u/International-Bed413 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Yeah I think both learning styles are good fits for myself. From what I’ve read about codesmith, graduates with the best experience go hard into an open source project while app Academy has more of a traditional approach of multiple smaller projects, which do you think is more at
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
So I think the actual quality of the work is probably similar. But Codesmith resumes APPEAR much farther along. I've been told 1000 times that Codesmith doesn't tell you to do this, but the vast majority of people I've surveyed (out of 200 graduates) list that open source contribution as "Software Engineer" experience at a real "Company". This gives them a huge leg up with smaller companies that don't check these things well and care more about what you do than what your resume says.
I've audited their flagship projects and almost no one uses them. No one reports bugs. No one reports feature requests. No one outside Codesmith contributes to them. They are group projects that are marketed as big open source tools.
Sorry if this sounds negative, not meant to be. It's a brilliant strategy and it's working to help their alumni get the most out of their experience.