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What Happened When a French Billionaire Built a Free Coding School in California – Bloomberg
December 6, 2016 | CIO Corner, Coding, Workplace
Things didn’t go quite the way administrators were expecting….
Coding boot camps are everywhere these days, promising to arm you with the most highly sought skill in the modern economy: computer programming. While many programs charge thousands of dollars for just a few months of instruction, one school, started in Paris by the French billionaire Xavier Niel, offers a three-year curriculum for free. This week Bloomberg Technology’s Sarah McBride and Marie Mawad report on Ecole 42’s newly-opened Silicon Valley branch, which is hoping to repeat the Paris school’s success in training underprivileged youth. But things haven’t quite turned out the way administrators were expecting.
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Source: What Happened When a French Billionaire Built a Free Coding School in California – Bloomberg
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