bleupi | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you believe in a coding school without teachers?
I'm a 42 Paris student. Before I did a master degree in a classic french university. It's really different. After 5 years at uni I still needed to learn a job and was not valuable on the work market. After 2 years in 42, I know that I'm valuable on the work market because where I worked as an intern they wanted to hire me. A lot of students quit 42 before the end of their study because they found an interesting job or build their own business.
Because I learn a lot by myself, I'm not scare to learn different programming languages. And I enjoy a lot to have the time to dig into some aspect of a concept when I went to, instead of rushing it because a teacher has still a lot to make me write down.
If you have motivation, schools without teacher are a good way to learn software engineering.