u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I would break question apart into part time VS self paced.
I think Codesmith is probably the best part time program. But it's super intense still 3 hours a day + 6 hours saturday for NINE MONTHS STRAIGHT. For example, someone who said they have a job and want to part time but they can't imagine committing to nine months of no Saturdays for their family. So as with Codesmith's general offerings, it's ideal for ambitious single people with a lot of savings. I know some people who did part time even though they didn't have a job, to pace it more.
Now self paced is a whole other bucket. Most self paced programs have very low completion rates and they naturally have less of a community vibe as people start and stop and progress at their own paces. Because they rely more on self-motivation, it's hard to interpret outcomes the same way as a part time fixed program because of a lack of meaningful timeframe to look at. CIRR has a spec for self paced programs that choose arbitrary time frames and it's absolute garbage and clearly they don't know how to deal with this either.
BUT if you are the right fit, you might have an amazing outcome at something like Springboard - it's statistically much much rarer because of all those dropouts.