Coding
Back-End Web Development
In this course students turn ideas into working applications by learning the fundamentals of programming with Ruby and Ruby on Rails.
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Jeffrey Dickey
Software Engineer, Carbon Five
Los Angeles
Jeff Dickey, a full stack web developer with extensive startup experience in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Jeff has started projects, maintained large enterprise systems and lead development teams. He brings a developer's perspective and enjoys pragmatism and action while avoiding red tape.
Education is the most important quality in Jeff's life, both and a teacher and a student. He surrounds himself with those smarter than myself to learn as much as possible. His experience teaching has greatly helped his communication skills with less technical people and is incredibly rewarding as well.
Outside of work, Jeff is the teacher for the Back-End Web Development course at General Assembly Los Angeles and Lead Organizer for the LA Code for America brigade. Through teaching and civic hacking, he hopes to help others solve problems both in business and civic hacking.
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