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Hi,

Thanks for the reply. Good points, I have tried to cover these things as much as I could so that I can cover insurance, pension, and a co-working space. I am more looking for the nitty-gritty part of it, regarding how they organize the agreement (contractually). I think I have found another post that shed some light on this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18289932

Thanks again,

Valentijn


Incredible podcast. Super interesting to see somebody so completely soaked into a single topic.


There are some excellent bootcamps out there that have better terms I believe than the offer you mention above.

Here are just a few we have come across recently that you can check out. Not sure if you are looking for front-end, full-stack, or mobile dev to name a few, so I mixed it a bit:

- https://www.thinkful.com/bootcamp/web-development/flexible/ - https://lambdaschool.com/courses/full-stack-web-development - https://flatironschool.com/career-courses/coding-bootcamp/ - https://www.hackreactor.com/ - https://www.codecademy.com/learn/paths/web-development - https://www.makeschool.com/ (bit of a different approach, still very much interesting)

I recommend you look for those that work with an ISA type of structure. That way you are sure the platform is incentivized to get you a good job afterwards.

Good luck!


Great to hear you like it! Mind sharing what you think is great and what could be better?

Thanks for sharing!


+1

If you do not have the time, it does seem indeed best to focus on practical experience, so you can really just get stuff done quickly.

Thanks for sharing.


Hi,

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We could not agree more. It is super hard to really find out EXACTLY what your path should be (or at least an approximate path). This is why we are exploring our personalized learning guide (https://courseroot.com/cs-curriculums/tailor-made/). The goal is to recommend the best path (or paths) based on the students background, goals, current situation, expenses, etc.

Would love to hear what you think of this.

Thanks again for sharing.


Hi Kevin,

Thanks for taking the time to comment.

You are right, it is on the expensive side. We just wanted to showcase the best CS college degrees were someone to decide to make the commitment to college (most are relatively expensive). But you are absolutely right in that there are definitely other options that are less expensive.

Would you maybe like to see a tab or something that would show more college options?


Just read about "The Laws of Simplicity" and "The design of everyday things".

They seem to be frequently recommended. Anybody any experience with these?

Big thanks in advance!


Many consider Don Norman, the author of The Design of Everyday Things, father of modern UX design. If you want to absorb the basic principles of usability, you should read it.


Thanks for sharing. Will go get that one soon!

Does it primarily focus on usability or also on beauty? I am slowly finding out that often less is more when it comes to UX design, also in the way things look, and would love to find out more of these principles that can vastly improve the looks of a product (e.g. what colors to use, shapes, etc.)

Thanks again!


This book is about UX. That is not how "it looks" but how "it feels". I think for UI, as mentioned in other comments you might want to check out https://refactoringui.com/


Hi Muzani,

So I do not even want to get to building at this stage. I just want to get a landingpage in front of the right folks, collect some emails, and see if I can talk to them. I have some broad ideas on products I'd like to work on but have made the mistake in the past many a times before where I just start building something people do not really care about. So right now I am trying to figure out the best way to just get in touch with these people. I have done some AdWords (freaking expensive in the market I am in) and going through subreddits which seem to help. Next stop is trying to find some people on Quora that seem to experience the problem.

Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts!


Hi!

Thanks for sharing. Yeah I totally get you. Have been very dependent on Google with another project of mine and it's not great. But right now I am more trying to figure out how to just get a bunch of (target) people in front of my MVP (which is really just a landing page) for another idea, just so I can start to talk to them.

I feel a landing page is probably not enough to post on HN or PH but paying Google for ads is also so, so. The other thing I have been trying is going to related subreddits and that seem to bring in at least some feedback (maybe not super specific to what I am doing, but in general).


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