42 (school)
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#2Some previous meta-discussion about a reddit post that made some very critical claims about 42: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189670
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#3Some previous meta-discussion about a reddit post that made some very critical claims about 42: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189670
I’m a current student at 42, myself and my fellow students all had a pretty good laugh at much of their comments. We didn’t really see an accurate representation of our school, and much of it came across as a bitter student who wasn’t accepted.
For example, there is a cat at the Paris campus and the students are asked to ignore it and not pet it. That guidance turned into the ‘rule’ that if ‘the cat touches you, you fail’. I promise the school doesn’t have a secret failure cat.
I’m referring to the reddit link, not the HN comments.
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#4"The candidates must be between 18 and 30 years of age (18 - 45 in Silicon Valley).[14] No previous diploma is required."
Age discrimination at its best. Cap it at 45?
How many people over 30 (45 in the US) are trying to retool and get educated on programming?
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#5Too bad I'm over 30.
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#6Too bad I'm over 30.
There’s no age restrictions for the Silicon Valley campus, you’re more than welcome to apply.
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#8It sounds like an interesting experiment, though I agree with other posters about the age cap.
A school named 42 that would not accept Douglas Adams as a student, were he still around. Ha!
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#9Some previous meta-discussion about a reddit post that made some very critical claims about 42: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18189670
My son is a student at 42 (in Paris) and he's very happy to be there. It seems that the system they have is a better match for his learning style than what you would find in a more traditional school.
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#10This kind of discussion will end up being the typical (French) disdain between people learning engineering in the public schools v/s the ones learning in these "practical teaching" private schools and vice versa.
There are good engineers in both, both have different approach to teach which fit different people. Both do generally good in the private sector after they're done with it.
As usual the people graduating from public schools will say the private graduates don't have the theorical foundation, and the private graduates will say the public graduates don't have enough technical skills when they graduate. In reality the decent students will pick up the theory from the practical projects and vice-versa.
If that matters, I did Epitech, which is similar-ish to 42 and all the people that graduated with me have decent positions and are in high demand by the job market. Some of them in big name companies.
This kind of private schools are a good alternative for people who don't fit in the public education by letting them just do practical projects with some direction and let them pick up the theory from there. Some people are really good self taught hackers but would otherwise drop out in typical education, but they can shine in these schools. I've met many.