7 Feb
2014
7 Feb
'14
8:19 a.m.
Some of the "hacker schools" are awesome, 99% of the students love them,
and some of them are basically scams. But they are all very expensive (eg
HackBright gets nearly universal acclaim, but it's $15,000 for an 8 week
class), and it's hard to tell which one is awesome and which one is a scam
just by looking at their websites. So some sort of oversight / regulation
is needed, but I'm not sure what the best way is. There's plenty of other
vocational schools (all those ones that promise to get you a high paying
job as a dental assistant or pharmacy technician or whatever) that are
mostly scams and yet are unaffected by the current regulatory framework in
place.
On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Romy Ilano <romy(a)snowyla.com> wrote:
Here's a good Fast Company article, they highlight
the people who paid the
money but didn't find jobs:
http://www.fastcompany.com/3023456/become-an-ios-developer-in-8-weeks-the-t…
- One example was pretty weird... there was a pregnant woman who
enered dev bootcamp, and she couldn't compete with her 12 hours study days
against others who were studying 16 hours a day. -- wow! what were they
thinking? I think a hacker bootcamp would be a terrible idea for a pregnant
woman / new parent.
- One hacker school is in the Midwest, where there aren't that many
mobile developer jobs and they were training people to be iOS Developers.
Kind of weird.
I love hacker schools, but they have to be extremely selective if they
advertise to people that graduating students are going to get $70K a year
jobs after only 10-15 weeks of study. The advertising of salaries is what
bothers me a lot...
As we've been discussing, I see totally shady for-profit institutions
copying the hacker idea and fleecing unqualified students in the future. I
don't want the good hacker schools to get shut down :(
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Romy Ilano
romy(a)snowyla.com
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Hol Gaskill <hol(a)gaskill.com> wrote:
industrialization of education - obscuring the
intrinsic value of
knowledge and showing the way forward so that the technicians will know
which direction to pull the carts
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