Quincy Larson

A lot of building systems that might run on a satellite. Or might run in a self-driving car. Or some sort of mission-critical code. That's extremely high-performance and that can be very deeply... In C, Quincy?

A lot of building systems that might run on a satellite. Or might run in a self-driving car. Or some sort of mission-critical code. That's extremely high-performance and that can be very deeply... In C, Quincy?

That's how they do it. That's how they do it. They'll build some layers of abstraction on top of it. But if you like go, I mean, yeah, that's hilarious. Yeah. We're going to go like all the way down the stack.

That's how they do it. That's how they do it. They'll build some layers of abstraction on top of it. But if you like go, I mean, yeah, that's hilarious. Yeah. We're going to go like all the way down the stack.

Well, we want people to be able to work with the extensive corpus of legacy code bases out there.

Well, we want people to be able to work with the extensive corpus of legacy code bases out there.

I mean, you're probably... Many of which are decades old, the COBOL systems that are running the unemployment office and stuff like that, right? Right, right. So why not teach it? Why not teach people as much as possible? We can teach everything, right? There's no limit. And if you are willing to invest the time to complete a 3,000-hour curriculum that is

I mean, you're probably... Many of which are decades old, the COBOL systems that are running the unemployment office and stuff like that, right? Right, right. So why not teach it? Why not teach people as much as possible? We can teach everything, right? There's no limit. And if you are willing to invest the time to complete a 3,000-hour curriculum that is

500 plus micro lectures and like a whole bunch of projects and stuff like that. Like, like that is a significant commitment. We think like maybe like one or 2% of people who started are going to actually go all the way to the end. And that's why we're able to like offer like everything for free.

500 plus micro lectures and like a whole bunch of projects and stuff like that. Like, like that is a significant commitment. We think like maybe like one or 2% of people who started are going to actually go all the way to the end. And that's why we're able to like offer like everything for free.

Cause like actually going through and like looking at a capstone project and, and providing the exam and all that stuff, like very few people will make it all the way to the end of it. But that's by design. Cause I think a lot of people will get, it's like an inverted pyramid. A lot of people are going to get a tremendous amount of value before they even

Cause like actually going through and like looking at a capstone project and, and providing the exam and all that stuff, like very few people will make it all the way to the end of it. But that's by design. Cause I think a lot of people will get, it's like an inverted pyramid. A lot of people are going to get a tremendous amount of value before they even

complete it sure and they're going to walk away just having a much better understanding of programming and technology and appreciation for how to build software and and some basic know-how for how to build software but they won't necessarily make it all the way to the end where they're like job ready and and that's one of the things we just need to accept like i have always said anyone who is sufficiently motivated can learn to code that does not mean that everybody's going to be able to go out and work as a software engineer like like you need to really care and you need like i

complete it sure and they're going to walk away just having a much better understanding of programming and technology and appreciation for how to build software and and some basic know-how for how to build software but they won't necessarily make it all the way to the end where they're like job ready and and that's one of the things we just need to accept like i have always said anyone who is sufficiently motivated can learn to code that does not mean that everybody's going to be able to go out and work as a software engineer like like you need to really care and you need like i

i think gone are the days where you could just learn a little bit like like the three-month boot camp type things uh and we've never been about that we've always been about like rigor right a rigor but accessibility those are the two words that permeate all of our discussions as a team as a community about where we should go we want things to be super rigorous you know how we are developing the university degree program which has been in development for a few years we've got a few of the

i think gone are the days where you could just learn a little bit like like the three-month boot camp type things uh and we've never been about that we've always been about like rigor right a rigor but accessibility those are the two words that permeate all of our discussions as a team as a community about where we should go we want things to be super rigorous you know how we are developing the university degree program which has been in development for a few years we've got a few of the

The course is done. We're still figuring out like the accreditation process and everything. It's a 2030s thing, but we are still working on it. And what we did was we looked at the top 20 computer science programs in the United States, you know, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Caltech. We looked, what are they teaching? And then we built like a composite curriculum around what they're teaching.

The course is done. We're still figuring out like the accreditation process and everything. It's a 2030s thing, but we are still working on it. And what we did was we looked at the top 20 computer science programs in the United States, you know, Carnegie Mellon, MIT, Stanford, Caltech. We looked, what are they teaching? And then we built like a composite curriculum around what they're teaching.

And we made sure that we're teaching all the engineering, math,

And we made sure that we're teaching all the engineering, math,