Asaf Gerchak
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Asaf Gerchak
@CoderOfNote
Learning & Development Manager / snack-eater at @junocollege. I speak code to computers & jokes to humans. Check out that second thing @ComedianOfNote (he/him)
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@flglmn @joolsd @kalinah Heard an interestingly similar idea about movies set in non-English-speaking places, where actors speak English w "local" accents; it isn't accurate, but viewers are immersed (ie. no subtitle reading) while also giving a sense of this being a "foreign" (ie. not English) place.
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in the appendices Tolkien says that the characters are not *actually* called what they appear to be called in the text, that he has translated their "real names" into approximately similar english names, eg samwise gamgee is really banazir galbasi
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People love making this joke about Dune, where it makes no real sense since that it's set in the future & many common names now are thousands of years old, but not for LOTR, where it's much weirder for a guy to be called Tom.
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@DarwinLyons I have to decide how comfortable I am repeating "no, it's not an emoji" 247258258 times
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@CoderOfNote That would be a very effective business card
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A number of replies here, and elsewhere generally, are along the lines of "bootcamps aren't worth it bc the material is all available for free online."
I think this fundamentally misunderstands what coding bootcamps (and all schools) offer and what students get out of them
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Did you attend a bootcamp? Teach at a bootcamp? Explore the option but decide not to enroll? Tell us all about your experience 👇
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@CoderOfNote Also, instructors helping you find that one semicolon that broke your code is worth the price of admission (also the community... but for real trying to find that one semicolon as a newbie coder is enough to make you give up)
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It's worth adding that our program also includes really phenomenal career services to help grads find good jobs, which is another big appeal.
Not all bootcamps offer this, and even for others who do I can't speak to what it's like, but ours is really great.
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(I feel the need to clarify that Juno College is holding absolutely no ice cream sundae bars as long as there is a pandemic. On top of being unsafe, it would just be impractical; my research indicates that masks block upwards of 100% of caramel syrup.)
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