17 AM PDT

I've made a simple paint clone in java. Basic draw shapes, and add pictures. However, I now want to take the step up and make the program in Windows, partly to take advantage of windows ink, and other features they have like hand writing recognition. How do I start?

My way of learning programming has been to watch youtube tutorials, now I find myself a little lost.

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Hello! I'm code illiterate, but I really want to introduce my 12y/o little brother to coding. Any suggestions?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:14 AM PDT

So I'm like the older brother that dropped out of college, doesn't stay in touch with the family and I live pretty far away. I try to stay in touch with my siblings as much as possible but the age difference and tension in the family makes it difficult to do. I'm spending a week in town with them for the first time in about 5 years and I'm really bonding with my little bro. I can tell he is very sharp. I'm super proud of him and I've asked him what he wants to do when he gets older. He tells me computer programmer. This kid loves things like super Mario builder/minecraft/etc... However! His parents aren't the most supportive of the idea, mainly because they know next to nothing about it and they have 5 more kids in the family to deal with(he is one of 6 not including me lol). He has a laptop he shares with the family and an iPad of his own, but over the past two years he's saved up like 500$ to build a PC. I think that is friggen awesome for a 12 year old.

Anyways... I want to help!! Cash is not really an issue but I don't want to spend too much because don't want him or his parents to feel like I'm trying to influence him and I don't want to spend a non proportionate amount of cash on him than my other siblings. Also, I can't guide him much since I'm rarely around and I live on the other side of the country.

BASICALLY!! I want to get him into a program where he can learn by himself through tinkering/exercises/real game examples in order to get him engaged and I don't want him to be turned off by a feeling of it being too school-like, if that makes sense. I don't want it to be like schooling out of school. So my plan is to set a goal related to the program that when achieved will reward him with a brand new Nvidia gtx 1080 from his bro to go to his custom PC fund. Also for him to work I'll probably give him my work laptop which is respectably beefy (i5 processor, Intel HD graphics 500 I believe?, 8gb ram, 256gb ssd)

I know there are subscription based online courses and that sounds great and there are stand alone game building tools on steam that I can get him as well. So what can you guys with experience teaching recommend. He is a straight A student and I want to challenge him. Money is not a huge issue, but if he ends up not using a 300$ product that wouldn't be cool. When I learn he is hungry for the knowledge I'll drop what ever I need to into it. For now maybe a combo of a course and some software would be good.

Any recommendations?! Also, I know the post is sloppy, my apologies. No wifi here and I'm using my cellphone. Typing my unedited thoughts.

Thanks in advance you guys!

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Wondering what the difference is when introducing std::function in this little bit of code. C++

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:14 AM PDT

Hello there! I am just wondering what difference is in this bit of code.

void stdFunction() { std::unordered_map<EntityType, Entity*> m_entityFactory; std::unordered_map<EntityType, std::function<Entity*(void)>> m_entityFactoryFunction; std::unordered_map<unsigned int, Entity*> m_entities; m_entityFactory[EntityType::Player] = new Player; //Getting the singular instance of the entity from singular instance stored in factory? auto itr = m_entityFactory.find(EntityType::Player); if (itr != m_entityFactory.end()) { m_entities.emplace(1, itr->second); m_entities.emplace(2, itr->second); //m_entities.emplace(itr->first, itr->second); //m_entities.emplace(itr->first, itr->second); } //Getting the instance stored in function - thus getting different instances that are stored? auto iter = m_entityFactoryFunction.find(EntityType::Player); if (iter != m_entityFactoryFunction.end()) { m_entities.emplace(1, itr->second); m_entities.emplace(2, itr->second); //m_entities.emplace(itr->first, itr->second); //m_entities.emplace(itr->first, itr->second); } }

I am somewhat knowledgeable on the function template but I think I need a lot more guidance on understanding this. Thank you in advance!

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Swift development tips on Snapchat

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:11 AM PDT

Hey, i've recently started sharing development tips for Swift on Snapchat.

Latest story is still up and still at the basics stage before moving on to more topics. Today covered, editing the status bar, creating elements on the fly and detecting a tap.

Snapchat - rustywicket

More info here: https://medium.com/@russellbarnard/swift-development-tips-on-snapchat-weekly-9f3ecd66b619#.1kk0ig9a7

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Undergraduate data science independent study topic

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 12:33 PM PDT

I'm current a senior CS student registering to complete an undergraduate data science Independent Study course with a professor at my university. When completing an Independent Study you meet with your advisor, a faculty member, a couple times a week and discuss the topic/progress. In the past, some students have used MOOCs while others have completed a combination of MOOCs and projects.

 

I need help selecting a topic. I spoke with my faculty advisor and he mentioned maybe working with Hadoop and MapReduce.

 

Goals:

  • Learn new concepts which aren't outdated
  • Add a project to my resume
  • Experience how research works in an academic environment

 

What is an interesting topic that has a sufficient amount of available material? Is Hadoop/MapReduce ideal?

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Looking for Ruby Practice Problems (need to sharpen up my logic)

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:46 AM PDT

Hi! I'm a bootcamp student learning Ruby on Rails. We did some 'pure Ruby' in the early part of the curriculum, and then jumped straight into Rails development. I love working in Rails, but since it's been our main focus I'm realizing that my Ruby logic (i.e. ability to code efficient methods) is not as rock-solid as I'd like it to be, and I'm looking for practice problems.

So, what is your favorite source of Ruby practice problems? Is there a site, course or book that you found especially helpful? I'd love to hear what's worked well for other people. Thanks!

Edit: grammar

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[Rust] Unable to execute a try!() statement?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 12:21 PM PDT

I have the following code 

impl <T,E> compressable for Zipper { fn compress (&self) -> Result<T,E> { let destination = try!(self.get_destination_path().ok_or("Error")); // in this expansion of try! } }

Where self.get_destination_path() returns Option<&str>

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Having trouble with this d3.js gauge

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 12:18 PM PDT

Here is my code. It's long so I put it in paste bin.

Basically, on lines 235-237 you instantiate needle. But this is only working for the last chart. I need a way to instantiate a needle per dataSet object.

Any ideas on this?

I need to create a gauge per item in the dataset object.

Edit: source code from d3js site that I based this off of

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Should I make a game for my software engineering class project ?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 12:15 PM PDT

I think making a game will be a valuable learning experience but is it a good idea for a software engineering course ? I think a good SE project should include dealing with user requirements, feasibility etc So is it a good idea ?

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Trying to make a simple python script executable. Never done this before. Any Advice?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 12:14 PM PDT

Hey guys,

So I've never written python until now, but today I wrote a couple of scripts to help me get through a series of recurring calculations I have to do at work.

I'd like to be able to share this program with my co-workers as we all have to do the same formulas and it would save everyone a ton of time, instead of doing it all by hand.

Any advice for making my code executable with a real simple GUI? Basically just looking for a simple text box with input type thing.

Thanks in advance!

If this is the wrong sub to ask in, I apologize. Please point me towards the correct one :)

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Is learning the language and concepts without completing projects the wrong learning approach?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 08:24 AM PDT

I've been learning Javascript for a while and I know what 80% of the code is doing or what it's trying to work around. I understand most of the concepts and even some general computer science concepts like certain data structures and algorithm implementations.

Now even though I have the knowledge I don't think that knowledge is immediately applicable. I've done the beginner freecodecamp algorithms and they were difficult.

Is there only so much learning the concepts can improve programming skills without applying them to large projects?

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[Javascript / Node] I am doing password storage server side properly?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 11:55 AM PDT

I am making a login system for a small spare time project where I am using SJCL, but having a bit of trouble understanding the docs completely and with lacking examples to compare with I wanted to post here and get some feedback.

I am following OWASP guide for password storage, so it's on the form protectedForm = salt + H(salt, password, 10000).

When making the password the first time I am doing the following:

var salt = sjcl.random.randomWords(18, 0); var hashedPassword = sjcl.misc.pbkdf2(password, salt); var protectedForm = sjcl.bitArray.concat(salt, hashedPassword, 10000);

And on the login:

var salt = docs.salt; var hashedPassword = sjcl.misc.pbkdf2(password, salt); var protectedForm = sjcl.bitArray.concat(salt, hashedPassword, 10000);

I especially would like to know if I am making the salts the right way and using the right functions for the job?

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How realistic would it be to move into a junior developer role working remotely?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 07:33 AM PDT

Hi all,

I'm just curious as to whether anyone has successfully made the transition into a junior development role that isn't office based.

I personally have some health issues that can restrict my ability to get into an office on a regular basis. As I'm very experienced in my current testing role, I'm able to work remotely.

Outside of my 9-5 job I'm about 4 months in to learning how to code (and feeling the grind....). If I'm eventually going to try and make a career out of it I'm going to need the same allowances I'm afforded now with regards to working environment. I know by law workplaces need to accomodate certain health issues but this does limit my options.

Unfortunately I'm not a shit hot developer for which my skills are so good that working remotely would be an afterthought for any potential employer. Instead like most people I'll need a fair amount of hand holding initially which will be harder to do remotely.

Has anyone had any experience working as a junior developer in a remote position? positive or negative.

Thanks,

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Getting lost with inserting JSON data into HTML...

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 11:07 AM PDT

I've been googling and googling, but it's not getting through my thick head. I'm making a random quote generator, and I want to use an API. I'm getting confused on the function that actually does something with the data.

var url = "http://quotes.stormconsultancy.co.uk/random.json?callback=my_method"

function getQuote(data){ $(".quote").text(data.//???ThisIsWhereIAmLost???) } $.getJSON(url, getQuote);

As you can tell, I am basically completely lost. I know I need to link to my API, but I can't figure out how to pull the quote and author from the JSON data, and put it into my HTML. Everything I try seems to just not do anything at all.

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Figuring out which language is right for the project

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 11:02 AM PDT

I did some basic programming in high school using php and sql to make some really basic websites for teachers that needed some things like online time cards so their students could log hours working on projects. I wanted to make a cataloging software for myself and my friends so we could catalog our trading cards a lot easier since it's difficult to sort through boxes and boxes of cards. Does anyone have any suggestions on which language(s) I should be starting to learn that would be the most beneficial for me trying to make a cataloging/databasing program? Thanks for any help or advice you might have :)

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[Python]How do I output {'geometry':{'coordinates':[' ', ' ']} from the USGS GeoJson data feed I'm able to query the ['features']['properties'] using a for loop but i cant seem to query the coordinates data. Please advise.

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 11:02 AM PDT

Here is the link to the GeoJson feed look at the JSON dict structure under the output box Link: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/geojson.php

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[Algorithms] Figuring out how many times the code is executed

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 10:46 AM PDT

So I have an algorithm I need to work out how many times A, and B are executed as well as the time complexity. 

for i ← 1 to (n − 1) do for j ← (i + 1) to n do A B for k ← (i + 1) to n do A B

What I think may be right,

A - 4n

B - 3n

Θ( n2 )

Can someone give me tips on working out the correct answer please.

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Will nodejs and python will be a good combination for future job and placement?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 10:44 AM PDT

I am cse 3rd year student. I know the basics of c , c++ and java And learning nodejs.

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Where can I learn the other skills necessary for being a developer, besides coding?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 04:09 AM PDT

Hey guys,

I´m creating websites with Wordpress and Multi-Purpose-Themes in a design agency and want to dive deep into coding and become a skilled developer.

Now I have more than enough online resources to learn the whole coding and theory parts, even how to use the tools like Sublime Text & Git.

But I can´t find courses or lessons on the other essential things, like how actual industry workflows look, how to deploy a project from first line of code to live on the production-server, equiped with peformance tools like Varnish, etc.

Do you know where I could learn that knowledge? I´d like to know all the relevant things I need to know to be a productive developer in a real company. Only knowing how to write code won´t help me that much on the first trial day of a job or similar situation.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers, SAM

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What are the best ways to retain knowledge in different languages?

Posted: 15 Aug 2016 09:57 AM PDT

How often do you guys practice coding to retain languages that you might not be using for a while or how to remember certain documentations?

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