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If people can self learn they will. I think doing so is much, much more difficult than others pretend like it is. Given that you could earn the entire cost of

If people can self learn they will. I think doing so is much, much more difficult than others pretend like it is. Given that you could earn the entire cost of Lambda School (at the cap - the most expensive) in about three months of engineering time, it’s a rational decision even if you just speed up the process.

naveen99 7y ago
Does lambda school come with a .edu email address for students ?
- austenallred 7y ago
  No, Lambda School is not an accredited school.
  - codingdave 7y ago
    Perhaps you should look into getting it? Accreditation does exist for vocational schools, and you'd go a long ways towards alleviating the concerns of potential students if you pursued it: http://www.accsc.org/Accreditation/Standards-of-Accreditation.aspx http://www.accsc.org/Accreditation/Standards-of-Accreditatio...
    - austenallred 7y ago
      Have looked at it. It provides more negatives than pluses. Waiting months or years for someone to review every curriculum change would completely kill us.
      - naveen99 7y ago
        If you don’t need a degree, most universities have visiting student programs that are less expensive compared to their degree programs also. Maybe lambda school should partner with a university non degree program so students can have access to an online library and a .edu email also.
notbob 7y ago
> If people can self learn they will. I think doing so is much, much more difficult than others pretend like it is. I'm not sure. But what's definitely true is that it's WAY harder as an adult. Most self-taught programmers I know (including myself) learned to program as children/teenagers. Learning at that age is easier -- if not biologically, then at the very least because you have tons of free time. The few I know who self-taught programming but didn't learn as youth already had really strong backgrounds in mathematics or physics, and leaned heavily on the skills that studying those fields teaches you.
- warent 7y ago
  > Learning at that age is easier ... at the very least because you have tons of free time. That isn't really a valid argument here though because Lambda School is a full-time program to my understanding, so it's expected you somehow have 8 hours a day to put into it.
ngngngng 7y ago
I appreciate the response. I really do have a lot of respect for what you guys are doing. But I can't help but feel that it's like communism in China. Sure it's far better than what was there before. But is it the best option?

naveen99 7y ago

Does lambda school come with a .edu email address for students ?

austenallred 7y ago
No, Lambda School is not an accredited school.
- codingdave 7y ago
  Perhaps you should look into getting it? Accreditation does exist for vocational schools, and you'd go a long ways towards alleviating the concerns of potential students if you pursued it: http://www.accsc.org/Accreditation/Standards-of-Accreditation.aspx http://www.accsc.org/Accreditation/Standards-of-Accreditatio...
  - austenallred 7y ago
    Have looked at it. It provides more negatives than pluses. Waiting months or years for someone to review every curriculum change would completely kill us.
    - naveen99 7y ago
      If you don’t need a degree, most universities have visiting student programs that are less expensive compared to their degree programs also. Maybe lambda school should partner with a university non degree program so students can have access to an online library and a .edu email also.

notbob 7y ago

> If people can self learn they will. I think doing so is much, much more difficult than others pretend like it is. I'm not sure. But what's definitely true is that it's WAY harder as an adult. Most self-taught programmers I know (including myself) learned to program as children/teenagers. Learning at that age is easier -- if not biologically, then at the very least because you have tons of free time. The few I know who self-taught programming but didn't learn as youth already had really strong backgrounds in mathematics or physics, and leaned heavily on the skills that studying those fields teaches you.

warent 7y ago
> Learning at that age is easier ... at the very least because you have tons of free time. That isn't really a valid argument here though because Lambda School is a full-time program to my understanding, so it's expected you somehow have 8 hours a day to put into it.

ngngngng 7y ago

I appreciate the response. I really do have a lot of respect for what you guys are doing. But I can't help but feel that it's like communism in China. Sure it's far better than what was there before. But is it the best option?