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lambdacsa-syllabus
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Lambda School (YC S17) | CS & Web Development Instructor (Part-Time and Full-Time), AI Instructor (Part-Time), Cryptography/Security/Blockchain Instructor (Part-Time) | Pleasanton, CA or REMOTE | https://lambdaschool.com We're a revolutionary new school, backed by Y Combinator and the top investors in Silicon Valley, that trains people to be world-class software engineers for free, in exchange for a share of their future income. Our core, full-time CS + Web Dev class is now well-established and growing rapidly. We're making it available part-time starting in December, and need instructors to help scale that and make that possible. We're also creating "graduate" evening classes to help existing engineers gain skills that make them more valuable (starting with AI/ML, cyprography, etc). You'd be responsible for teaching students, helping ite
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rate on and develop curriculum, and overall helping students succeed in their careers. You can see the full curriculum for our CS classes here: https://github.com/LambdaSchool/LambdaCSA-Syllabus. We offer competitive engineering salary, equity, and benefits. Email careers@lambdaschool.com with resume or CV.
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2017)
I'd agree that its more, but not much more, still closer to bootcamp than CS degree. unless there's more beyond what you posted here https://github.com/LambdaSchool/LambdaCSA-Syllabus#project12 it really seems a very quick march through some basic computing concepts and some practical skills using the tech du jour with a goal of getting people to a point they can get info into and out of a data store and present it on a web page and then interview well. Nothing wrong with that and done well can launch people into careers... I really don't know what that's worth but 30k for 6months ish feels a bit off to me. But I think if you then asked your students at the end to give a summary of what computer science is, what are the problems, and the broad dimensions of the subject are they might struggle.... you also use the word engineering, again
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, I think asking your students to summarize the broad areas of software engineering I think they'd struggle. Or at least what's presented doesn't fill me with confidence. But ask them to summarize web development, I think they'd give a reasonable answer.
In Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job

Launch HN: Lambda School (YC S17) – CS education that's free until you get a job

Hey HN, We're Lambda School (https://lambdaschool.com/computer-science). We train people to become software engineers, and we charge nothing until a student gets a software job that pays more than $50k/yr. At that point we take 17% of income for two years (capped at a maximum of $30k total). There are so many people held back from a high quality education simply because they can't afford the cost and/or risk. Even if you can get student loans, four years and a potential six figures of student loans is a daunting proposition, especially if you come from a lower-income background. New alternatives, such as code bootcamps, either require expensive loans or tens of thousands of dollars in cash up front, which most people don't have, and they vary widely in quality. This leaves a lot of very smart people working for not much money. We're diffe
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rent. We're an educational institution that owns the risk: if you don't get a good job, we don't get paid. We do everything in small, interactive, online classes with world-class instructors (currently from Stanford, Berkeley, Hack Reactor, etc.). Our curriculum goes a lot deeper than code bootcamps as well; we use C++ and spend a lot of time with lower-level algorithms, data structures, architecture, scaling, etc. The full curriculum is here: https://github.com/LambdaSchool/LambdaCSA-Syllabus. Happy to answer any questions and looking forward to hearing feedback!
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Lambda School | Computer Science Instructor, Machine Learning Instructor | REMOTE | https://lambdaschool.com/computer-science Lambda School is a full online computer science education that is free for students until they get a job. After they get a job we take a small percentage of income for two years, only if they're making above $50,000. Our goal is to make a high-quality education completely risk-free, and make it easy for people to become skilled, regardless of their current status in life. We're looking for people who both love programming and love to teach. Empathy is very important, as you'll be dealing with folks from all walks of life. Some of our students have never been given many opportunities in this life, and working with them is especially important. We go much deeper than "code bootcamps." Our current offering is six mont
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hs of full-time instruction. You can see the full curriculum here https://github.com/LambdaSchool/LambdaCSA-Syllabus. We teach CS principles, and the vehicles for teaching those are JavaScript/React/Node and C++. We have a small core of instructors (from Stanford, Berkeley, Hack Reactor), and are looking to expand our core of instructors as we grow the number of students we can accept. We are announcing our funding very soon, and based on your usage of this site you've definitely heard of who funded us. email careers@lambdaschool.com
In Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)

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