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        <title><![CDATA[Stories by Gero Nikolov on Medium]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Coding academies? How about NO!]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2016 12:50:34 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/1*ViisqNr3fZ9oQnVbkho8sA.jpeg" /></figure><p>Don’t call me a hater but here I’ll share you why I think all those “coding academies” are stupid, useless and big waste of money &amp; time…</p><h3>First of all what is academy?</h3><p>By the word academy you know we are going to speak for place where you are going to learn something new and something which is going to be useful. But… But… I doesn’t work that way…</p><p>For some sh*tty reason in 2016 everyone started to call themselves “teacher”, “mentor” and everything that you can relate to this… And that wasn’t the end… Every second person “created” their personal <strong>coding academy startup </strong>(excuse me if there is more <em>hipsterical </em>way to say it).</p><p>In that whole thing there is nothing bad…</p><h3>Except the problem</h3><p>First too many <em>“teachers”</em> means too many people who don’t really knew what they are doing with their lives.</p><p>Second too many <em>“academies” </em>are causing <strong>BIG </strong>misunderstanding in the end user → the students of those ‘cademies.</p><p>So those users are starting to think which one is better and which one should they choose? And in the end they stop on the cheapest academy, this produce poor employees who want a lot in exchange for nothing and that causes another problem… <strong>The problem of broken dreams, wasted time &amp; money.</strong></p><p><strong><em>Guess what?</em></strong></p><p>You can renew your dreams, your money but the <strong>time, </strong>it is limited and once you’ve wasted it… <strong>It’s gone!</strong></p><h3>So don’t waste your time!</h3><p>If you choose to go on those courses let me share with you what you’ll learn…</p><p>There you won’t learn different things from the basics of any programming language… By the basics I mean the things which are open sourced all around the web, the things which everyone can find freely… That is what pisses me off <strong>sooo much</strong>.</p><p><strong>You’ll ask: How to learn those things then?</strong></p><p>First and most important thing which you have to learn is to learn <strong>How to use Google! </strong>Come on we are living in 2016, you don’t need a personal teacher to teach you how to create Hello World…</p><p><strong>Did I’ve managed to change your thinking?!</strong></p><p>If the answer is still no… The last thing that left is to share with you the course lectures for <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzcaJerzFqSeMW1DZm9TdXBXM00?usp=sharing"><strong>Introducing to C programming language</strong></a><strong> </strong>which I’ve created before some time, for a course from this type…</p><p>Take a look at them and get to know what to expect from the <strong><em>fancy coding ‘cademies…</em></strong></p><p>Aaand that’s it… I’ve thrown all of my hate… Find me on <a href="http://dloober.com/">Dloober.</a> Cheers!</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=54ae6ef3164c" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thinking about Medium …]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2016 16:29:41 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What is Medium?</p><p>Is it good or is it bad?</p><p>How it works?</p><p>Why it works?</p><p>Who uses it?</p><p>When he / she uses it?</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=793c1f6c26fa" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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