So they have a 4-week coding competition, and then at the end, the best students ... get to study programming for 3-5 years? Aren't those the students that don't need to spend 3-5 years studying programming and could just get a job now?
If one believes programming is an "art" then it could make sense to behave like art schools: To get in you need to proof "talent" and only those with most "talent" get in. If one thinks of it as an engineering discipline .. then it makes far less sense. Take your pick.
So I spent 3 years in Epitech, which forked into 42, and the first 4 weeks aren't a competition but more like an onboarding thing. You basically learn C in 4 weeks, with coding tests pretty much every day. It sets the base and it turns out to be a great way to quickly know if you really wanna be a software engineer.
After these 4 weeks, students start working on group projects and regular CS classes (although teachers are senior students).
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