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There are two horrors here: 1) most people who apply for programming jobs can't write FizzBuzz; 2) the traditional way to signal that you are not one of them

There are two horrors here: 1) most people who apply for programming jobs can't write FizzBuzz; 2) the traditional way to signal that you are not one of them will cost you 5 years of your life, and probably burden you with decades of debt. Employers of course worry about the first one, because the costs of too much interviewing come directly from their pockets. Students worry about the second one, because they pay for that one directly with their money and time. The fact that if you can learn in 3 months what the average student learns for 5 years, there is a possibility for you go get a signal that really only costs you 3 months of your time, and also proportionally less money, is a fantastic improvement over the traditional way where if you are faster, you just have to spend more time waiting... while still paying huge money for that time. (The equivalent improvement for the employers would be like, doing FizzBuzz tests during phone call, so you would only spend 2 minutes per hopeless candidate, instead of scheduling one hour of your time.)

908B64B197 6y ago
> The fact that if you can learn in 3 months what the average student learns for 5 years, there is a possibility for you go get a signal that really only costs you 3 months of your time, and also proportionally less money, is a fantastic improvement over the traditional way where if you are faster, you just have to spend more time waiting... while still paying huge money for that time. The author did code professionally for 10 years before getting his CS degree. And he did have an Associates Degree in IT to land those jobs.
- Viliam1234 6y ago
  Yes, the author was not just an ordinary student. I still consider this a fantastic improvement for two reasons: > many opportunities ... out of reach because I didn’t have the required papers > From there, a Bachelor’s degree typically requires an additional 3 years of study. 1) The author had a problem he wanted to fix; the traditional way required 3 years and lots of money; the alternative required only 3 months and less money. 2) If, hypothetically, there is an 18 years old genius who could accomplish this trick right after high school (maybe not in 3 months, but 6 or 12 months -- still faster and cheaper than the traditional way), they can, and this is how.

908B64B197 6y ago

> The fact that if you can learn in 3 months what the average student learns for 5 years, there is a possibility for you go get a signal that really only costs you 3 months of your time, and also proportionally less money, is a fantastic improvement over the traditional way where if you are faster, you just have to spend more time waiting... while still paying huge money for that time. The author did code professionally for 10 years before getting his CS degree. And he did have an Associates Degree in IT to land those jobs.

Viliam1234 6y ago
Yes, the author was not just an ordinary student. I still consider this a fantastic improvement for two reasons: > many opportunities ... out of reach because I didn’t have the required papers > From there, a Bachelor’s degree typically requires an additional 3 years of study. 1) The author had a problem he wanted to fix; the traditional way required 3 years and lots of money; the alternative required only 3 months and less money. 2) If, hypothetically, there is an 18 years old genius who could accomplish this trick right after high school (maybe not in 3 months, but 6 or 12 months -- still faster and cheaper than the traditional way), they can, and this is how.