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Coding School 'The Iron Yard' Announces Closure of All 15 Campuses (ajc.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the difficult-decisions dept.

McGruber writes: The Iron Yard, a South Carolina-based coding school with 15 locations, announced that it plans to close all of its campuses. The four-old company posted a message on its website delivering the news: "In considering the current environment, the board of The Iron Yard has made the difficult decision to cease operations at all campuses after teaching out remaining summer cohorts." The note said the company will finish out its summer classes, including career support.

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  1. Seems the scam has run its course by gweihir · · Score: 3, Informative

    And the stream of victims is drying up now. Good.

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    Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
  2. Re:Bootcamp bubble popped... by ShanghaiBill · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even if they hadn't, whatever they'd been coding in would be obsolete.

    I went to college 35 years ago, and learned C, along with data structures, algorithms, and TCP/IP networking.
    Amount of what I learned that is now obsolete: 0%.