Hi! Thanks for replying! I've seen your comments and tweets a lot; we do seem to know a lot of the same people. (I met most of our mutual friends through Jess Mink, who I knew through CMU-Q.) My whirlwind background is that I studied international relations at a liberal arts college; I took a few programming classes and enjoyed them, but was too busy with my planned career in singlehandedly saving the world from poverty and injustice to consider a career in mere gadgetry. After spending the intervening 14 years editing a newspaper, getting an MSW, being a therapist, and running CMU-Q's tutoring center, I'm realizing that I haven't made much of a dent in poverty and injustice and there might in fact be some upsides to considering a career I enjoy instead of one I feel morally compelled to pursue. My husband is a Googler with a Ph.D. in robotics (and was a CS major/music minor, coincientally). My daughter is 2.5 and wants to be an elephant when she grows up, although I'm not ruling out hipster trumpeter or mad scientist.
I've looked at the websites of lots of "programming boot camp" type things, but Hacker School is the only one that real programmers seem to tell me about. I may have to look into how I could rearrange life to make that possible sometime. The Chicago program sounds intriguing, too, but I am somewhat geographically constrained by Google office locations.
I'm sort of hoping that good schools admit sketchy master's students because they need our tuition dollars... I think it's my only real shot at a good degree. ;-)
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Date: 2013-04-10 01:47 am (UTC)I've looked at the websites of lots of "programming boot camp" type things, but Hacker School is the only one that real programmers seem to tell me about. I may have to look into how I could rearrange life to make that possible sometime. The Chicago program sounds intriguing, too, but I am somewhat geographically constrained by Google office locations.
I'm sort of hoping that good schools admit sketchy master's students because they need our tuition dollars... I think it's my only real shot at a good degree. ;-)