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Sorry but 100k is just absurd. A computer science AS degree at any decent California community college is about $1500 instate tuition, and would be vastly more

Sorry but 100k is just absurd. A computer science AS degree at any decent California community college is about $1500 instate tuition, and would be vastly more respectable and useful.

dragonwriter 8y ago
> A computer science AS degree at any decent California community college is about $1500 instate tuition, That's about 32 semester units ($46/unit). An AS typically has a minimum of 60 semester units as a requirement. Plus, an accredited BS is likely to be better regarded than an AS for many purposes.
- aphextron 8y ago
  >That's about 32 semester units ($46/unit). An AS typically has a minimum of 60 semester units as a requirement. So about $2700. But it depends on your income, and most sudents end up paying almost no fees at all thanks to the Governor’s Grant. San Francisco City College is actually completely free for all residents of the city now.
  - dragonwriter 8y ago
    > most sudents end up paying almost no fees at all thanks to the Governor’s Grant. That's because California Community colleges right now draw a huge share of students from the low income (sub-150% of federal povertly line) families that are eligible for the Promise Grant (formerly Board of Governor's Fee Waiver.) But that's not the segment of the potential market that is most likely to be weighing Community College against a $100K 2-year accelerated BS program, most likely. > San Francisco City College is actually completely free for all residents of the city now. And that is awesome, but again not relevant to most of the potential market at issue here, I think.
- chrisseaton 8y ago
  Nobody cares about accreditation in CS. Stanford is not accredited, for example.
paul7986 8y ago
Even cheaper learning yourself by building out random ideas, posting your code on GitHub and blogging about how much you like to code/create stuff.
drawnwren 8y ago
That's a good thought, but low tuition costs mean CS professors at California community colleges are making close to nothing. Warning, anecdotal evidence, but I took CS at CCSF and when asked how to tell if a number was prime in Java, the professor responded "I don't know, google it. There's probably a function that does that."
- thaumasiotes 8y ago
  To be fair, that's the correct answer if you're trying to do a primality test for some non-didactic reason. They're complicated. There are very simple ways to test for primality, but they're... slow. (And at that level, the "in Java" part of the question doesn't make any sense. "What cryptography libraries do you use in Java?" is a perfectly sensible question. "How do you divide numbers in Java?"....)
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strikelaserclaw 8y ago
I was going to comment on how awesome this was until i saw the 100k price tag.

Sorry but 100k is just absurd. A computer science AS degree at any decent California community college is about $1500 instate tuition, and would be vastly more respectable and useful.

dragonwriter 8y ago

> A computer science AS degree at any decent California community college is about $1500 instate tuition, That's about 32 semester units ($46/unit). An AS typically has a minimum of 60 semester units as a requirement. Plus, an accredited BS is likely to be better regarded than an AS for many purposes.

aphextron 8y ago
>That's about 32 semester units ($46/unit). An AS typically has a minimum of 60 semester units as a requirement. So about $2700. But it depends on your income, and most sudents end up paying almost no fees at all thanks to the Governor’s Grant. San Francisco City College is actually completely free for all residents of the city now.
- dragonwriter 8y ago
  > most sudents end up paying almost no fees at all thanks to the Governor’s Grant. That's because California Community colleges right now draw a huge share of students from the low income (sub-150% of federal povertly line) families that are eligible for the Promise Grant (formerly Board of Governor's Fee Waiver.) But that's not the segment of the potential market that is most likely to be weighing Community College against a $100K 2-year accelerated BS program, most likely. > San Francisco City College is actually completely free for all residents of the city now. And that is awesome, but again not relevant to most of the potential market at issue here, I think.
chrisseaton 8y ago
Nobody cares about accreditation in CS. Stanford is not accredited, for example.

paul7986 8y ago

Even cheaper learning yourself by building out random ideas, posting your code on GitHub and blogging about how much you like to code/create stuff.

drawnwren 8y ago

That's a good thought, but low tuition costs mean CS professors at California community colleges are making close to nothing. Warning, anecdotal evidence, but I took CS at CCSF and when asked how to tell if a number was prime in Java, the professor responded "I don't know, google it. There's probably a function that does that."

thaumasiotes 8y ago
To be fair, that's the correct answer if you're trying to do a primality test for some non-didactic reason. They're complicated. There are very simple ways to test for primality, but they're... slow. (And at that level, the "in Java" part of the question doesn't make any sense. "What cryptography libraries do you use in Java?" is a perfectly sensible question. "How do you divide numbers in Java?"....)
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strikelaserclaw 8y ago

I was going to comment on how awesome this was until i saw the 100k price tag.