Codesmith marketing campaign: "you’re not late to tech". Unfortunately you likely are, and this kind of thing is tone deaf and misleading. Instead of making changes in their program structure they are marketing a 10 year old program structure as if it still works and please don't fall for it.

People who have done the course have chatted with me about their experience, but I haven't done it myself. I've fairly familiar with the content. But for starters - you work at Microsoft full time and you are doing this as a side gig - which is a conflict of interest because your Microsoft contract probably owns your IP unless you got sign off for it. Second, no offense, but you don't have much industry experience, a couple of contracts here and there and you are solely responsible for the curriculum for this program? My frustration is that Codesmith is full of people with very little experience - even 5 years of experience if nothing if someone is going to portray themselves as a world expert on a topic. The arrogance and attitude and confidend tone I've seen from people with very little experience is a massive disconnect. I applaud and support the effort and I don't think it's intentional - but all the instructors need to know what you don't know. Keep using the energy to improve and make things better but don't **my entire point is that it shouldn't be marketed as like Andrei Karpathy and Andrew Ng teaching you for $4600 for 4 weeks.** If you market it for what it was, I would totally back off.