Lambda School leaked documents show poor performance over the last two years

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  • Jessie

    Tiny subset of JavaScript for ocap-safe universal mobile code

    I haven't tried it, but somewhere in that neighborhood: https://github.com/endojs/Jessie

  • missing-semester

    The Missing Semester of Your CS Education 📚

    I'm extremely skeptical of bootcamps, especially after learning that some of the TA's at Lambda are hired to help with teaching as little as two months into the program as students[0]. I guess that counts toward their "placement" stats!

    Not only that, but Lambda seems so desperate that they will offer a fresh grad at no cost to any company for a 4 week trial period. [1]

    I don't think I've seen a single hire out of a bootcamp work out in the end. Except a few cases where the person actually came from a STEM degree from a good school (and more crucially, already had some exposure to programming during the degree) but it's unclear to me that they actually needed the bootcamp and not just a good primer on modern software development and something like the Missing Semester [2] or a few classes at their school covering software engineering.

    [0] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...

    [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25138610

    [2] https://missing.csail.mit.edu/

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  • thonny

    Python IDE for beginners

    Python dependency management is quite adequate for teaching - all you need to know is how to pip-install packages, really. The real headaches don't show up until you have a large app with lots of dependencies.

    The other thing about Python is that, because it's already so popular for teaching, it has an ecosystem of tools around that. E.g. it has turtle graphics in the standard library (!), which is a very good way to explain loops, recursion etc for visual learners. There's also IDEs like https://thonny.org/ that visualize program execution step-by-step.

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