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Coding school 42 plans to educate 10,000 students in Silicon Valley for free
- bonniemuffin 10y agoOh cool, it's just like Hunger Games. The kids love Hunger Games!
- powera 10y agoSo they have a 4-week coding competition, and then at the end, the best students ... get to study programming for 3-5 years? Aren't those the students that don't need to spend 3-5 years studying programming and could just get a job now?
- sgift 10y agoIf one believes programming is an "art" then it could make sense to behave like art schools: To get in you need to proof "talent" and only those with most "talent" get in. If one thinks of it as an engineering discipline .. then it makes far less sense. Take your pick.
- regi 10y agoSo I spent 3 years in Epitech, which forked into 42, and the first 4 weeks aren't a competition but more like an onboarding thing. You basically learn C in 4 weeks, with coding tests pretty much every day. It sets the base and it turns out to be a great way to quickly know if you really wanna be a software engineer. After these 4 weeks, students start working on group projects and regular CS classes (although teachers are senior students).
- detaro 10y agodupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713423 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11713423
- dilemma 10y agoWhat's the catch aka business model?
- sjhart 10y agoLiving in San Francisco for 4 weeks or 4 years costs a lot.