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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.
This place appeared to not teach general coding, but was focused on web development. It's not the equivalent of even a trade school. I suspect it's most useful for people who are already able to program but who want a crash course in web development. But it was the current fashion to panic that we don't have enough coders, and that everyone from kindergarteners to grandmas should be learning to "code", which created a market opportunity.
I suspect it's most useful for people who are already able to program but who want a crash course in web development.
If you already know coding, you can learn webdev in a few days from free on-line tutorials or maybe a $20 book from Amazon.
everyone from kindergarteners to grandmas should be learning to "code"
Nearly everyone can benefit from coding. I have written many Google Sheets triggers, plugins for Quickbooks, etc. for friends and relatives. These are usually a dozen or so lines of Javascript, and maybe a few regexes. If you can code, this is trivial, but if you can't then you are stuck.
All of these people took algebra in high school. None of them have used algebra, even once, since HS. So it is silly that our schools teach algebra and not coding ... and please don't say "You need algebra to understand coding" because that is patently false. I have taught 4th graders to code, and they certainly haven't learned algebra.
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.
And the stream of victims is drying up now. Good.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
They should of wen't to a reputable school like DeFry.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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%.
If you already know coding, you can learn webdev in a few days from free on-line tutorials or maybe a $20 book from Amazon.
Not that this place actually taught it, I dunno, but this is no longer true. Proper web development these days involves learning to integrate tons of really bad declarative "code" from conflicting committee-designed standards together in a way that runs on tons of different poorly or only partialy implemented browsers and then integrating that with whatever flavor of backend was popular back when your predecessor implemented the last backend refactor. A good web developer knows a crapton about a lot of really awful software, and has to constantly jam more crappy knowlege into their head, plus suffer the constant discouragement of watching something you spent weeks learning cold become obselete every week. And get paid crap. And deal with customers/bosses who want things they can't even describe. I have a lot of respect for the guys who tough those positions out... not all of them are smart, but they tend to be motivated and energetic, because they have to be.
But.. knowing coding you can at least still develop basic non-"webscale" UIs using a mostly-compatible subset of browser features. So you're in a heck of a lot better position than someone trying to pick it up cold.
Someone had to do it.
Long shot I know, but how about someone wanting to learn a trade?
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."