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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.
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%.