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Steve Wozniak Announces Tech Education Platform 'Woz U' (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: Steve Wozniak, the Apple co-founder who changed the world alongside Steve Jobs, has today announced the launch of Woz U. According to the release, Woz U will start as an online learning platform focused on both students and companies that will eventually hire those students. Woz U is based out of Arizona, and hopes to launch physical locations for learning in more than 30 cities across the globe. At launch, the curriculum will center around computer support specialists and software developers, with courses on data science, mobile applications and cybersecurity coming in the future. Alongside the education platform, Woz U will also offer platforms for tech companies to recruit, train and retain their workforce through on-site customized programs and subscription-based curricula. There also will be a platform for K-12 students, which will be distributed to school districts, that will offer STEAM programs to identify talent and nudge those individuals into a tech-based career. And if that weren't enough, Woz U will eventually introduce an accelerator program "to identify and develop elite tech talent." Woz U also has an app on the App Store that will help people understand which field of tech they're best suited for, so they can set up their curriculum accordingly. Pricing has yet to be announced.
Nope at all.
Trump U.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
The best thing about this will be all the jokes about awful coders coming out the WozU! :)
(You'd think a PR person would have realized it was a terrible idea to name this thing "Woz U.")
The other story is still on the front page for fucks sake!
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Do the editors at slashdot communicate with each other at all? Do they check the recent articles to see if the story has already been done?
https://apple.slashdot.org/story/17/10/13/1915259/woz-wants-to-retrain-you-for-a-career-in-tech
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Similar to postgraduate education but without the assurance that students have foundation knowledge. At least, it's not another coding camp.
So headhunters for newbies: A business isn't going to pay for zero experience, so Woz U will be doing this for free.
There's no union for IT, such as doctors, lawyers or accountants have, so training is optional; resulting in whatever training corporate management deems necessary. See 'Dilbert' for examples.
Retaining a workforce is easy: Provide training, task rotation and pay rises. Particularly, the last one: If workers need to change employers to get a pay-rise, of course employees won't stay.
So, 'trades in schools'; like Google wants to do. A core curriculum is needed; at the least, to avoid 'VHS versus Betamax' troubles.
"... to identify and develop elite tech talent."
A combination of head-hunting and post-graduate education: A good idea but this is where education gets really expensive.
you just posted the same story less than 3 damn hours ago
I know its hard for you to pay attention, but for fucks sake
... the prospective student did not have to load an app on their (possibly iPhone only? since the link to the app points to itunes.apple.com) to evalute their skills.
What if the web site made the app an actual web interface where people can take the evaluation anonymously (well, as anonymously as the interwebs allow nowadays).
BTW have you ever had positive experiences with the itunes program when run on a Windows PC? A friend of mine has all sorts of unprintable comments to make about that Apple itunes program on a Windows PC.
Go ahead an say "he should be using a Mac" and I will point you to the video of Linus Torvalds sharing his opinion of Nvidia as my response.
Idk either.
seems awfully similar to:
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Another one! Why didn't he put his energy into inventing a new programming language. There's a desperate shortage of those, especially ones that look vaguely like C/C++ with the racism & misogyny taken out.
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WTF
Yeah but yesterday's posting was paid for by cnet. Today's reposting of the same news was paid for by techcrunch. Gotta impress some ads.