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Comment by misiti3780 | Hacker News Reader

I dont want to sound like a dick - but how many coding schools equates to too many coding schools. I would love to see some stats on how many people are trying to attend these sort of things. At some point, supply is going out strip demand and its not going to be financially viable.

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Coding schools are gaining popularity because there's demand, obviously. Many people see them as a way out of their stagnant earnings and soul-crushingly boring middle-class jobs.

I'm curious how sustainable these schools are in the long term. It seems like there is a limit to how many entry-level devs in a given language and framework you can pump into the local market before it becomes saturated. I suppose you can cycle through technology stacks and hope the market has soaked up enough devs before the next class comes around, but it seems like there is a limit to how big the schools can grow. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out with many of these schools getting pumped full of venture funding.

i think the elephant in the room is that you can't just graduate one of these coding schools and compete with someone who has been coding for X more years than you have.

The expected competition, I believe, is to be competing against BA/BSc Comp Psi grads with 12 weeks of learning.

With that in mind I think they hold up pretty well.

So true. I was particularly humored by Bloc's comparison chart where they failed to compare themselves against other online cram-sites but instead listed full-cost options like GA and University of Phoenix tuition! LOL!

Free/cheap online options often won't take you past basic syntax or building a simple, static web page, while programs likes Bloc have students work on complex web apps under a senior engineer (simulating on the job experience). The outcomes are more comparable to those of on-site bootcamps, as opposed to Udemy, Codecademy, etc.

It's like the housing boom all over again.

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