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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.
but all education is hurting. I work in "traditional" higher ed, and our enrollment is down too. Basically, the trump economy is so damn good that people can get jobs without having to pay the education shakedown first. Bad for bootcamps and middle ranking state schools, but great for workers.
It's twice as bad as too-old.
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.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
... what is the current environment?
In considering the current environment, ...
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
isn't that the point of childhood? to discover what interests you?
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would go to a coding school? Coding schools churn out code monkeys. There's nothing wrong with that but there are damn few code monkey jobs to go around between outsourcing and H1-Bs. You're typically competing with kids rocking real degrees (e.g. a C.S. degree from a State University). You're better off saving your money and spending time on a git hub account.
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I can see the value of some introductory coding courses, enough that you could build a Word or Excel macro. Mind you, one of the worst coding jobs I ever had was "fixing" a PHP-based web app written by an "amateur" (and I use the word loosely) coder who seemed to barely know what functions were. It was just a mass of PHP spaghetti code pages with inconsistent variable naming and non-existent indenting. I've seen similar bad coding in MS Access applications.
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Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
would go to a trade school?
higher ed has loans that can't be discharged. Schools like this do not.
Who in their right mind run up loans to 100K at University just to work at Starbucks?
They should of wen't to a reputable school like DeFry.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
And they know they are going to get sued so they shut down instead.
Kind of like TrumpURichDadPoorDadStyleRealestate "schools", DaytradingForex "academies", and/or other unaccredited "learning" scams... Why people continue to fall for these predatory scams is beyond me...
People fall for them because they're desperate and they want to believe that being able to take out a "student loan" somehow is a sign the school is legit. Higher lending standards are anathema to these scams. And yes, they are scams because they don't give a realistic idea of what their job opportunities will be.
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Crazy idea: perhaps he was being ironic?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Let's open a surfing school in Alaska next.
Or a have a Tofu eating contest in Texas...
Snow driving course in Florida?
Most kids nowadays stop at the "mooching off parents" attempt. It's right after guitars.
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This is true only if they were forced to code in PHP.
I counter with, "Should your kid learn to play the piano?"
I don't think that's a fair comparison. Knowing how to play the piano is not a transferable skill outside of music. It is something of personal interest.
Yet basic coding, even if it's just writing a short script is transferable to business, engineering, accounting, all fields of science and technology, and increasingly relevant to trades too. The number of people who come to me because the button on their spreadsheet is not working when it only runs 5 lines of VBA and they don't know what those lines mean or why the problem is that when they deleted a column the issue is that [A5] no longer points to the right place is incredible.
Much like basic algebra can solve a whole lot of real world problems such as figuring out what continuously consumable item is cheaper to purchase. You may not know you're doing algebra, but you're doing algebra.
Yes, and the responsibilities of parents to help enable it.
Right.
I'm 71 and I remember back in the late 50s and early 60s, every high school graduate who went on to college went to engineering.
Only those few predisposed graduated.
The others wasted time and money.
The few who did graduate mostly sucked and got jobs looking at instruments on the units here at one of the local refineries.
Fads come and go.
Talent is forever, and very picky.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.