Inspire and aspire
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A few days ago, we spent some time talking to coding students eager to learn how to jump into software development careers. Hereβs a bit more about our trip to Launch Academy in Boston.
Click here to see the full blog post
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Cool! You don't happen to have a recording of the talk lying around somewhere? ^^
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Always nice to see people discovering Vivaldi and it's team!
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Great to hear they're using Vivaldi and it was very nice to send someone of the Vivaldi team over.
But let's be serious here: You cannot learn how to code in a little more than a month, let alone find a job afterwards. This company is apparently charging 17500 Dollars for such a "bootcamp", seems shady to me.
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@luetage said in Inspire and aspire:
You cannot learn how to code in a little more than a month
You can, but you won't learn all the tricks that go into optimising algorithms and the things that let you write good code - that takes practice and a fair bit of instruction.
Also, this seems specifically aimed at web developers - if you really narrow down your focus it might just be doable.
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@LonM No idea. But yeah, the price seems kinda fair considering they got to meet a Vivaldi dev ^^
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@luetage: 17500 bucks seems a lot of money for two months of classes. But this is the Land of the Free, where getting an education is a privilege only for those who can afford it, so it doesn't really surprise me...
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@Komposten said in Inspire and aspire:
Cool! You don't happen to have a recording of the talk lying around somewhere? ^^
+1 on this post. This sounds too interesting to pass up. Not to mention pass on. Going by the blog post the attendees seemed to enjoy meeting someone like GMG for inspiration and guidance. C'mon Vivaldi give. The blog post is only the tease. Please release a recording of the "meet and greet"/"Q and A". No.. really give.
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@luetage said in Inspire and aspire:
@LonM No idea. But yeah, the price seems kinda fair considering they got to meet a Vivaldi dev ^^
$1700 is way too pricey for 10 weeks and a meet and greet. Then again, this is the USA where it's survival of the richest.
The boot campers must have been given some high priced rooms and meals at the most high priced Boston restaurants.
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@Para-Noid You're missing a zero there. Also I remember seeing documentaries about so called coding bootcamps some years ago. If I remember correctly they tried to bring coding to a coal mining communities and provided inadequate training and there's now a class action lawsuit going on. Has nothing to do with this program of course, but it's clear that there's money to be made. Promise people a good future and they will invest in themselves.
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@luetage I wasn't criticizing the concept. The price tag is bit pricey. I'm sure the class action lawsuit was a result of poor training. Not based on the tuition fee. Coal miners are not by nature stupid.
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@komposten: There's no recording unfortunately but we plan to do something similar for the community in the future
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@Para-Noid How things have changed. When I was young I passed a few preliminary tests and an interview to attend a one month course learning Fortran programming. I was paid while attending the course (not a lot, but enough to live on). Those who passed the course got offered a job. I moved on to greater things.
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@Para-Noid Yes, it's unfortunate that there's no video ...that I know of. It was nice to have it a little informal so that no one was shy about asking questions. On the other hand, it turned out very nicely and is kind of a shame not to have a recording.
Part of enjoying a moment is not anticipating all aspects of the future I guess Β―\(γ)/Β― but there will be other opportunities. -
@Pesala Yes, I do hope that the States can reverse course on how expensive education is there. I volunteered at a local public high school teaching computer science last year, and most kids there were going on to college despite it being a title 1 school. But I can't imagine the burden of those student loans for families and students there. I am thankful every day to have had a public university in Iceland that costs less than kindergarten in the States.
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