"Complete software engineers", eh? Does that mean things required for modern software engineering, like complexity theory and relational calculus? Or are they just skipping over this?
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#22"Participants will need to complete a binding job search agreement and must be willing to relocate for a job if they reside outside of selected cities." Really? So basically you have no choice but to relocate if they can't place you in a job where you live. Also, they never say what type of programming job they can give or if you have a choice on accepting the job or not. what if you graduate and they get you a job a…
So don't sign up. For some this is the golden ticket into the middle class, and worth the price. I'm guessing its really a trainer/recruiter for a contracting firm. But so what? That's a great first job for a graduate - lots of experience quickly.
middle class is all relative to salary and location. if you're making $50K a year and living somewhere in North Dakota, then yes, you're probably well above middle class. But making $50K and living in LA, well, you're in poverty.
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#2312K$ tuition, a contract that forces you to not only accept any job offers but also relocate for them... eh ok...
Most public 2-year collages cost 3-5K (Google, not experience so forgive me if I'm off by a bit, and yes that doesn't cover board and living expenses but neither does the 12K for the 7 months you go to this school) a year, you can get an associate in applied Science degree in programming for about the same costs as that course and most likely lower.
This looks more like an indenture scam than a coding school. And while their teaching might be top notch you will probably won't be hired into a top tier company with a 100K+ salary just because you've attended an online course no matter how good it was.
At best you will end up working for some filling some low paid job for some generic software company.
What sad is that they are also most likely being paid by the companies they arrange jobs for just like any other recruitment company does.
Their curriculum is also a bit meh, I really don't see the value of coding schools that don't integrate math into their curriculum. I'm sorry but there's a good reason why college degrees in Comp. Sci or Software Engineering are mostly maths. It's fairly tough facing actual programming challenges without it, now I'm not saying every programmer, eh sorry "coder" has to have MSc level of math but quite a bit of it is actually important into forming how a programmer "thinks" even if they are not directly implementing it in their programming.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
So don't sign up. For some this is the golden ticket into the middle class, and worth the price. I'm guessing its really a trainer/recruiter for a contracting firm. But so what? That's a great first job for a graduate - lots of experience quickly.
middle class is all relative to salary and location. if you're making $50K a year and living somewhere in North Dakota, then yes, you're probably well above middle class. But making $50K and living in LA, well, you're in poverty.
Somebody in Africa would have a different opinion of poverty.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
middle class is all relative to salary and location. if you're making $50K a year and living somewhere in North Dakota, then yes, you're probably well above middle class. But making $50K and living in LA, well, you're in poverty.
Somebody in Africa would have a different opinion of poverty.
That was kind of the point.