Hi, I'm Jeff Casimir from Jumpstart Lab, director of the program. I'll do my best to answer questions here over the coming days if you have them, or ping me directly at contact at jumpstartlab.com
Sure. All 24 of the apprentices were hired to the LivingSocial build team. They're about three months into their work now and are succeeding.
Sure, some have moved faster than others, but no one is doing intern work. One is working on rebuilding the payment system, another wrote the single-sign-on app that now every LivingSocial customer logs in through. The other 22 stories are similar.
Instructionally there were things that could have been better. We didn't do a good job cultivating our "permanent records" and didn't fulfill our plans for sharing everything we did. It's all there, but you'd need a tour guide to hop through all the disparate github repos. Apprentices made some great open source contributions (including Ruby core), but I want it to be more organized next time. These are two of the reasons that we've expanded from two instructors to three.
All in all, it far surpassed my expectations. And the next course, gSchool, will be better.
hey jeff, Im die hard fan of you,I wanna get in! is there any payment arrangement so i can payback the tuition monthly? and what would be different compare to HungryAcademy ? any advantage or disadvantage ?