How St. Louis Is Bootstrapping Hundreds of Programmers

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday March 12, 2014 @02:49AM from the water-twice-a-day-plant-in-full-sunlight dept.

itwbennett writes "The MOOC (massive open online course) failure rate is notoriously high — only 1% of people who take the beginning computer science programming class, CS50, that Harvard offers over the EdX online platform complete it. A new effort in St. Louis called LaunchCode is changing that — and solving the city's programmer shortage. For the past several weeks, about 300 hardy souls have been gathering in a downtown St. Louis library to listen to the CS50 lectures and work together on the various programming problem sets. But the support offered by the all-volunteer run LaunchCode doesn't end with meet space. They're also doing an end-around on the traditional coder hiring process by pairing the students who complete the course with experienced programmers in one of more than a 100 tech companies who are looking for talent."

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Re:NOT a programmer shortage. It's a SALARY SHORTA by Grishnakh · 2014-03-12 03:48 · Score: -1, Troll

That's no worse than being surrounded by idiot, moron, Republicans.
Smart people know not to live in Missouri at all, in any part of the state. The Republican parts are full of morons who think "a woman's body has ways to shut that down", and St. Louis is one of the most crime-ridden, dangerous, and economically blighted cities in the country. There has to be something wrong with you to live in that state.