Pragmatic Hack News - notable news for beginner programmers and junior hackers

Learning to code? A business co-founder? These news entries may be of interest for you. Dubbed: junior hacker news for a new breed of hackers: social hackers (as in social drinker).  Recommended moments:

Codecademy
The Code of Life - NYTimes
New York Times journalist write about the journey to learn to code on Codecademy and beyond. Couldn't have summarized it better: "Now, I was never going to be a career programmer. Though I got into it with the idea of getting myself out of a financial pinch, it turned out to be unnecessary... But my code year changed me. Whenever I meet someone involved in technology — which is pretty much everyone these days — I have a real understanding of what they’re talking about..."

New Codecademy mobile app reviewed on this blog.

And did you see NYTimes illustrative interpretation of Codecademy's famous beginner lessons? It's pretty epic.

Design
What designing in a startup is really like? Here's a video for it! That's like one picture worth a thousand words with 10,000 frames.

what #design process at #startup actually looks like http://t.co/mZHUOFfgBD @Quibb
— Sun (@i_stanford) December 16, 2013

Bootcamp
The Truth about Hack Schools - Fast Company By Alice Truong
CodeSumBlog also scored a mention! I talked about Coding Dojo

Can hack schools solve Silicon Valley's talent crunch? The truth about coding bootcamps and the students left behind http://t.co/xXNfqNuDLW
— Alice Truong (@alicetruong) December 17, 2013

Alice wrote a comprehensive one-page guide to bootcamps web and mobile, cheap and expensive in the bay area. It's suitable for all candidates considering web development or mobile development bootcamps. Covering both the bright and dark sides, Alice scored multiple interviews with important peer-level voices and also founders and staff of Hackbright, Dev Bootcamp and Coding Dojo.





Peer voices to follow when learning about bootcamps in the Bay Area and Mobilemakers in Chicago.

For #bootcamp? Follow @alicetruong @SarahHCarl @JamesJetsOften @grio_sf @TonyWuHL @thisgirlangie @NatashaTheRobot @saeedjabbar @chibicode
— Sun (@i_stanford) December 17, 2013

Hour of Code
Our coverage of Codecademy's new mobile app and President Obama's inspirational speech on learning how to code.