Coding School General Assembly Raises $70M

Are these types of schools worth the cost for people? I'd love to hear from a student. I took a couple months off work to learn new skills and it cost me nothing (except rent and no income), just a lot of Googling and frustration. What's different about this? Is it the class setting + mentor structure that makes it worth it?

I have a gripe with all these online courses. They only target beginners or they target advanced users. I have done hours of googling to find a stuctured course which teaches &quot;intermediate&quot; CSS...I am not a CSS newbie but I am also not an expert who is interested in animations, etc<p>I can may be use bootstrap and make grid based layouts that are non responsive. I am yet to find a course which will help me make, lets say, a hacker news UI or reddit UI. I can guarantee you that all these courses fall short of that.

I dont want to sound like a dick - but how many coding schools equates to too many coding schools. I would love to see some stats on how many people are trying to attend these sort of things. At some point, supply is going out strip demand and its not going to be financially viable.

There&#x27;s a reason that in order to become an actual engineer you&#x27;re required to pass a professional engineering exam. In many states you&#x27;re literally breaking the law if you put PE on your business card[1].<p>Putting it mildly, with all of the asshats that can barely create CRUD apps calling themselves software engineers and making an amazing salary when compared to their pathetic skills its a wonder the median salary hasn&#x27;t plummeted like a rock.<p>I honestly think having someone legally responsible is necessary for proper programming and security practices to be put into place. It works with HIPAA and the real engineering profession. The people going through these classes are no more than weekend woodshop students and the spaghetti they string together will show them to be.<p>[1]<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sce.uhcl.edu&#x2F;helm&#x2F;SWEBOK_IEEE&#x2F;papers&#x2F;10%20reprint%205.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;sce.uhcl.edu&#x2F;helm&#x2F;SWEBOK_IEEE&#x2F;papers&#x2F;10%20reprint%205...</a>

General assembly mints genius&#x27;es. I went to MIT and can&#x27;t get admitted to their program.