App Academy: Free nine week iOS course

Looks interesting, but there are a few lingering questions remain:<p>1) Where will the academy be located at? Do you already have the logistics covered? If so, could you share some of these details? (Location/Photos of area/etc)<p>2) You mention that the Summer program is free to build up excitement for the fall session, but later you mention you will try to help find the developer a position. Are you acting as a recruiter, taking a % of the first year salary?<p>3) Could you go over in a little more detail the schedule of the class? You mention starting in ruby and moving over to Objective C and iOS, but don't really delve any deeper. You mention that "No programming experience [is] required", so I'd imagine there would be quite a few weeks of basic stuff.

If no programming experience required, What are the other prerequisites for this course? Can anyone without a collage degree join ? Do you think person with zero programming experience with just 9 weeks of study get $80k salary ?

All the good stuff is on the west coast.. I'd murder a unicorn to have this available in Philadelphia.

This is great. Especially with services like Parse out there, I could see how a sufficiently motivated/creative person could start from zero programming experience and become a skilled iOS developer in the course of a summer.

For the fall session, is the $1,000 discount* for female candidates legal?<p>*<a href="http://www.hashmaplabs.com/app_academy/program" rel="nofollow">http://www.hashmaplabs.com/app_academy/program</a>

I'm interested to know why age is one of the required fields. Will there be any preference given to people who are either "old enough" or "young enough?"<p>Making something like that required without disclosing why it's being asked seems like an invitation for people to supply false information in hopes of not being passed over for an arbitrary reason like their age.

This looks great. I applied. Will you guys help with housing or perhaps providing it would be great. You know what would be awesome? If you are finding spaces, why don't you find a hacker house and then people can live as well as learn together. This way all the participants won't have to spend money on rent and try to find an apartment?

Looks interesting!<p>I'm an experienced programmer (15+ years), but have only a limited exposure to IOS programming. I was planning on learning on my own, but your course seems pretty helpful.<p>But do you recommend this only for beginning programmers?

Man, I'd love to do this. Can't afford to take off work, don't have 9 weeks vacation, a new kid and a wife that wouldn't appreciate it.<p>I know, I'm merely making excuses, but... this would be fun and worthwhile.

Sounds great. Any thought being given into an online course using some kind of conferencing for student interaction.

I wish I was able to take 9 weeks off. This looks awesome.

This looks so cool! I can't wait to sign up.

This is an awesome opportunity!

The model isn't without precedent. For example, lots of paramedic companies run training programs at a loss, eg REMSA.<p>Congrats on the launch! I wish I had 9 weeks to do nothing but learn about IOS.<p>suggestion: tell everyone to buy a macbook air. Affordable and unixy.