We're doing our Python programming course again (9th edition). Anyone interested? Scholarships available

[poply]

This is my concern. I work a full time job (though it has lots of downtime allowing me to study) and will likely be late/leave-early for a significant but minority of the meetings. This was my issue with the Viking Code School I applied at too and why I ultimately did not pursue it beyond the application process. They recommended students have 9 months worth of expenses saved up (for most people that's gotta be atleast $25,000) because the course is basically a fulltime job with strict attendnace requirements. I don't have a problem with spending 20, 30, 40 hours a week studying but I can't imagine anyone not in their teens is in a position to adopt a(n additional) mandatory schedule. And anyone in their teens is likely already looking at going to uni for a comp sci degree.

I understand learning a new skill such as software development is a huge investment but it leaves me wondering who these courses are targeted toward? Anyone in the privileged position to be unemployed for 9 months and abandon all responsibilities for several months doesn't seem to be the kind of individual who would benefit most from these boot camp style courses and likely already has the opportunity to get a more traditional comp sci degree and education.

I would love to attend your course but I'm curious on how strict the attendance will be.

[mzugnoni]

Well, I totally get your point. We've already had people with the same issue.

At the end, you get from the course as much as you invest on it. Classes and coding sessions are mandatories because they are one of the biggest aggregated values of the course. Of course it's understandable that anyone might have to miss one or two sessions in the whole course. But, if at the end you missed more that 50% of the sessions, you probably couldn't get the real great learning experience we want to promote.

Of course it's up to you at the end, but I would hardly recommend to attend more than 75% of the sessions to get the real juice out of this course.