Hacker School

Hacker School is now the Recurse Center. Follow us there for updates! Read more about the reasons for our name change here: https://www.recurse.com/blog/77-hacker-school-is-now-the-recurse-center

Hacker School is now the Recurse Center - Blog - the Recurse Center Hacker School is now the Recurse Center Today, we’re correcting one of our oldest and biggest mistakes: We’re changing our name from Hacker School to the Recurse Center. While catchy, “Hacker School” has always been an actively bad name for us. Both words are problematic and misleading. “Hacker” is…

We had a good run, but it's time to say goodbye to Paper of the Week: https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/75-goodbye-paper-of-the-week

Goodbye Paper of the Week - Blog - Hacker School Goodbye Paper of the Week This is the last post in our “Paper of the Week” series. For more info, check out the introductory blog post. We’ve decided to stop publishing Paper of the Week. Paper of the Week has been fun to write, but we don’t think it’s worth continuing given the limited response we’…

Making text games in the terminal can get weird: https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/74-a-string-of-unexpected-lengths

A string of unexpected lengths - Blog - Hacker School A string of unexpected lengths When you start learning to program, or working in a new language, it’s often suggested that you build a simple program like Battleship or Tic-tac-toe. The games' rules are well-defined and easy to grasp, and you only need to read and print text to get started. This fre…

Curious about what people do at Hacker School? Check out a few examples of what people have done in just the past few weeks. https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/54-what-people-do-at-hacker-school-nov-14

What people do at Hacker School (Nov 2014) - Blog - Hacker School What people do at Hacker School (Nov 2014) This is a follow-up to my earlier post, What people do at Hacker School. As before, the goal is to answer the deceptively simple question of what people do at Hacker School. Because Hacker School projects are as diverse as Hacker Schoolers themselves, the b…

Thanks to the support of Etsy, Juniper Networks, Fog Creek Software, betaworks, Perka and Stripe we're happy to announce that we are now offering need-based grants for living expenses to people from groups that are historically underrepresented in programming. Read more about the program here: https://www.hackerschool.com/diversity

Diversity - Hacker School Hacker School has gotten better as our community has grown to include more women, trans people, genderqueer people, older people, younger people, parents, and people from a greater range of racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Introducing overlapping batches at Hacker School!

Overlapping batches - Blog - Hacker School Overlapping batches Hacker Schoolers have helped to define a lot of what makes Hacker School great. This is true both in the obvious sense that Hacker School is fundamentally composed of the people who participate in it, but also in the deeper sense that they organize and create many of the things t…

If you know anyone who this job might be a good fit for, please send them our way.

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/35-were-hiring-an-operations-person

We're hiring an operations person - Blog - Hacker School We're hiring an operations person We want to hire an operations person. Up until now, everyone we've hired has been a programmer and a Hacker School alum. We've done many hundreds of programming interviews, but we haven't interviewed for non-technical roles before, so this is uncharted territory for...

We wrote a blog post about some of the mistakes we've made, and what we do differently now.

https://www.hackerschool.com/blog/34-mistakes-weve-made

Mistakes we've made - Blog - Hacker School Mistakes we've made We've made a lot of mistakes over the past three years of Hacker School. Sometimes our bad decisions are immediately obvious, but sometimes they're more subtle and it's only with time, feedback, and reflection that we realize we've screwed up. These mistakes are like poor archite...