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Reinventing The Bootcamp Idea

DamirSvrtan
November 14, 2016

Reinventing The Bootcamp Idea

Fueled by discontent for the lack of real-world coding knowledge traditional academia provides, we decided to organize and run free software development bootcamp in Croatia. It's called Infinum Academy, it's a month long course in building Rails, iOS and Android from scratch. We built the curriculum using our own best-practices and 10-years worth of industry knowledge. The talk is about how we ran the bootcamp, how our company almost fell apart in the process, what we learned, why we burned twice as much time as we estimated, and how came up victorious in the end.

DamirSvrtan

November 14, 2016
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  1. 0 30 60 90 120 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

    INFINUM Employee growth
  2. Curriculum Intro to Ruby Intro to Rails Active Record Action

    View Authentication Optimisations /ActionMailer / Image Upload API Testing
  3. Curriculum Intro to Ruby Intro to Rails Active Record Action

    View Authentication Optimisations /ActionMailer / Image Upload API Testing
  4. Curriculum Intro to Ruby Intro to Rails Active Record Action

    View Authentication Optimisations /ActionMailer / Image Upload API Testing
  5. Curriculum Intro to Ruby Intro to Rails Active Record Action

    View Authentication Optimisations /ActionMailer / Image Upload API Testing
  6. Curriculum Intro to Ruby Intro to Rails Active Record Action

    View Authentication Optimisations /ActionMailer / Image Upload API Testing
  7. Curriculum Intro to Ruby Intro to Rails Active Record Action

    View Authentication Optimisations /ActionMailer / Image Upload API Testing
  8. Curriculum Intro to Ruby Intro to Rails Active Record Action

    View Authentication Optimisations /ActionMailer / Image Upload API Testing
  9. Curriculum Intro to Ruby Intro to Rails Active Record Action

    View Authentication Optimisations /ActionMailer / Image Upload API Testing
  10. Curriculum Intro to Ruby Intro to Rails Active Record Action

    View Authentication Optimisations /ActionMailer / Image Upload API Testing
  11. let(:post) { create(:post) } ... it 'creates a post' do

    post :create, post: { title: 'Hello World' } expect(response).to be_success end
  12. “The Academy was oriented on practical work and it was

    the first time I had specific feedback on the code I wrote.”
  13. “In a month, I’ve learned more useful things than three-years-worth

    of college, and I had no previous experience in the technology.”
  14. Damir Svrtan Rails Team Lead @ Infinum Organizer @ Ruby

    Zagreb @DamirSvrtan www.infinum.co