Lambda School

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Lambda School is a recurring organization in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between March 03, 2021 and September 12, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “Austin Allred of Lambda School discusses how part of what a coding bootcamp needs to do is teach class signaling”; “Lambda School (now BloomTech), a programming boot camp”. It most often appears alongside FDA, 9-11, @halomancer1.

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  • Category: Organizations
  • Mention count: 2
  • Issue count: 2
  • First seen: March 03, 2021
  • Last seen: September 12, 2024

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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.

March 03, 2021 · Original source
29: Austin Allred of Lambda School discusses how part of what a coding bootcamp needs to do is teach class signaling (see eg his description of how he almost failed to respond to someone because he didn’t know what “ping me” meant). I’m linking this for the insights on class, but it also includes lots of praise for Lambda School; as a counterbalance, consider reading some recent criticism.
September 12, 2024 · Original source
46: An unsympathetic portrayal of what went wrong with Lambda School (now BloomTech), a programming boot camp which deferred tuition until after you got a programming job and could easily pay them back. It got started right when a bumper crop of programming bootcamps created a glut of entry-level programmers - but more than that, the school leadership responded poorly, inflating their placement statistics and going after former students in borderline predatory ways.