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by dogma1138 4106 days ago
12K$ tuition, a contract that forces you to not only accept any job offers but also relocate for them... eh ok...

Most public 2-year collages cost 3-5K (Google, not experience so forgive me if I'm off by a bit, and yes that doesn't cover board and living expenses but neither does the 12K for the 7 months you go to this school) a year, you can get an associate in applied Science degree in programming for about the same costs as that course and most likely lower.

This looks more like an indenture scam than a coding school. And while their teaching might be top notch you will probably won't be hired into a top tier company with a 100K+ salary just because you've attended an online course no matter how good it was.

At best you will end up working for some filling some low paid job for some generic software company.

What sad is that they are also most likely being paid by the companies they arrange jobs for just like any other recruitment company does.

Their curriculum is also a bit meh, I really don't see the value of coding schools that don't integrate math into their curriculum. I'm sorry but there's a good reason why college degrees in Comp. Sci or Software Engineering are mostly maths. It's fairly tough facing actual programming challenges without it, now I'm not saying every programmer, eh sorry "coder" has to have MSc level of math but quite a bit of it is actually important into forming how a programmer "thinks" even if they are not directly implementing it in their programming.