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Re:Xavier Niel will open a "revolutionary" computer school by fab13n on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @02:04PM (#5445004)
Epitech has all the incentives to be a scam (or higher education as usual, as it's called in the US). Here, since it's free, the only incentive I see for Niel is to have first pick, as an employer, in a pool of young recruits.

He's certainly not a philanthropist, and he's probably smarter than most of us, so he might have ulterior motives that we don't see yet, but it won't be a straightforward "cheap degree for good money" scam.

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Re:Xavier Niel will open a "revolutionary" computer school by ritonlajoie on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @05:04PM (#5446065)
Epitech is around 8000k/year. I made the 5 years and get a decent job, but I think it's still a scam because you learn in a p2p environment. Teachers and traditional courses are non existent. You code a lot, a lot, a lot, you learn also a lot, but it's not worth 8K euros per year for sure !
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