Seattle-based tech-education firm offers women-only coding boot camp, real jobs

Submitted by Mastodon on Tue, 2013-06-25 11:26

Article here. Excerpt:

'Employers are avoiding liberal arts majors like the plague. As the Wall Street Journal has noted, recent college grads with English, philosophy and history majors face unemployment rates just below 10 percent.

But, wait. There’s more. Turns out, a person with a passable technical background can spend a few intensive, hands-on weeks in a boot camp learning how to write code. That person can then waltz directly into a well-paying gig in the tech industry.

Seattle-based Code Fellows, a company that specializes in computer-programming education, offers the boot camps in Ruby on Rails, an open-source web application framework.

Code Fellows is now rolling out a boot camp exclusively for women interested in breaking into the software industry.

The July 8 to August 23 female-only boot camp is intended to address the dearth – you may have noticed it — of women working in computer programming.'

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But it's all abt marketing to so many "modern" women's sense of needing "special treatment". Slap a label "for women" on any product or service and it'll sell. "Insect spray specially formulated for women's homes and patios" and your sales will jump. Guaranteed.

OK, so let's see. Say I want to become a nurse. But I will be among only a few men in the classes. So I don't go do it? Do I petition the medical college to create special classes for me for male nursing students only? Maybe ask for male instructors only, too?

Imagine if a male-only crash course in licensed practical nursing were offered somewhere. What do you suppose the reaction would be?

There's this though: A lot of ppl can learn to program. But not everyone. Some folks try hard, but just can't seem to get it. It's like anything else that requires a particular disposition and neuronal structures. Example: I doubt I could ever have become a pro QB. You need a lot of "natural ability". Either you have it, or you don't. Same with things like programming, though I am sure being a QB is a lot harder. Programmers don't have 300-lb men trying to knock them down while trying to write code. :)

Also, you have to want to do it. Many are chosen, few are called, and even fewer stick with it. There's a reason why there's such a major shortage of s/w hacks in the economy.

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Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2013-06-25 16:32