Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year

Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year by jo032 on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:17AM (#25416465)

If you're self motivated enough to follow a curriculum on your own, you're probably much better off using online resources from MIT/Stanford/Harvard which are not only free but much better quality.

The learning environment described in the linked thread (200 students per teacher, plus blind leading the blind with volunteer mentors) sounds terrible at any price including $0.00. Many MOOCs have community boards, TA's, interactive assignments and cost little or nothing. If their plan is to just bundle that same experience with a job placement sales team and a private slack, then they'll just be yet another for-profit credential mill

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Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year by sugarwater on Monday December 14, 2020 @12:34PM (#25420391)

Couldn't agree more. In fact, most students will look for outside resources because Lambda's resources are poor. In fact, one of my instructors shares a PDF of Grokking Algorithms to his students because the school's CS content is lacking.

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Re:Lambda School is the biggest mistake I made this year by isthatsoup on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:11AM (#25417071)

Not really relevant but I'm basically the only person I know that thinks it's the coolest thing in the world that I can open up my computer and watch a lecture from MIT/Stanford/Harvard etc. in almost any thing I want. Such a great time to be alive for self-motivated people that like learning stuff!

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