Three-month retreats in NYC for people who want to get better at programming. Limited cost-of-living grants are available for accepted participants from underrepresented groups. The (experimental) profit model is based on companies who pay to recruit the program's participants and alumni.
Background I've been to a few talks on SOLID before. Most of the principles seem pretty reasonable to me – but I've never "got" the open-closed principle (OCP from here on). At CodeMash this year, I mentioned this to the wonderful Cori Drew, who said that she'd been at a user group talk where she…
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