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The Academy For Software Engineering: a High School For Developers

Posted by Unknown on from the start-'em-young dept.

rjmarvin writes "The Academy for Software Engineering, right off of Manhattan's Union Square, is in its second year of educating students for a future in computer science and software engineering. No entrance exams, no admission standards, just an opportunity for any student interested in software to take specialized classes like robotics and programming, go on trips to companies like Google and Facebook, and spend summers interning at Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase before heading to college and into the workforce, powering the next wave of innovation as members of the tech workforce in New York's burgeoning 'Silicon Alley.'"

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  1. uhh... by buddyglass · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No entrance exams, no admission standards...

    So is it absurdly expensive or do they use a lottery system?

  2. The education part sounds great... by Bob_Who · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But why should you do evil and work for the criminals in the financial sector? Have you no sense of ethics ?

    Just because an inner city kid is poor and needs a free education doesn't mean he should do the dirty work.

    JPMorgan owes a lot more than 13 billion and a free tech farm for grooming new corporate fall guys.

    Why should crime pay when its too big to fail, with labor that is too small to pay, except for the dirty work.

    I'm glad for the free school but I can't help but be cynical about Wall Street.

    1. Re:The education part sounds great... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      This post is "insightful?" Since when is profit bad? Without profit, you would have literally nothing except what you could physically make with your own hands. No food, no clothes, and especially no electronics or computers. Who do you think finances all these companies, fairies? No, Wall Street and their investors. So get off your high horse and stop complaining about "criminals" in Wall Street you Communist! Go live with nothing, and I mean nothing, for a year then I'll listen. Until then you're nothing but a hypocritical Communist agitator.