Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders and developers

Re:Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders a... by Kalium on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:16PM (#9172667)

That's a nice ideal. Have you considered that people will tend to do the former part and not the latter, leaving us with a population of people with obsolete skills and lacking the foundation to easily learn new ones?

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Re:Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders a... by pitt1980 on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:47PM (#9172935)

I don't see any evidence that taking college classes lays any foundation for learning additional skills later

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Re:Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders a... by Kalium on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:48PM (#9172951)

I have seen evidence that a fundamental understanding of computing makes it easier to learn particular languages later.

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Re:Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders a... by vinceguidry on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:44PM (#9172904)

There's enough people in tech right now that don't have degrees. I'm one of them. So I doubt this would become a huge problem.

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Re:Show HN: Make School – College replacement for founders a... by Kalium on Monday March 09, 2015 @02:49PM (#9172964)

I submit that bootcamps are creating this problem right now. Many bootcamp graduates have poor grasps of the basics of computing, which will tend to limit their skill and career growth. For instance, it's difficult to grasp functional programming if imperative PHP is literally the only thing you know.

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