Anthony Delgado anthonydelgado

How Dev Bootcamp Teaches: ActiveRecord

I'm Jesse, one of the co-founders of Dev Bootcamp, and the acting curricular editor-in-chief. We get lots of questions about how Dev Bootcamp approaches teaching, what our curriculum is like, and how it differs from other schools and competitors. I thought I'd share some of that with you, starting with a brief overview of our theory of learning and then sharing our introduction to ActiveRecord.

Update As of August, 2013, I'm no longer at Dev Bootcamp. I'm now working on CodeUnion to help people learn new technical skills without putting their lives on hold. I wrote everything below myself and I can't actually vouch for whether any of it reflects DBC's current approach. It definitely reflects our approach at CodeUnion, though. If you want to know more, please reach out: jesse@codeunion.io :)

This will be light on theory and hea

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