Re:Billionaire founder of Free launches free coding college
by tek4 on Monday August 15, 2016 @06:45AM
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The school 42 its NOT A BOOTCAMP. I think people are not reading the article because i see a lot of people comparing it to bootcamps. It lasts a lot more than bootcamps, 3 years and students never learn rails javascript or any web developement stuff.
[EDIT] You learn the base, lowllevel stuff and you code a lot. Afterwards you are able to pick any language or framework in a week. Students learn to teach themselves.
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Re:Billionaire founder of Free launches free coding college
by fk_mks on Monday August 15, 2016 @01:40PM
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There is already some web development projects (currently html/css/php and javascript), and RoR subjects are being crafted by students. We start with low level, and after some basics (unix shell, stdlib, printf, corewar, raytracing 3d-engine and web), there's some sysadmin stuff, pentesting, kernel programming, functionnal programming, unity, machine learning, etc.
Re:Billionaire founder of Free launches free coding college
by truth_sentinell on Monday August 15, 2016 @02:30PM
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Holy shit that sounds a world more exciting than my newton's law classes and my literature as well in Computer Science. I think I just lost 6 years of my life.
Re:Billionaire founder of Free launches free coding college
by tracker1 on Monday August 15, 2016 @03:29PM
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+1, 42 seems to be a much better approach than bootcamps and even most University programs when it comes to learning software development. I would think most of these students would be far above and ahead of what I see from a lot of people with even a Masters in CS in terms of aptitude/approach.
On the flip side, it's hard to imagine making it through 3+ years of 6x12 days without burning out... Though I'm not sure what the vacation/holiday break schedule looks like.