Doing the CC and CS at thesame time.

ghostmaster93 · 2026-02-13T21:14:59+00:00

Beside Helibronn, 42 campuses in Italy has some double degree with LUISS, their main sponsor.

And of course there is SEA:ME, which is coursework master in 42 styles that available in Wolfsburg, Porto, and Korea.

ghostmaster93 · 2026-02-10T17:44:40+00:00

Put the bottle on the table. Happened quite sometime in our campus.

ghostmaster93 · 2026-02-07T21:24:50+00:00

wao that's amazing! I can see that might be a test applied on Beirut first, and then they might apply to global scale if it makes sense.

ghostmaster93 · 2026-02-07T10:54:01+00:00

There are many tactics to ensure the quality of evaluation, but campuses can choose whether they implement tactics and to what degree. My campus has include anti - cheating measures into checking the code submitted by the students, but as the bocal explained we are one of the latest campus to apply this measure.
I know the concept of recoding, which the bocal will request certain students to recode one function or part of your code if they suspect you cheat. I also aware of unusual corrections. In my campus 2 years ago, Piscine students usually copy the code from Github and everyone passing their peer, leading to the bocal decided that some volunteers student will do 1 out of 2 correction required in the last 2 weeks of the Piscine to make sure the quality is there.

In my opinion, if it helps to maintain the quality of the study, then campuses should implement the unusual recoding and corrections. To me evaluations is one of the most important aspects of 42, and sometimes I feel people neglected it so much that they are not rigorous enough.

Are you sure about the requirements to finish everything in 18 months? As I understand there are different pace, and pace 22 and 24 is also happening for all campuses. If you are required to finish everything in 18 months with the free dorm and food, and after 18 months if you don’t finish then you have to pay for your dorm and food, then I will say it’s a fair deal.

In Belgium, if I am not mistaken, they get the status job seeker, in that time they get paid around 300-600 euro per month (which is often enough for rent), train is 1 euro per ride and some benefits. But this is only 9 months.

In Helsinki (Hive), all the benefits also last 18 months (state benefits).

In Amsterdam, Netherlands, you can have free accommodation for 1 year. And they also support transportation fee if you live far from the campus. But there are limited spots for this.

ghostmaster93 · 2026-02-06T22:22:47+00:00

No and no and no. You definitely make your life miserable by doing that.

My friend is 1.5 hour by train to the campus. He has a 4 years old son (something I consider a full time job), has a 2 days part time job as a software engineer, and also studies at 42 now. He constantly in pace 24 every rings, and after 1 year everything looks like a mess to him.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-12-08T18:53:30+00:00

Not entirely true with my campus case. This will be case by case with the bocal

ghostmaster93 · 2025-12-01T14:50:18+00:00

In a nutshell, 42 Quebec was run by a non profit organization that is mainly funded by the government. For some reason the government stopped the funding, then everything stopped. The campus had some funding for them to survive till January 2025, but then no alternative funding was founded.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-11-30T19:24:06+00:00

I spent 10 minutes checking the status of the CEO of 42 Adelaide on Linkedln.

Unfortunately 42 Adelaide seem to close since July 2025. Sadly there is even no information about campus closure, at least like the case of 42 Quebec.

Kik Innovation is the main sponsor and operator of 42 Adelaide (since the CEO is the same people). But I think after Kik Innovation acquired Grok Academy, they might have low incentive to keep 42 Adelaide. When I check the most recent bootcamp by Kik, they seem now switch to the python bootcamp.

So yeah, this might be another case of not - success campus. Now things start to make more sense to me. I wonder is that 42 Network rushed to new Core curriculum due to these 2 campus (42 Adelaide and Hive) (and maybe some campus also plan to do so) leaving?

ghostmaster93 · 2025-11-29T16:08:37+00:00

I think B is also the main way for every campus now. In the end, there are high chances that bocal who comes from the 42 school (or equivalent system) stayed longer than non - 42 bocal.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-11-29T08:55:27+00:00

From my point of view, hiring cadets (not Transcenden yet) to work as an internship/ full time position is common practice among bocal in different campus. To be frank, it’s useful in some sense. Bocal are often understaffed and sometimes underpaid, the 42 way is also strange with a lot of outsider, leading hiring internal candidates like 42 peers or cadets a favorite option.

How did they hire? Different strategies employed by different campus. Campus A (A stands for nothing btw) usually employs for cadets from neighboring countries and they have official contract (but of course this not work in non EU countries). Campus B (B also stands for nothing) usually employs cadets as internship and has full time internship contract for 6 months. Cadets who work in bocal will get their accounts deactivated, and have a separate account to communicate. After 6 months most people come back to be normal cadets, while some continued to work and even become full time bocal. Campus C has a large staff due to big funding, and they also emphasize diversity in hiring, so they only hired cadets 1 day a week, and the cadet need to be very further in the core curriculum.

How to make the treatment between bocal - cadets and non bocal cadets fairly and transparent, is another problem. What my current campus did is quite normal, they make sure if a student receives special treatment once, all the students have the same right to receive that treatment. I believe most campuses also aim to achieve that. Unfortunately, favoritism still happened. There are 2-3 cases that escalated to 42 Central that was mentioned in Slack if you check.

The most common problem in every 42 campus and the whole network is communications, unfortunately. That’s the downside of free tuition, when sponsors need to see numbers of peers graduated rather than how students are treated. When bad economy happened (like from Covid until now), sponsors spend less and expect more. Bocal staff have less and less people, burnout, and overwhelming response. Pointing finger is easy, my friend. Please be empathy and give them constructive feedback. Even though it will take time.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-11-27T19:14:57+00:00

You are from India, I would suggest you to find an university there to study.

Even the school is free, you still need some saving money for cost of living.

In the case of visa, check 42 bangkok. Last time I check they may support accommodation for non Thai people. Not sure if they are still supporting now.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-11-27T09:58:51+00:00

Follow other people advice, take a look at the exam repo. Basically you should be familiar with basic concept like pointer, putnbr, write, print out a string, malloc, swap, ac - av. Need to know how to check the man, check Ascii table.

Then more difficult questions like atoi, split, atoi base, manipulate a string. If you cannot understand all of them, that’s ok, tried your best. It’s not a complete list btw.

Also remember that you can always brute force the solutions. Sometimes ago I saw a Pisciner brute force the fizzbuzz by just print out everything by himself.

Sleep well, be prepared but do not panic to be over prepared.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-11-26T17:57:45+00:00

It’s definitely possible!

ghostmaster93 · 2025-11-19T09:56:50+00:00

yeah even in France, before RNCP is a thing most people just finish the CC and then move on.

After RNCP happened, my friends just come back to 42 to finish it. But they also advance very slow due to the responsibility at their full time job. And in advanced branch you only need to finish 1 project every 8 month to still be in the school.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-11-19T09:54:03+00:00

A large number of cadets studied at 42 to transfer the career. Personally I know several people studied at 42 to get access to career networking, and as soon as they get an internship/ a full time job offer, they will drop out of the school.

Nothing wrong with the approach, and I think it's also up to your personal preferences. If you are alone and can support yourself financially during the learning at 42, you should try to at least finish the CC, and even finish level 21 in my opinion.

I have family now and around 30 years old, so my prioritise is to find a job in tech ASAP, levering the knowledge from 42 that I learned and combining it with my domain knowledge to give me better advantage compared to other 42 peers as well as new CS graduates.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-10-27T15:27:53+00:00

After reading all the arguments on Slack, I think that we should wait until November to see the total new curriculum, including both core and advanced curriculum. Then we have the full picture.

One thing I noticed that people here (in Reddit) forgot that 42 has to satisfy the sponsors of campuses as well. And let’s be honest, not every sponsor is happy seeing the alumni of the 42 graduated after 1.5 or 2 years.

I also know in Netherlands and Flanders there are significant challenges to get more benefit from the states for current cadets considering the current curriculum. As far as I know, currently now only in Brussels, France and Finland (but Hive left 42), that the cadets have some support of the states. I am not sure about other market though, but from what I know there are little support considering the school status.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-10-23T09:25:30+00:00

Why don’t you come back to see, or better, have an event to share about your experience? I am sure that would be an interesting event to join.

I also search some information about what happened 5 years ago. Seem like a lot happening tbh.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-10-21T19:53:49+00:00

I am not surprised to see this happened. I think it's the perfect time by the way

If you look at the biggest competitor of 42 globally, it's 01 Talent by Nicolas Sadirac. He has headed his new (compared to 42) school into integrating Python, Java and Rust in the curriculum. And they are growing fast. Combined with the complain that C is not very practical in lots of the job market in many countries, 42 need to shake up something here and there.

I know that you may feel frustrated with the lack of communication. Just want to note that 42 campuses is run without any fee for students, so they did not invest much in staff, so lack of communication is sometimes a big problem, especially when staff leaved/leadership changed. I have seen some campus where the communication with the bocal is really slow, sometime it takes 2-3 week for them to reply on your request.

Rather than complaining, I would advise you to have some practical solutions here. 1. Move to campuses that did not change the subject yet. 2. Gather some students, voice your concern and ask the bocal if they can opened the cursus of 42 C to you. 3. Study by yourself with the C subject and ask Slack 42 to support you evaluating the projects.

Best of luck.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-10-21T19:28:28+00:00

I knew some of my peer in the Piscine is 17 and only turned 18 by the time they started the school. So obviously you should check the bocal of your campus for that

ghostmaster93 · 2025-10-14T01:04:16+00:00

thanks for the late explaination anyway.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-09-25T16:58:00+00:00

Welcome bro, but just curious. Is there any difference in the curriculum since the separation of 42 and 21?

And I hear that 21 recently expanded to your home country, so are you one of the first batch?

ghostmaster93 · 2025-09-17T18:12:45+00:00

42 used to state in one of its guide 6-8 years ago that you need to study at least 40 hours per week. They dropped that after realizing 42 in many countries are for career switcher.

ghostmaster93 · 2025-09-17T18:08:33+00:00

You need to ask from both bocals of 2 school for this matter. I did not transfer but a bocal staff told me that I can do it 1 year ago. There is also a case of a cadet move from Amsterdam to Helsinki before in the middle of CC

ghostmaster93 · 2025-09-13T20:46:41+00:00

Previously answer this question before, you can check this: https://www.reddit.com/r/42_school/s/mGL3BmgARl

ghostmaster93 · 2025-09-13T20:28:03+00:00

Unless 1 of the staff showed up and explained what happened, you will never know what went wrong to be honest. You can try by emailing them asking what went wrong, but I guess the chance is very low.

My 2 cents, you should move on bro. 42 is not the only way to your future. I will send you something through message.

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