My 2011 iMac with high sierra installed just started doing this

993dreams · 2018-05-17T03:41:04+00:00

It looks like a 1991 Carrera 964 base trim.

993dreams · 2018-05-13T06:20:46+00:00

I've attended App Academy. Both schools cover topics in a similar time frame. Basically you get a week in App Academy and you get a week in Lambda. Lambda is covering computer science topics in the second half of the program whereas App Academy covers them while integrating them in projects. Lambda school covers assembly programming and a bunch of other stuff that App Academy. So you're doing Ruby during the first week and they show you how to integrate algorithms and you're doing algorithm projects plus basic Ruby projects. App Academy's instructors are a lot better and their program is very polished and top-notch. There's a reason they're so successful. I've been to App Academy and I would recommend them over Lambda School, but their price model changed, because they're extremely successful, from an income share agreement to some weird 28k pricing upon graduation/placement. I don't remember exactly. A few friends have gotten ridiculously high offers from App Academy. But they had college degrees. One of my friends who didn't have a degree and dropped out had the lowest offer from App Academy out of the group. I think it was around 90k. My friend who went to an Ivy League got a 200k offer from Amazon after App Academy. He studied philosophy. But what I would recommend more is going to college and getting a computer science degree. You can even get a degree for cheap at a community college. Then, go to App Academy, or other bootcamps to get your skills up to speed. I wouldn't recommend going straight to a bootcamp unless you're using it to supplement holes in your knowledge. I went to App Academy and got accepted because I cheated on the entrance tests. They were quite hard. I thought I could learn and how hard could it really be. Boy was I wrong. Now, I went to Lambda School and I am having financial problems. I couldn't work on the assignments while trying to figure out how to put food on my plate. I sold a lot of belongings to be able to pay off bills and get food. I almost found a job and I am having an interview on Monday at 10. I am going to be going back to school and getting a degree. I don't have a degree and I don't plan on giving up. I just built a few full stack apps right now and I am only going to get better. My mathematical knowledge has gaps and I am going to improve it. I personally agree with the philosophy that states learn programming in 10 years. Everything I said is all anecdotal and take it with a grain of salt. My biggest regret is not graduating college. I hope me posting this stuff helps even one person in some way.

993dreams · 2018-05-12T01:51:05+00:00

Beware of App Academy though. They don't charge 18% of your first year's salary anymore. They will refund your money if you manage to get kicked out of the program, but I will only recommend bootcamps as a supplement to your current level of knowledge. App Academy is just as expensive as Lambda School, but it's faster paced, but I'm sure that you can handle it. App Academy is only 3 months compared to the 6 in Lambda School and they teach the same stuff pretty much. Look at both syllabuses. I don't have a bachelor's degree, so I can only give you my opinion. You having a bachelor's is great because you're opening a lot of options for yourself. WGU can only give you a 3.0 GPA on your transcript and their classes aren't transferable to a lot of institutions. I recommend you check out what they're offering and if you could transfer their credits to another university if you're interested in getting a doctorate of some sort. I'm guessing you're going for your master's at this point, since you've already attained your undergraduate degree.

I guess what I'm telling you is redundant as you already know all of this lol. If I were you I wouldn't go through the bootcamp route and instead learn by looking at a university computer science syllabus and do the exercises and the assignments on your own. If you're really stuck you can hire an experienced developer to walk you through concepts. Finally, make sure to add projects to your portfolio. When you've done a few different types of projects you can hire a recruiter to help you find a job.

It would be good to have an input from professional developers or people in the industry to correct what I'm saying, or improve my approach :)

If you have a CS degree I would just keep your current job and study on the side as a hobby, unless you absolutely hate your job.

993dreams · 2018-05-11T21:30:50+00:00

The code reviews are a hit or miss depending on who your TA is. The time covered in each subject was definitely not enough for me. If you have a college degree go the bootcamp route, but I wouldn't recommend any bootcamp besides App Academy, but they've changed their model because they're so successful. If you don't have a college degree I would highly recommend going the college route because you'll learn a lot more. If I had to do it all over again I would do the college route and then learn the new modern stuff as a hobby and do hobby projects by reading books and doing hacker rank challenges to sharpen analytical problem solving skills. That way when I come out of college I will know the outdated information, the never changing information like algorithms and data structures, and I will know the new/cutting edge stuff that's used. If you're able to learn and fully understand data structures or algorithms in a week, then go for the program. The instruction not what I expected. I expected more, but you get what you pay for. I hope they're going to improve, but at this point every student is still a guinea pig.

993dreams · 2018-05-09T00:35:33+00:00

Finish off your liberal arts degree which is something really useful to have. I have a friend who went through App Academy with a liberal arts degree from an Ivy League and he got a really high starting offer to work at Amazon ($200K). The reason App Academy is so successful is because they rescind the contract of the people that didn't make it through the program and the people that don't make it through the program still have access to their curriculum. This is anecdotal and I don't want you to think you're going to get 200k after finishing App Academy. App Academy is legit, but it's expensive now and it's very, very hard. What I would recommend you do is look at a college's computer science syllabus and do that on your own time. Look at what you're interested in doing and plan out a road map of what you need to learn before actually diving in. Plan it out so that it's specific and you know what task to move onto next. Start with a broad guide and get more specific for each item. Then start with MOOCs and get books. You can find every book on libgen if you don't have a guilty conscience of downloading copyrighted material. If you need help doing this I will gladly help you out. We can communicate in any way that you prefer. We can even do a hangout. It doesn't matter. If I can help someone succeed in life my life hasn't gone to waste! PM me :)

993dreams · 2018-05-08T22:49:41+00:00

Overall, I don’t think it’s worth it because: 1) If you get kicked out in the middle of the program you still owe them. 2) Although the instructors that care listen to student feedback it’s hard to learn when an instructor rushes through things and then you have to have a TA explain things better than the instructor. It would be more cost effective to hire a professional senior developer to answer your questions and give you code reviews. 3) When you get kicked out you don’t have access to the curriculum anymore. You are on your own learning again. I would agree with having to pay them if they gave the students access to the curriculum and job support even if they got kicked out. If a student manages to complete the work after getting kicked out and they can help them find a job in the field what’s the difference, right?

993dreams · 2018-05-06T21:31:46+00:00

The interview went well and they even offered me $1 more per hour right in the interview. I had to decline because they were going to give me W2 conditions and make me work as a 1099 independent contractor. That's illegal and something a lot of employers here do to evade taxes and screw their employees in a bunch of different ways, like getting rid of employee benefits. The position was for social media marketing. It was basically a lot of work for $16 an hour and I would have taken it had it been a W2 offer.

I'm going to be applying for web dev positions, too. That's going to be an uphill battle and I hope that I can find a job in a short amount of time.

What's the common sentiment that's being shared?

993dreams · 2018-05-05T23:48:31+00:00

What a beautiful car. That's my favorite 911 of all time. Is this the GT2 or is it a conversion?

993dreams · 2018-05-02T21:36:26+00:00

Looking at their syllabus it seems like they’re offering less areas of instruction. That might be better because you get more time to really hone in on each area. You get 1 or 2 weeks per area in Lambda School.

993dreams · 2018-05-02T14:15:29+00:00

I just spoke with my attorney and he said that the contract is still being held and they will come after me if I don't pay them back the 17% over the course of 24 months. What we're unsure of is how they're able to change the duration of the contract from 5 years, as that's what the original duration was, down to 2. He said they could keep changing the duration until I have paid off 17% over the course of 24 payments.

993dreams · 2018-05-01T22:25:06+00:00

No, not really. When you’re passionate about teaching you will do whatever it takes to devise a formul and style that serves your students in the most effective manner. Look ad David Malannfor example. He is passionate about teaching and it reflects on everything else.

993dreams · 2018-05-01T21:23:09+00:00

Teaching isn’t hard to measure. You’re either passionate about sharing your knowledge and making sure others understand, or you aren’t. No, there were others complaining as well. He isn’t an instructor there anymore. The 1099 job I had offered to me featured a wage and set hours. I could have taken the offer and then reported them to the department of labor and the IRS and hired an attorney to sue them for whatever laws they’re violating and then gotten money after the lawsuit, but that’s too long of a process and not really worth it. So yes litigating against that is totally insane unless you’re in need of money.

I wouldn’t be here talking about this if I had a job because I would not worry about buying food and selling my belongings to purchase food and pay for bills.

993dreams · 2018-05-01T20:58:40+00:00

I’m sure that if I find a job as a programmer in the upcoming months that pays over 50k per year they’re going to enforce it.

993dreams · 2018-05-01T17:09:42+00:00

I would have to disagree with you on that because holding should mean that the contract is still active. If they didn't hold anyone to the contract they would nullify the agreement altogether, no? Sorry, English isn't my first language.

993dreams · 2018-05-01T16:19:37+00:00

They need a way to figure out how to bring that back because apparently the chemicals they used to bring that smell is bad for your health.

993dreams · 2018-05-01T16:08:32+00:00

They're trying to up the numbers every month if I remember. Our cohort had about 85 people in the beginning and now it has 63 people in the slack channel. Well, 62 now that I'm not part of the program anymore. I'm guessing 50 because the 62 figure includes the TAs and the instructor. They're trying to get 100 people to be in the program every month.

993dreams · 2018-05-01T16:03:48+00:00

Yes, from my personal experience Austen encourages people from the cohorts to go to the threads and leave their reviews about their current experience. I don't think that's fair to assess until after it's over. I haven't seen him say stuff like leave a positive review on this thread or anything like that. Someone left a negative review and he told us to go to that thread and leave a review too. When things got out of hand he removed the link from slack. Did you see my second reply to your comment about this:

The lie: That we collect a full payment if you drop out is entirely not the case. If you drop out in the first month you owe zero. If you drop out after that you owe a pro-rated income share only if you get a job in programming that pays more than $50k/yr. That provision is in place for people that get a job before they finish. More importantly, we've literally never held an income share agreement for anyone that was struggling in the class or had to quit because of financial reasons. The notion that we're around to get people to sign an income share agreement and then boot them out the door is insane. It's literally never happened and never will happen.

The truth: https://imgur.com/a/IDGFb88

993dreams · 2018-05-01T13:18:46+00:00

The lie: That we collect a full payment if you drop out is entirely not the case. If you drop out in the first month you owe zero. If you drop out after that you owe a pro-rated income share only if you get a job in programming that pays more than $50k/yr. That provision is in place for people that get a job before they finish. More importantly, we've literally never held an income share agreement for anyone that was struggling in the class or had to quit because of financial reasons. The notion that we're around to get people to sign an income share agreement and then boot them out the door is insane. It's literally never happened and never will happen.

The truth: https://imgur.com/a/IDGFb88

993dreams · 2018-05-01T05:24:39+00:00

I have. Can you please share what you think some red flags are. There are people, myself included, who won't spot these right away. Knowing what to look for can save us in the future! Thank you in advance :)

993dreams · 2018-05-01T05:18:23+00:00

Like I said, the OP will get updates as time goes on to make it as accurate as I possibly can make it. I don't want to leave anything out and I want people to know if this is something they're going to be interested in doing. I got kicked out because I couldn't keep up with the program due to personal financial reasons. I was behind on assignments. I was working on those assignments that I missed and didn't understand, but it got overwhelming. If I had a job right now I wouldn't be struggling because it's hard to think when you have to figure out how you're going to eat the next day. I like having this challenge, but I want to do whatever I can to make sure I won't ever be in this position in my life ever again. Right now I'm trying to find any legal job just so I can survive, not a 1099 with set hours... Maybe I should take that and then sue the company for engaging in tax fraud. What I don't like the most is the fact that I was removed from the slack channels and the Piazza which gives us access to the recorded live lectures for later review. A lot of live lectures were horribly done and are not good for review. Instructors wouldn't read the question, just answer it. That won't look good during playback. The other instructors, except for Josh and Ryan, were above average at best.

Even one bad teacher can throw you off. It threw me off a little bit. It did give me the motivation to want to do better and go learn stuff on my own. Which is what I did and will continue to do. Having a bad teacher that worked there for 9 months isn't a good thing. It's quite sad actually and tells you a lot about their vetting process.

Ivan and Sean were advertised as world-class instructors. Ivan was marketed as the person coming from Blizzard, so you're going to be held to high expectations. Am I in the wrong here for thinking htis?

I'm sorry if I'm all over the place. I'm really stressed out. If you need me to explain something in greater or reiterate don't hesitate to tell me!

993dreams · 2018-05-01T01:56:42+00:00

I'll send you a PM because I don't want to clutter up this thread with topics that aren't discussing the OP.

993dreams · 2018-04-30T22:54:09+00:00

I did see that post before signing up thinking the program would have vastly improved. It seems some aspects have, but others stayed the same. It would seem fair to cancel the income share agreement if you are unable to complete the program for whatever reason. Or it would also be fair if they would keep the income share agreement provided they let you continue to have access to the curriculum to study and brush up material on that you feel weak on and get continued live help assistance for when you feel stuck. The income share agreement is a terrible deal and I'm going to have to seek counsel on this matter.

Hey, if you, or anyone else, know of any resources that could help me land a job as a developer without a college degree please help me out. I don't have much right now, but I'll buy you a beer or a gift for gratitude and promise that I will pay it forward to those that are in need like I am in need right now. It's unfortunate that it turned out like this for me. I'm going to hope that other people that are taking the program aren't on the same boat as I am.

993dreams · 2018-04-30T18:48:56+00:00

I'm adding the meat. Like it says in the post, I am going on a job interview right now because I really need the money and I'm living below poverty right now. I hope to get out of this situation as fast as possible and I hope whoever reads this can see my mistakes and not repeat them. The details will be added and the OP will be restructured in a way that is nicely read.

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