<div dir="ltr">I've been working as a TA at Makers Academy for the past two weeks, and it's been an excellent learning experience for me. If you're a developer and want to really hone your understanding of the craft, nothing beats having to explain it to other people. MA lets you do that in a friendly, relaxed environment and then they pay you for it. Couldn't recommend them enough as a place to work.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 7:05 PM, Evgeny Shadchnev <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:evgeny.shadchnev@gmail.com" target="_blank">evgeny.shadchnev@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<br><br><a href="http://www.makersacademy.com/" target="_blank">Makers Academy</a> is an intensive, 12 week, full-time course in web development.<div>
<br><div><div>I'm looking for<b> two teaching assistants</b> to help the teachers:</div>
<div>- 1-2 years of Ruby and RoR experience, including TDD</div><div>- Passion for clean, eloquent code</div><div>- Great interpersonal skills</div></div><div><br></div><div>We teach complete beginners how to code and place them into junior web developmer jobs. Our grads have been hired as full-time developers by New Bamboo, Funding Circle, BSkyB, Enternships, Global Personals, and other companies. They built <a href="https://www.seederboard.com/" target="_blank">Seederboard</a> and <a href="https://www.beanandground.co.uk/" target="_blank">Bean&Ground</a>.<br>
<br>Here's what our grads say:<br>- "<a href="http://blog.makersacademy.com/from-west-end-theatre-to-coding-everyday/" target="_blank">One month after graduating I accepted a great offer from an awesome London Tech Company</a>"<br>
- "<a href="http://blog.makersacademy.com/from-travel-agent-to-developer-at-bskyb/" target="_blank">It is scary but do it sooner rather then later!</a>"<div>- "<a href="http://blog.makersacademy.com/from-sales-marketing-to-web-development/" target="_blank">If you work hard and take the plunge and show dedication it will work!</a>"</div>
<div><br></div><div>Our hiring partners say that they are "<a href="http://blog.makersacademy.com/what-a-hiring-partner-think-about-makers-academy/" target="_blank">consistently blown away by the calibre [we]’re producing</a>".</div>
<div><div><br></div><div>We change people's lives for the better. We have more students applying to MA than we can teach, so we need more teachers to help our team of eight.</div></div><div><br></div><div>You'll be either pairing with our students on our <a href="http://www.makersacademy.com/info/curriculum" target="_blank">curriculum</a>, helping them to become developers or writing code for our online learning platform <a href="http://blog.makersacademy.com/atlas-is-live/" target="_blank">Atlas</a>. We pay a market salary + stock options, don't track days off and welcome internal transparency (email me if you want details). We're backed by top investors, profitable and growing.</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you would like to see how far a beginner can get in only 12 weeks, please come to the <b>graduation ceremony</b> of the September cohort <a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/xmas-graduation-tickets-9280587487" target="_blank">tomorrow at 1530</a>. The students will be presenting their final projects that they've built in the last 2 weeks of the course. One of them involves controlling fireworks using Raspberry Pi and websockets – the demo will be awesome :) The link is: <a href="http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/xmas-graduation-tickets-9280587487" target="_blank">http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/xmas-graduation-tickets-9280587487</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you, lrug :)</div><div><br></div><div>Evgeny</div><div>Co-founder, Makers Academy</div></div></div></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Ali, <a href="http://happybearsoftware.com" target="_blank">http://happybearsoftware.com</a></div>
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