We love to use our ideas and creativity to inspire and empower developers to build things that improve the lives of others. We create all the video courses from scratch ourselves, and keep all the biz stuff hummin' along.
Here are a few things you might like to know about us and our approach to training:
We're a two-person company, privately-owned and operated.
We named our company The Pragmatic Studio because we believe the best software developers have a lot in common with artists and a studio is a workroom where artists practice and improve their craft.
We got started in 2005 by offering the first-ever public Ruby on Rails course. Alumni of that course are highly-regarded "Golden Spike Members".
Between 2005 and 2013, we held over 100 public classes in 14 cities on 11 various topics with 15 different sets of instructors. Alongside our instructors, we've also had the privilege of teaching hundreds of private classes offered on-site at companies around the world.
Over 2,500 developers have attended at least one of our in-person courses, and tens of thousands more have taken our online courses.
We've convinced that real learning happens when you build real applications in a real development environment. That's why our courses are project-driven and you complete the exercises on your own computer.
We believe that learning a new skill or language or tool is good, but being able to apply that new skill to a real-world need is far more gratifying.
