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Anyone have any experience with this program? As I understand it, invitees attend a four week intensive coding boot camp and top performers are selected for further training, all free.

I know someone who is headed to the boot camp but I'm leery of the "free lunch" aspect of this. Is there a catch somewhere?

https://www.42.us.org/


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Last time I attended a boot camp, some asshole with a strange looking hat shoved a rifle in my hand and told me to sing "I Want to Kill Charley Cong!" What's this other boot camp you're talking about? And yes there were free lunches after about 200 push ups and some crab crawls.


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Nothing I have confirmed for my self, but it is my understanding that they will teach your the meaning of life.



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Nothing I have confirmed for my self, but it is my understanding that they will teach your the meaning of life.


As well as the universe and everything.



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I do not like their website. Looks like a scam or informercial to me. I like accredited universities. They can be a ripoff too, but less so.
Anything that screams FREE!!! is a turn off to me.
 
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Last time I attended a boot camp, some asshole with a strange looking hat shoved a rifle in my hand and told me to sing "I Want to Kill Charley Cong!" What's this other boot camp you're talking about? And yes there were free lunches after about 200 push ups and some crab crawls.


Damn...what did dinner cost?




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Damn...what did dinner cost?[/QUOTE]

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That website looks like a cult recruitment. Very odd.
 
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I think it’s amazing that a French billionaire (Xavier Niel) wants to help students get a free tuition. To develop engineering skills without being in debt or worrying about money is an incredible improvement of the current model of education in the US. They even have a great video with a lot of popular faces, from SnapChat’s Evan Spiegel to Facebook’s David Marcus, Twitter’s Jack Dorsey etc.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse...s-us-alexei-chemenda


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That website looks like a cult recruitment. Very odd.

Some tech companies are cult like themselves.

Identifying new talent is worth money.


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as 41 (how apropos) points out it's backed by a french billionaire, I have a feeling he's looking for innate talent for some other project.
 
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I wouldn't be surprised if it's legit. The other place I've seen where tuition is free is that you sign an agreement to pay back your tuition from your future earnings. It's a percentage of how much you earn capped up to the amount of the tuition. In a way they're saying their training is good enough to guarantee you a job.



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they will teach your the meaning of life.

You don't have to go there - just watch the movie. Wink

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