App Boot Camp | Imamother

Amarante

Tue, Apr 17 2018, 10:06 pm

Here's a ticket to a well paying career if you can get in

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0......html

“It was difficult to find a boot camp taking people who didn’t have a college education, or coming from underserved backgrounds, and giving them tools,” Mr. Papas said.

Then he found Access Code, a 10-month boot camp run by an organization called C4Q (formerly Coalition for Queens), which was designed to do exactly that. It offers a day or a nights-and-weekends program.
“Nearly 70 percent of Americans don’t graduate from college,” said Jukay Hsu, C4Q’s founder and chief executive. “What are the meaningful pathways to advance their careers and create the companies of the future?”

By June, the five-year-old program will have 483 graduates, all previously low-income. Half are female, half lack a college degree. Sixty percent are black or Latino, and 40 percent are immigrants.

Instead of demanding traditional credentials, the program evaluates applicants as they solve logic puzzles and spend two days learning basic coding. One in 10 is accepted. C4Q says that upon entering, those students are earning an average of $18,000 a year, but when they graduate and find work in software engineering —which almost all do — they make an average of $85,000.