Creating a beacon of light in your small corner of the world
summary
Describes a community-built training pipeline that becomes hiring fodder: a volunteer Android Academy runs a 12–14 week curriculum with weekly workshops, homework grading and GitHub reviews; two in-person runs draw ~150 applications, 45 attendees and ~30 finishers, with more than 60 landing first internships or jobs. Pandemic pivot uses RayWenderlich content to run an online Android and iOS bootcamp (hundreds of applicants, 80 accepted, >50% graduate), coordinated via Discord and published materials.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:35What is Google Developer Extra
- 3:10The philosophy of life
- 5:43The community
- 7:06The Android Academy
- 10:16Building the Android Academy
- 16:14Impact of the Android Academy
- 17:30The Android iOS Bootcamp
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