wrote: > But I guess nobody would be willing to pay $10,000 for something so > boring as programming knowledge ... >=20 >=20 > But $10k would buy you a killer computer, plenty of books and pay for = a years hosting to practice with :) >=20 --Apple-Mail=_39741A92-27A5-43C9-8F11-CB7B950FC1A5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Hah! = I got every available upgrade option and bought 3rd party RAM for my = 2011 MBP (currently runs 16GB of RAM) like hi-res screen, fastest CPU = they offered, etc etc. Cost me, even with the 3rd party RAM purchase, = just a hair under $4000. Spent another 200 on books, and you don't have = to pay for hosting anywhere with heroku, appfog.com, or Amazon's = AWS.

You could spend more like $4500 at max and = have everything you need, including a year enrolled at codecademy.com and all the courses = for Ruby, RSpec, Rails, HTML+CSS, etc you could = want!

Paying $10,000 for a non-accredited = school's programming course when their focus isn't even really to teach = you the language but to teach you the 'essence' of programming.. = insane!

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"The bug which you would fright me = with I seek" - William Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale, Act = III, Scene II - A court of Justice.

On Dec 18, 2012, at 5:26 AM, Peter Hickman <peterhickman386@googlemail.= com> wrote:

On 18 December 2012 09:43, Jan E. <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
But I guess nobody would be willing to pay $10,000 for something so
boring as programming knowledge ...

But $10k would buy you a killer computer, plenty of books and = pay for a years hosting to practice with :)

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