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

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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Re:Making people code is sadism.

[CaptainDork]

This.

I've been fielding questions about, "Should my kids learn to code?"

I counter with, "Should your kid learn to play the piano?"

I point out that for any track, only a few kids will excel, a few more will be mediocre, and most will come to hate the goddam piano or coding and the asshats who tortured them.

Kids should be to coding to see if they have the aptitude and hunger for it.

If not, hand them a guitar.

If that's not their thing, try dancing, then the sciences, woodworking, metalworking, canoeing, track, other sports ...

Find out what they are good at and encourage them.

As for code, it's not suitable for any except the exceptional.