"The Flatiron School started two years ago and teaches students, both high school grads and college grads, how to become software engineers in a twelve week course that costs $15,000."
Wow. It's a good thing that whole "software engineering" thing isn't a profession or anything. I wish this had been available 25 years ago, before I wasted 4 years and roughly 9000 hours (4 years, 2 semesters per year, 15 weeks per semester, 15 class hours per week = 1800 class hours; by their class+lab+deployment numbers, a 5/1 ratio) getting a bachelors.
Plus, even if I had decided to stick to the BA, on their schedule I could have packed all that into a little over 2 years, instead of 4.
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"The Flatiron School started two years ago and teaches students, both high school grads and college grads, how to become software engineers in a twelve week course that costs $15,000."
Wow. It's a good thing that whole "software engineering" thing isn't a profession or anything. I wish this had been available 25 years ago, before I wasted 4 years and roughly 9000 hours (4 years, 2 semesters per year, 15 weeks per semester, 15 class hours per week = 1800 class hours; by their class+lab+deployment numbers, a 5/1 ratio) getting a bachelors.
Plus, even if I had decided to stick to the BA, on their schedule I could have packed all that into a little over 2 years, instead of 4.