David Delmar is the founder and executive director at Resilient Coders and formerly was a design lead at PayPal. Resilient Coders’ mission is simple:  they take students from traditionally under-served communities and teach them the skills needed to be web developers during an eight-week boot camp. Upon completing the boot camp, Resilient Coders helps connect them to job opportunites.

 

In this episode, David talks about:

 

When he first recognized the need for a program like Resilient Coders at a conference

 

How they designed the curriculum for the boot camp

 

Lessons he took away from MassChallenge

 

Attributes and characteristics found in great coders

 

Links from today’s episode:

 

David Delmar

 

Resilient Coders

 

Resilient Bootcamp

 

Resilient Lab

 

Adobe Illustrator

 

ArtLifting

 

Redbooth

 

Trello

 

HubSpot

 

Between the World and Me

 

Strangers in Their Own Land

 

The Lean Startup

 

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