How does Lambda School handle tuition?
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No tuition until you’re making $50k+ as a software engineer, then 17% of salary for two years, capped at $30k total
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This sounds great. I wonder how you enforce it though. How do you know people's salaries? What happens if someone changes country, how do you keep track? Or do you just trust people to comply by themselves?
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Buying data from payroll providers and getting tax returns
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Wait, does that mean that anyone can find out anyone else's salary if they pay these data providers?? O_O
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(It sounds like Lambda School is doing it for good reasons, and with consent; I'm just wondering about others!)
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Only with authorization
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Does everyone know you can do a programming "nano degree" with Udacity for $500?
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There are a lot of video classes that are cheap
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There are. What is better about a "boot camp"?
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Personalized assistance and community. Makes all the difference.
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1500 hours of personalized, reactive instruction is the hard part. Video lectures is the easy part.
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I find the videos great. In my degree 30yrs ago it was much harder. All you had were lecture notes and a text book.
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As an Instructional designer, I’d say there are benefits to both models. Yes, videos feel “better” compared to text, but the responsiveness of in-person feels superior to video. When learning new skills, I think it’s safe to say: Tell < Show < Do/Experience.
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I don't think the medium is as important, the format and interaction is. Pre-recorded is hard.
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Charge the rich kids 40k, give some other folks entrance gratis.
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How about no.
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40k is too low? Yr probably right.
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Dude but seriously, even if we ignore the total evil of the proposal how do you imagine it happening? Red commissars with guns working closely with IRS to determine who's rich? :)
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Y’all, this is just how normal college works, we just frame it as a gift to the poor (scholarship) instead of a tax on the rich
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Colleges are different beasts, they are often non-profit / have access to government grants. I would also suggest US colleges are not a great example of how education should be financed. :)
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You’re right! We should just have the government expropriate the capital directly from the rich kids and disburse it to the less wealthy via a needs-based allotment. Even more direct. I love it. Why hasn’t anyone come up with this before?
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But nevertheless. How about no.
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