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Re:Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over... by MivLives on Monday October 25, 2021 @04:58PM (#28993044)
I'm a currently working software engineer from Lambda, who knows other people who succeeded at Lambda and other bootcamps.

The TA thing, a TA doesn't teach, a TA pretty much grades/code reviews. They answered questions. (I did this while I was hunting for a job).

They also don't count that towards placement.

I have an IS degree, but some other people I know succeed with pretty much anything you can think of. I don't have enough of a sample size to know if we're all just exceptions or not.

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Re:Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over... by 908B64B197 on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:46PM (#28993547)
> The TA thing, a TA doesn't teach, a TA pretty much grades/code reviews. They answered questions.

That sounds like... teaching doesn't it?

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Re:Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over... by MivLives on Monday October 25, 2021 @05:51PM (#28993597)
I guess I should have used the word lecture. Maybe they do lecture now, it's been awhile since I was involved.
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Re:Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over... by abeyer on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:11PM (#28994364)
Many would argue that lecturing is (/should be) the least important or impactful part of teaching.
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Re:Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over... by Grimm1 on Monday October 25, 2021 @08:15PM (#28994934)
Man, in college I designed the curriculum for, led 7 other TAs, graded and lectured the introductory CS course with 300+ students for two semesters. Clearly I should have told them I was the teacher (Ha!) and should have been paid more than 23/hr but nope my title was Head TA while the professor, who admittedly I hold in high regard supervised to make sure things didn't go off the rails. Honestly it was a great learning experience but yeah sometimes I think about that and laugh to myself.
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