[keithpeter]

"Every year, dozens of new schools open, promising to teach anyone who can type the skills necessary to make a career in software development."

OK, so people want an accessible route into the very basics. Where are the Community Colleges? In the UK, your local Further Education college will do you the very basics for not much money as an evening class.

[reustle]

They are there, but their curriculums are extremely outdated most of the time.

[walshemj]

The cisco academy approved evening class ones are good we had 20 switches and 20 routers to play with at Mender College in the UK but it was about £500/£600 per quarter (free if you are unemployed)

[keithpeter]

CISCO was very much the gold standard, I'm thinking more like html -> client side -> server side (simple) -> server side (more complex).

PS: I'm glad it worked for you.

[keithpeter]

Well they need a flexible accreditation route then don't they?

UK: I could get short (18 hour) courses accredited by writing a submission including Bloom Cognitive Domain style outcomes and an assessment plan in a couple of months. We made liberal use of e.g. in the assessment criteria so that the criteria could remain valid for a year or five even though the platform, language and methods could change as needed.

[flukus]

They are learning to code, they particulars of the technology shouldn't really matter.

[flukus]

What's your government been like lately? In Australia they've been trying hard to funnel all the community college money into dodgy private trainers.