These are all programs that are at least 2 years long and act as alternatives to a typical CS degree.
Originally planned for release on April 10th, 2017 but stuff happens.
After interviewing with a few of the new and upcoming alternative long-term programs for CS education, I wanted to provide others a brief overview of how they operate differently.Most coding bootcamps are 2 to 4 months (8 to 12 weeks) long.These programs instead act as alternative options to a CS degree which is usually 4 years long.
Common Patterns Found
gamification
thorough admissions process
all these programs will accept someone who is at least 18 years but some of them have upper age limits
not about learning Python but about understanding methods/routes and understanding OOP fundamental concepts so you could easily translate that syntax
C projects don’t stop
next 3 months
systems administration
devops
next 6 months
full-time internship this can turn into job
full-time job
next 9 months
full-time specialization
part-time
if a bunch of people in your cohort are interested in something specific - then that is a specialization that is created - has to be at least 4 people in a specialization
no set group of specializations because industry changes every year
specialization can be done part-time –> meant with full-time job
others are back full-time with specialization b/c they didn’t get full-time job after 6 months or they choose hiatus/quit
majority choose part-time
cohort demographics (January 2017)
50% female, 30 or 40%
50% POC
average age range
most of students are in mid-20s to 30s
right out of high school
at least 18
40’s, 50’s, 58 is oldest we’ve gotten
are any of projects given by a contract
all are created by staff here
staff members are not experts in front-end/UX/UI field
so some you can collaborate with mentors
can you give me examples of jobs folks from your cohort have gotten
systems administration/devops roles
2 people with Apple doing SRE
2 people with Dropbox doing SRE
1 with Docker as SWE
1 with LinkedIn as SWE
2 people with medical tech company as SWE intern
full-time jobs right after Holberton but it’s definitely not the expectation
3 with scality as junior SWE
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I would recommend using the game Lightbot to prepare.
A bulk of their admissions process to getting into a piscine involves solving puzzles exactly like ones you would find playing Lightbot but a bit more complicated.
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