Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
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Re: Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
#2Awesome, though it might take a bit of air out of the tech-as-a-solution-to-jobs when one hears the qualifier "BTW, they're university-educated CS majors." (At a university with an absolutely terrible career services department, even by the low standards of career services departments.)
Re: Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
#3I'm donating my 31st birthday to this great org. Donating $150 will get you a signed copy of Without Their Permission and I'll take the highest donor out to lunch in Queens.
https://www.crowdtilt.com/campaigns/donating-my-31st-help-c4...
Re: Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
#4I love reading stories like this.
Re: Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
#5I think this is great! As someone who has a background in teaching youth living in poverty who is now a coder, I've often thought about swinging back around and do bootcamp style courses for older teenagers.
Re: Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
#6Awesome, though it might take a bit of air out of the tech-as-a-solution-to-jobs when one hears the qualifier "BTW, they're university-educated CS majors." (At a university with an absolutely terrible career services department, even by the low standards of career services departments.)
My head almost exploded from sloppy statistics reading the article.
> Six months after the first Access Code class of 21 students completed the 18 week course, the 15 graduates who accepted job offers have seen their income rise from under $15,000 to an average of $72,190; the other six students are either still in college or have chosen to launch their own startups
1: Those not getting a job were not included in the average. 2: The analysis is comparing student incomes with working incomes. I imagine every college and university could show amazing income growth using these measures.
Re: Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
#7This is awesome, but they are not making enough.
I still get MBA types saying: 'can you build this app for me plz?'
I don't think they want it built, else they'd do it.
Re: Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
#8Just to be clear, these are people with either a BS or a BA in Computer Science, right?
Re: Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
#9Awesome, though it might take a bit of air out of the tech-as-a-solution-to-jobs when one hears the qualifier "BTW, they're university-educated CS majors." (At a university with an absolutely terrible career services department, even by the low standards of career services departments.)
My head almost exploded from sloppy statistics reading the article. > Six months after the first Access Code class of 21 students completed the 18 week course, the 15 graduates who accepted job offers have seen their income rise from under $15,000 to an average of $72,190; the other six students are either still in college or have chosen to launch their own startups 1: Those not getting a job were not included in the…
1. Yes that's what they said. The average included those who accepted job offers.
2. After paying $20,000 a year and/or going in to debt.
Re: Nonprofit in Queens taught people to write apps, incomes rose from $15k to $72k
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
My head almost exploded from sloppy statistics reading the article. > Six months after the first Access Code class of 21 students completed the 18 week course, the 15 graduates who accepted job offers have seen their income rise from under $15,000 to an average of $72,190; the other six students are either still in college or have chosen to launch their own startups 1: Those not getting a job were not included in the…
1. Yes that's what they said. The average included those who accepted job offers. 2. After paying $20,000 a year and/or going in to debt.
The average before and the average after don't measure the same group of people. So you can't use them to compare anything.