42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university
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Re: 42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university
#2Why the 18-30 age limit? Seems a bit... ageist?
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#3What is the reason for having the age restriction of 30? Does it not implicitly contribute to the existing ageism issue in tech industry. Why can't a professional working in another industry learn something new at the age of 35 or a mother who wants to come back to the workforce after her kids start going to school?
Re: 42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university
#4> There are no school fees: running costs for the 10 first years (estimated at 20 to 50 million euros) have been personally funded by Xavier Niel. 42 will train each year one thousand students...
There are so many billionaires and millionaires in Silicon Valley who could easily fund a school like this, it simply baffles me that none of them have a tuition-free school of their own.
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#5So I am to strive to become a "very valuable asset for any company" ... I guess dehumanization is bad only when it is done by noncorporation people.
Also - can we stop with teaching to code already. Assume instead of literacy and writing in schools we thought people how to flip pages on books with green covers. Or we were teaching people how to multiply only by 8.
Without the broader body of IT literacy, coding is not that useful skill. Except for future corporate drones working on waterfall.
We need to give people basic IT literacy - the critical mass of knowledge that allows them to obtain more and diverse knowledge on their own - so when faced with a problem to know how to formulate a question and where to look for solution.
Re: 42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university
#6This is something that looks very interesting. I wonder if this would ever come to the UK. I know France is just across the channel but there surely is massive demand for this in the UK as well.
Re: 42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university
#7What is the reason for having the age restriction of 30? Does it not implicitly contribute to the existing ageism issue in tech industry. Why can't a professional working in another industry learn something new at the age of 35 or a mother who wants to come back to the workforce after her kids start going to school?
I'm guessing most people over 30 can not commit to a 3-year full time study, but it's weird indeed that they're not even allowed in.
Re: 42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university
#8What is the reason for having the age restriction of 30? Does it not implicitly contribute to the existing ageism issue in tech industry. Why can't a professional working in another industry learn something new at the age of 35 or a mother who wants to come back to the workforce after her kids start going to school?
I'm guessing most people over 30 can not commit to a 3-year full time study, but it's weird indeed that they're not even allowed in.
3 years of study?? What!? That's insane, you do not need 3 years of study to enter this industry. At that point, I may as well go and get a Computer Science degree at a local college and at least have a legitimate degree.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm guessing most people over 30 can not commit to a 3-year full time study, but it's weird indeed that they're not even allowed in.
3 years of study ?? What!? That's insane, you do not need 3 years of study to enter this industry. At that point, I may as well go and get a Computer Science degree at a local college and at least have a legitimate degree.
Would it be tuition free ?
Re: 42 comes to Silicon Valley: free, non profit coding university
#10From the website:
> 42 allows students who have successfully completed the selection tests to continue their training at the Silicon Valley or Paris campuses (under the condition that they have the necessary immigration visa for their choice. The visa formalities need to be completed by the student, 42 cannot give a visa).
In the application form itself:
> If you are applying for 42 Paris you must either be a citizen of the European Union or have a valid titre de séjour while you are a student at 42.
> 42 cannot provide immigration visas for students. If you are applying for 42 Fremont you must be a citizen of the United States or have a valid green card while you are a student at 42.
What does this mean? Would 42 be able to act as a sponsor of sort if a student is successfully admitted into the program, or will this be open only to those fortunate enough to either be born in the US or EU, or have a residence permit of some sort?