Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
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#2I attended community college for a few years before transferring to a 4-year university. During that time I took a variety of technical and non-technical courses that I really enjoyed and felt I got a lot of value from due to the small class sizes and ability to connect with professors outside of class fairly easily. I would have stopped after getting my Associate’s degree as I felt like I had learned a lot and I had next to zero debt from my education, and it was around that time I really got into programming and software development which is what I now do for a living.
The only reason I went on to a bigger school was familial pressure and the idea that I’d be pretty much doomed without a Bachelor’s degree or better. I left with a large amount of debt (my family fell into the space of too much for grants and not enough to pay out of pocket) and honestly didn’t really like my 4-year experience nor do I feel like it added much to the value of my life, either in practical or intrinsic terms. I get that my experience is anecdotal but I wonder how many other people would have been in the same boat.
Re: Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
#3Archive Link: http://archive.is/nmoqk
To get around the paywalls.
Re: Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
#4This is an interesting reaction to the "bootcamp" trend (and subsequent implosion).
I think it has a better chance of succeeding: you might not need four years of university education to become an entry-level developer, but a few weeks of intensive "bootcamp" training isn't enough.
Re: Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
#5I attended community college for a few years before transferring to a 4-year university. During that time I took a variety of technical and non-technical courses that I really enjoyed and felt I got a lot of value from due to the small class sizes and ability to connect with professors outside of class fairly easily. I would have stopped after getting my Associate’s degree as I felt like I had learned a lot and I had…
Do community colleges have professors? I thought they didn't really do research at community colleges and they were focused on teaching?
Re: Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
#6This is an interesting reaction to the "bootcamp" trend (and subsequent implosion). I think it has a better chance of succeeding: you might not need four years of university education to become an entry-level developer, but a few weeks of intensive "bootcamp" training isn't enough.
I think the other advantage is that at most community colleges you are required to branch out from technical topics and take at least a few humanities and liberal arts courses. You end up coming out slightly more well-rounded which can be hugely beneficial both career and life wise.
Re: Big Tech’s Hot New Talent Incubator: Community College
#7I attended community college for a few years before transferring to a 4-year university. During that time I took a variety of technical and non-technical courses that I really enjoyed and felt I got a lot of value from due to the small class sizes and ability to connect with professors outside of class fairly easily. I would have stopped after getting my Associate’s degree as I felt like I had learned a lot and I had…
Do community colleges have professors? I thought they didn't really do research at community colleges and they were focused on teaching?
I did have a few professors among the normal “instructors” you typically find at community colleges. For example, one of my music professors had a Ph.D. and did transcription work that the college used.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do community colleges have professors? I thought they didn't really do research at community colleges and they were focused on teaching?
I did have a few professors among the normal “instructors” you typically find at community colleges. For example, one of my music professors had a Ph.D. and did transcription work that the college used.
Don't you need about 20 years of top tier papers to get to the rank of professor?
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I did have a few professors among the normal “instructors” you typically find at community colleges. For example, one of my music professors had a Ph.D. and did transcription work that the college used.
Don't you need about 20 years of top tier papers to get to the rank of professor?
Maybe I’m misusing the term? Though I do feel like I remember them being referred to as professors rather than instructors.
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#10This is an interesting reaction to the "bootcamp" trend (and subsequent implosion). I think it has a better chance of succeeding: you might not need four years of university education to become an entry-level developer, but a few weeks of intensive "bootcamp" training isn't enough.
It really depends on the prequisite knowledge that you have. If you're good in reading knitting patterns, it means you have a tack for algorithms. If you know propositional logic because you were a philosophy major, then if-statements are basically a syntactic difference and nothing else.
When I was a bootcamp instructor I noticed that my top students were able to pick up React Native or Electron without me teaching them. One student needed to learn the basics of Python, PHP and later on Java Spring Boot. He was capable of doing that.
For students that are in the lowest 33% I would agree, but for everyone above that there is a debate and for the top students it is not a question in my opinion. They are employable, even for different technologies. Of course, they still have a lot to learn, but they also have demonstrated they're capable of doing that making them an investment that's easily calculated whether he/she will be an asset or not.