[CuriousNinja]

> Most enrollees will finish in six months or less

I am not convinced that you can learn the skills and knowledge necessary to be an effective software engineer in six months. However I think it will be an awesome avenue to improve your skills if you already have some background.

[dagw]

I am not convinced that you can learn the skills and knowledge necessary to be an effective software engineer in six months.

Of course not, that takes years of practical hands on experience to learn. Many people can work as programmers for a decade without mastering those skills.

6 months could however be enough to learn enough to a start being productive as a junior member of a larger development team.

[JKCalhoun]

Maybe six years? Sixteen?

I fully expect new engineers to come in very green. There is so much breadth to software engineering that I understand that they will learn half of what they need to know on the job.

Never mind that, six years from now, much will have all changed anyway. (I've been at this a few decades now and, with Swift, I've now learned language #6 for my job.)

[rchaud]

Only the Android dev associate program is related to software engineering. I don't think anybody going into this program has expectations of acing a technical interview at Google with their Coursera certificate of completion.

But it might be attractive to people that are interested in exploring the area without the overhead of a full CS curriculum.

[xenihn]

this industry is full of people who have been working as professional software engineers for years and are still ineffective

[bluefirebrand]

I tend to agree, but code bootcamp grads spend even less time and get hired sometimes so...