{"id":8262,"date":"2013-03-17T09:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T13:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8262"},"modified":"2013-03-17T05:33:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T09:33:00","slug":"a-school-that-doesnt-charge-until-you-get-paid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/a-school-that-doesnt-charge-until-you-get-paid\/","title":{"rendered":"A School That Doesn\u2019t Charge Until You Get Paid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031713_0914_ASchoolThat1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Marcus Wohlsen writes about a school that doesn&#8217;t charge you\u2026until you get paid. Highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/03\/free-learn-to-code-boot-camp\/\">App Academy<\/a> offers a 9 week 810 hour course that teaches students how to become expert programmers.<\/li>\n<li>The classes are free. If graduates of the course get employed then they pay 15% of what they earn in the first year of their job.<\/li>\n<li>This puts the onus on the instructors to give a high quality learning experience \u2013 since they won&#8217;t get paid if the students don&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<li>The biggest risk to App Academy is students who join without any real intention of finding a job. To prevent this App Academy requires students to sign a good-faith agreement and pay a $3,000 refundable deposit.<\/li>\n<li>Admission is competitive. Less than 10% of applicants are accepted.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read how much money graduates can expect to make, why this is fairly lucrative for the academy, and the types of people who have signed up click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/03\/free-learn-to-code-boot-camp\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/business\/2013\/03\/free-learn-to-code-boot-camp\/\">Wired<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2013\/03\/assorted-links-733.html\">Marginal Revolution<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Wohlsen writes about a school that doesn&#8217;t charge you\u2026until you get paid. Highlights include: App Academy offers a 9 week 810 hour course that teaches students how to become expert programmers. The classes are free. If graduates of the course get employed then they pay 15% of what they earn in the first year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/031713_0914_ASchoolThat1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8262"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8266,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8262\/revisions\/8266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}