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Codesmith is Transitioning to Fully Remote

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u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I made a whole post to summarize my comments, they couldn't fit in a normal comment: [https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/1b2q8ck/codesmith\_due\_to\_declining\_enrollment\_shutting/](https://www.reddit.com/r/codingbootcamp/comments/1b2q8ck/codesmith_due_to_declining_enrollment_shutting/)

u/LongjumpingFan9447 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

I graduated the bootcamp just before the holidays. I have been taking some time for myself for family stuff but gonna start search now so any alumni classes are good especially on typescript. Agreed with u/michaelnovati that it does not seem to be very 'frontier' but love me some

u/michaelnovati replied ·
Yeah I mean I didn't learn Typescript until fairly recently! If they charge for follow up courses let me know, I was assuming these would be free, but someone messaged me and said they thought these would be paid "minors" to add on, so maybe I should edit that.

u/no_1_knows_ur_a_dog wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

> why wasn't Typescript included in my curriculum years ago? I'm not a bootcamp grad but I've had several friends do bootcamps over the years. My counter-question is, when would they teach it to you? The bootcamp I saw secondhand did HTML/CSS in one day, JavaScript in one day, a

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
This is my concern too, they don't really have time, without adding these on as add on modules. If they charge for them they are breaking the promise of lifetime support to me, but I could be misunderstanding what that means. But yeah, the people I talk to believe the future tech are things explicitly asked for by grads that they never launched or focused on that they threw in there to appease them, but that don't have concrete plans on how to implement them yet.