I’m all in favor of teaching kids how to program, but please be careful about setting expectations. To me, it sounds as if you’re telling people “hey, learn to

I’m all in favor of teaching kids how to program, but please be careful about setting expectations. To me, it sounds as if you’re telling people “hey, learn to program in 6 months and get a six figure salary at Facebook!”. While that may be a good way to sell the program, it’s unrealistic and deceitful. Can you replace a 4-year CS program with a 6 month course? No offense, but I doubt so. I figure the best you can do is have students to know their way around Ruby, know how to build simple apps relying on Rails, some basics about algorithms, familiarity with git, etc. That might be enough for some jobs, but I doubt that’s the kind of engineer companies like Facebook are looking to hire. Again, I’m not saying that teaching these kids how to program is bad. It’s great. But please think about the expectations that you’re setting. (I would’ve written more to express myself better, but I don’t have time!)