Would be nice for (a) company/ies to do the same and allow for remote work while partnering with online program(s) (a la udemey & co or even some Harvard online). That way, it would let people all over the world access it and pool some really dope talent for the company(ies)!
The students would be thrilled for the free or subsidized education while having some real world practice from real world companies.
I remember hating how dumb some of the projects were in school and how going out of your way to make the project really awesome didn't really earn you much.
DevDegree: Work at Shopify and get a free CS degree in parallel
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#32i am wishing i could go back 15 years and do this now. i was dumb enough to go to an ivy league for an unrelated degree, then change careers and go thru a bootcamp, and i'm now still 100's of thousands in debt. if i was growing up today i would absolutely drop everything to do this. kudos to shopify but it really feels a little bittersweet.
Graduated from an unrelated degree more recently, but had the opportunity to write a whole lot of code while there. Got my first dev job right out of school.
There are much more opportunities nowaday to use coding in almost every major, sadly, the schools haven't changed, ending up imo ruining a lot of career.
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#33We dont have accreditation from universities, but this is the direction we are going with the RedCarpet ROCKS program .
https://www.redcarpetup.com/rocks
we do active placement here (unless we hire them). We have an above 90% placement rate here.
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#34This looks a lot more like an apprenticeship to me than a degree.
Which I think is fantastic, Universities are generally terrible at teaching practical skills and fantastic at teaching theory.
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#35Says $160,000 salary. I’m guessing that’s total over the 4 years, so $40k CAD per year. Still a great deal.
It says salary, tuition & vacation. So I wouldn't be surprised if that's a $160k estimation for the whole thing for the 4 years! But yeah, either way, better than $60k/y in tuition you end up owing!
Tuition in Canada is around $10k-20k/year depending on school and status.
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#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
GP went to an Ivy league. Totally possible
Given the amount, that's actually fairly unlikely to be from the Ivy League education. Generally Ivy League schools cost less (sometimes way less) than public schools unless your family makes more than ~130-150k combined and/or has fairly substantial assets. One possible way for it to happen is if a student's parents have a high income, are unwilling to pay for the student's education and force the student to shoulde…
The Ivy no-loan policies are a relatively recent development.
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#37i am wishing i could go back 15 years and do this now. i was dumb enough to go to an ivy league for an unrelated degree, then change careers and go thru a bootcamp, and i'm now still 100's of thousands in debt. if i was growing up today i would absolutely drop everything to do this. kudos to shopify but it really feels a little bittersweet.
> now still 100's of thousands in debt Is that hyperbole, or literally your debt is that much?
not hyperbole. there were some compounding factors i didnt mention, but the bulk is quite literally college tuition. i dont need to put my screwed up financial life on display but it's the single worst decision of my life, all for imagined prestige. i'm lucky enough that i will earn my way out of it, but it is quite literally preventing me from starting any businesses right now, which is what i actually want to do.
this Shopify program would have been a lifesaver. we need way more Shopifys in the world.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
GP went to an Ivy league. Totally possible
Given the amount, that's actually fairly unlikely to be from the Ivy League education. Generally Ivy League schools cost less (sometimes way less) than public schools unless your family makes more than ~130-150k combined and/or has fairly substantial assets. One possible way for it to happen is if a student's parents have a high income, are unwilling to pay for the student's education and force the student to shoulde…
in my case this is pretty much what happened, except with the singapore government loaning money at 10% compound interest via a scholarship, which i had to break due to being assigned to a terrible job post graduation.
i may be book smart but ive made some colossal screwups in my life.
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#39Wait how do they make money out of this. They're paying salary to people that can't yet code?
I've seen companies strugle to make money with mid level devs.
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#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given the amount, that's actually fairly unlikely to be from the Ivy League education. Generally Ivy League schools cost less (sometimes way less) than public schools unless your family makes more than ~130-150k combined and/or has fairly substantial assets. One possible way for it to happen is if a student's parents have a high income, are unwilling to pay for the student's education and force the student to shoulde…
The Ivy no-loan policies are a relatively recent development.
My impression is that at least for the last two decades, loans have made up a significant minority of Ivy league financial aid and most of it has come in the form of grant money. I think loans started getting phased out right around 15 years ago.