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Your argument on Quora seems to be "if I make up largely-irrelevant categories, and then make up numbers, our program looks good". I'm not sure how that's supp

Your argument on Quora seems to be "if I make up largely-irrelevant categories, and then make up numbers, our program looks good". I'm not sure how that's supposed to be convincing. "self-instruction period" - this seems significantly less important than total time-sink, which I'd guess doesn't run in your favor at all. "the percentage that end up writing code for a living" - I honestly don't think I've ever seen a selection bias this big. You mean people who shell out 5 figures for education are more interested than people who dabble for a couple of hours at no cost? "average starting salary" - These are much more strongly tied to negotiating ability, etc. than programming ability, although I suppose it could be considered relevant (assuming that there's still a disparity after accounting for things like other experience, other skills, etc.). I'd honestly be interested in some actual measure of programming ability. These are very hard to come by, but it seems to me that you're in a pretty good position to find a reasonable method.

1qaz2wsx3edc 13y ago
I'd like to see Bootcamps with transparency over graduates and contrasted against college or tradeskill schools: 1. How many students land jobs in the tech industry or go onto other things (personal projects, adding skillsets to their employ, etc). What's the breakdown of success? 2. How much they were offered? How much in a year? 3. Follows up to the length and stability of their employment. Did you keep working for longer then 3 months, 6 months? 4. Did you have pre-experience in tech? --- I'd like to see these things, because while the programs generally provide some eye opening experience. They miss the mark at getting people a job. Business are reluctant to hire these unexperienced students (not to confuse experience with training here, I mean work experience). They fail in providing a big picture to potential students, it all feels partly snake oil without some necessary objectivity.

1qaz2wsx3edc 13y ago

I'd like to see Bootcamps with transparency over graduates and contrasted against college or tradeskill schools: 1. How many students land jobs in the tech industry or go onto other things (personal projects, adding skillsets to their employ, etc). What's the breakdown of success? 2. How much they were offered? How much in a year? 3. Follows up to the length and stability of their employment. Did you keep working for longer then 3 months, 6 months? 4. Did you have pre-experience in tech? --- I'd like to see these things, because while the programs generally provide some eye opening experience. They miss the mark at getting people a job. Business are reluctant to hire these unexperienced students (not to confuse experience with training here, I mean work experience). They fail in providing a big picture to potential students, it all feels partly snake oil without some necessary objectivity.