[sharksforcheap]

Thanks for the thoughtful response. I'm Tony, a co-founder at Catalyst.

There are a couple of interesting points to address here. One is that having an intense program could have a negative effect. In my experience teaching programming in immersion schools like this one, the students who stayed these kinds of hours knew they were going to work that hard from the beginning and just got more out of the program. I myself learned to code through an immersion school and felt more like I was missing out when went home at 7-8 than anything. We are looking for the type of person who wants this kind of all-encompassing program for 12 weeks.

I also think one-on-one tutors are great ideas, but for me personally being around a room full of other motivated people that are in my same position is so much more motivating.

I'd love to hear about what you think the 'wrong mentality' is. Feel free to ping me offline and let's chat.

[mikecane]

>>>I've been fed up lately with all the wrong people learning to program for the sake of learning to program.

Do you mean that from the perspective of having such people clogging resume inboxes with insufficient skills and experience?