ShowHN: I learned to code and got a job in less than a year. Here is my ebook.

  • > @devbootcamp graduate

    Thought this was going to be about someone who was self-taught in under a year until I saw that part.

    Dev Bootcamp is an amazing program and pretty much guarantees you a job if you make it through (at least from what I've heard). But it's only in San Francisco, and they take what, 20 people every few weeks? Not exactly a path that everyone can follow...

    Edit: Just realized this was posted by the author, so here's my concern: Considering the fact that you went through a fairly intense 9-week program taught by several experts, how can we be confident your book is useful to beginners who lack that option? The excerpt on your page seems more like a promo for programming/entrepreneurship -- it doesn't tell much about the book or add to your credibility as someone who could teach people to program.

  • Congrats on your journey from learning to code through to landing a job and congratulations on the book.

    That being said, you might want to at least provide a sample of your writing from the book for people to look at.

  • Has anyone read it? Any unique approaches here or just the usual recipe - focus and time?

  • In a very humorous series of events, while checking my RSS feeds I read [this](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4843795) immediately before seeing this title.

  • At least the Table of Contents would be useful. Maybe the 1st Chapter or something?

  • did you start learning it by yourself (i.e, watching videos or reading books) or did you attend devbootcamp first?

  • Seems like a much better investment than college, imo. Unless your passion drives you elsewhere.