https://tomhickerson.com/en/tags/education/Recent content in education on Tom Hickerson's SiteHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usCopyright 2023-2026Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2017/2017-08-25-as-coding-boot-camps-close-the-field-faces-a-reality-check/Fri, 25 Aug 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2017/2017-08-25-as-coding-boot-camps-close-the-field-faces-a-reality-check/Some more signals that ArsDigita University was ahead of its time. tags: education As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Checkhttps://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2012/2012-05-14-the-coming-meltdown-in-college-education-why-the-economy-wont-get-better-any-time-soon/Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2012/2012-05-14-the-coming-meltdown-in-college-education-why-the-economy-wont-get-better-any-time-soon/“Now when you leave school you move back home. You take public transportation or borrow your parents car. The only thing new you buy is the cheap work outfit you need. Savings ? Forgettaboutit. It’s not happening. Your entire focus is on hitting your monthly nut for school debt , credit card and maybe a car or apartment. The crush of college debt has taken an entire generation of graduates, current and future out of the economy.https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2009/2009-09-16-logans-run-cringely-on-technology/Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2009/2009-09-16-logans-run-cringely-on-technology/What we’re talking about, then, is a possible revolution in workplace training, one where a lifetime of experience would ideally be sucked from the mind of an experienced worker to be injected into a trainee and then the older worker discarded. via cringely.com AI and training is back in vogue at IBM. And they’ve patented every piece of it.https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2009/2009-08-18-letters-from-the-jobless-im-not-exactly-sure-where-i-went-wrong/Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2009/2009-08-18-letters-from-the-jobless-im-not-exactly-sure-where-i-went-wrong/90% of our debt is educational. That really pisses me off; you’re told as a naive 18 year old that college is the only way to guarantee a career. So you do whatever it takes to secure that education, which may mean unwittingly borrowing from less-than-scrupulous lenders, and upon graduation you discover that hey, that degree isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on and you’re going to wind up working in a crappy job outside of your field anyway, and why didn’t anyone tell you that diesel mechanics make three times what you owe the government after just 18 months of training as opposed to four years of classes you’re never going to need, like ‘Comparative Religions’ and ‘Carmen: Novel, Opera, Film’?https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2006/2006-07-03-aduni-five-years-later/Mon, 03 Jul 2006 22:39:09 +0300https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2006/2006-07-03-aduni-five-years-later/UPDATE 2026: I’ve taken this post from the defunct ADUni site (archived here) and included it in my website. Enjoy. Ever been a part of something special? Something unique? Something groundbreaking? I was a part of something like that, when I read the following words off a webpage in spring of 2000: “Our goal is to offer the world’s best computer science education, at an undergraduate level, to people who are currently unable to obtain it.https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2005/2005-12-30-joel-on-education/Fri, 30 Dec 2005 00:00:00 +0000https://tomhickerson.com/en/archives/en/2005/2005-12-30-joel-on-education/Oh Joel, your bust on the perils of Java schools cuts this errant programmer close to the bone. Having taken the Structure and Interpretation course, but then leapfrogging the 'classic' C and C++ education directly into a Java curriculum, I found myself wondering where was I in your article; the 'lazy kid' or the student up late at night, who was struggling with recursion and pointers? I have to admit that, at one time I was both.