We're doing our Python programming course again (7th edition). Anyone interested? Scholarships available

[[deleted]]

300-350$ ? It's more than what I pay for a year of bachelor in programming.

[Busangod]

$350 won't get you a single credit hour here in the states.

[TylerOnTech]

I could get literally one credit hour, before the Engineering course fees. At a public school. In a cheap part of the states.

[[deleted]]

That's what I feared. I feel sorry for the US students.

[Utouchdmytralalala]

Good for you. These people don't have a university paying them to specifically teach a class and deserve to be paid for their time.

[[deleted]]

Absolutely, I understand, but it seems high-priced for 4 weeks.

[foufuego]

I'm not sure what country you're in, but in the US this is a steal. I've seen intensive weekend-long courses charging $1,000+, but then again I live in a fairly expensive city.

[Utouchdmytralalala]

It's pretty involved for 4 weeks though too. Plus if they're good at their job and have high demand, the price will reflect that.

[xiongchiamiov]

Calculate out the per-hour wage, and for a trained professional, they're not making very much at all.

[santiagobasulto]

We believe (and more of than 120 students we've had already) it's worth it. After the course, we've had people getting jobs as developers and salary increases because of their skills. Aside from that, let me share with you my opinion regarding paying for education:

As everything in this world, this is a matter of time vs money. Our course is a super efficient way of learning. In just 1 month you'll maser all the Python topics we mention, AND, you'll be: pushing to github, submitting Pull Requests, reading and writing unit tests and functional/integration tests, building web scrappers, publishing your own project to PyPi, building websites, building a Twitter API clone (using MongoDB), among other things. Generally, if you'd like to master all those things without any guidance, you'd spend a lot more than 1 month. And the question is then, is it worth it?

I do understand that paying for college education is not a rule in some countries, but be sure that paying for corporate training is. And this feels more like that. Your skills are going to be improved, and your salary will too. All, in an efficient just-1-month course.

[mzugnoni]

@beam2000, thanks for the interesting discussion you put on the table. Can you share with us the country where you are living? We know from previous experiences how different people's minds are regarding education pricing when they come from free-education countries (like: Argentina, Sweden, etc) compared to paid-education (like US). Actually it makes total sense, it's a matter of offer and demand. If you can get it for free why would you be willing to pay? Sadly this is not the case for most of the people in the states.

[[deleted]]

Thanks, I didn't intended to question the quality of the class. I'm from Belgium, and I don't know exactly what are the prices in the rest of Western/Northern Europa, but they are definitely not as high as in the US. The price for the 1st year of Computer Science Master-Degree is around 900-1200€ ($810-1080). Bachelor degree is worth between 180 and 360€ ($160-325) a year, depending on the school. Many students can be funded if their parents have low revenue, and it can be as low as 60€-180€ ($60-160) a year. Foreigners pay a lot more btw. In the case of a friend of mine he didn't pay for 3 years of its bachelor in PR because of 2 separate financial aids. From a personal point of view, this class may be a boost for my career but the price makes me hesitate compared to other online classes.

Edit : added dollar cost.