[Ayraa]

A lot of the students enrolled hoping to get a job later.

The scam aside, this goes to show that too many people still believe in the old system: learn skill in school -> get job. Especially that one student who lamented now he can't prove he completed the lessons from this bootcamp. Would a no name bootcamp impress any employer?

Learning in a classroom (or via Slack chats!) is not enough. It's just the first step. The key is applying it as soon as possible by doing projects, for yourself or for someone else. For free in the beginning if need be. Employers now want to see proof you can do something, not a piece of paper showing you can. Plus publishing these projects online can help employers / recruiters discover you.

Too many parents are still teaching their kids a paint by the numbers formula they knew for life: go to school -> land job. Work there -> rise through the ranks. The good news is, there's a hundred different ways to land a job now. The bad news is, trying, failing at, trying again at those different ways can be hard.

[49531]

As a former instructor at a code school I always told students that learning to code would put them on a successful trajectory more than make them instantly valuable. It's not an on/off situation. A good engineer is always learning and improving.

Code schools too often make it look like you attend and then succeed, there's a lot more than goes on in between.

[Florin_Andrei]

> this goes to show that too many people still believe in the old system: learn skill in school -> get job

I would say it proves the opposite. Those people got scammed by a shitty little outfit, here today, gone tomorrow. That's much less likely to happen when you go to, you know, a real school.