Low-income students can soon get federal aid to attend coding schools

This reminds me of those University of Phoenix MBAs a few years ago.<p>I don&#x27;t know what it&#x27;ll take to fix higher education in the US, but opening up public funding options to for profit companies that already have issues on placement and average salary statistics[0] doesn&#x27;t look like it&#x27;s the right approach.<p>0 - <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;coding-bootcamps-have-no-standard-measurements-for-job-placement-rates-2015-10" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.businessinsider.com&#x2F;coding-bootcamps-have-no-stan...</a>

This is not a good idea.<p>I&#x27;ve been part of the hiring committees at a handful of companies and there is a big difference between coding schools and real degrees.<p>That being said, I&#x27;ve yet to interview a candidate who attending a coding school who truly understands software development at any acceptable level to be hired. Maybe for basic web design and very limited front end work these people will find jobs but I fear they will be severely disappointed when trying to make a career.

Why does the government think software development jobs can be done by the equivalent of people who have gone to a trade school for one semester? I don&#x27;t see the government pushing finance career or lawyer boot camps. I wonder how the DOE even made the decision of which boot camps to partner with.

Where are the grants to train financial traders, corporate lawyers, C-suite &quot;captains of industry&quot;, politicians, etc? Or simply doctors, engineers, etc?<p>Those groups don&#x27;t want to be inundated with new recruits, depressing their salaries, not to mention standards, you say?<p>I see.

As &quot;coding&quot; becomes increasingly mainstream, tools and automation grow in sophistication, Moore&#x27;s Law dwindles, and problems become exhausted and are not replaced (e.g., move the entire economy onto the web) - I worry that this profession is overhyped. These kids might be late to the race.

I think this is a step in the right direction to address the issue of computer science education and&#x2F;or coding classes only being accessible to kids from privileged backgrounds. Ultimately, if this is successful (and I know I&#x27;m wishing too much at this point), it can lead to greater diversity in the tech workforce or even in academia.

Here come the grifters! The U.S really needs a counterpart to the U.K&#x27;s Ofsted agency to do summary executions of substandard education providers.

Oh great more developer puppy mills, except this time secured by the federal government!<p>What a great handout.

Prepare for the rapid inflation of coding school tuitions.

Is anyone actually hiring people solely on them having completed a coding bootcamp?

Just what low income students are looking for.

So more discrimination. Yes!