Re:About Coding House (2014)
by dragonwriter on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @05:25PM
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> The is a huge shortage of devs.
If the high salaries for developers were due to a training-insufficiency-based shortage of qualified devs, the natural market for training programs would be hiring firms, not would-be devs.
The reason the market is would-be devs is because, insofar as there is a shortage, its a talent-and-inclination-based shortage, but you can sell it to would-be devs as a training-based shortage that they are taking advantage of by buying into your program.
> You can learn everything we teach on your own for free (near free).
Then why does anyone need you?
> Boot camps expedite the process by 4x to 12x the amount of time it would take.
If the high salaries for developers were due to a training-insufficiency-based shortage of qualified devs, the natural market for training programs would be hiring firms, not would-be devs.
The reason the market is would-be devs is because, insofar as there is a shortage, its a talent-and-inclination-based shortage, but you can sell it to would-be devs as a training-based shortage that they are taking advantage of by buying into your program.
> You can learn everything we teach on your own for free (near free).
Then why does anyone need you?
> Boot camps expedite the process by 4x to 12x the amount of time it would take.
Where does this quantification come from?