What mattered to me the most were the people. I found out about LEARN from attending an SD Ruby Meetup. One of the people, Rob Kaufman (co-founder of LEARN) was giving a talk that broke things down in a way that made it easy for me understand how parts of Rails functioned. That was huge because at that time, I did not have a clear idea of what Rails was. I think it also says a lot about how LEARN is so heavily involved in the San Diego Tech scene. The lead instructor of my cohort was influential with his…read more→

I went to LEARN academy in January of 2018 to study full-stack web development. I did almost all the prep-work, and by week 8 of the program I was putting in at least 15 hours a week outside of class. Nearly every week there was an evening event to attend to learn more about development. Sometime around week 7 some classmates and I attended and placed in a 12 hour Saturday hackathon. By week 11 I had an opportunity for a part-time remote job doing front-end web development but decided to turn it down to focus on my internship at…read more→

As part of the first Learn cohort I was uncertain of what to expect, in retrospect it was the best decision I could have made. Quite aside from the great curriculum, the experience was awesome. The sense of belonging and camaraderie made all the difference. Many thanks to Chelsea and Rob!