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Looking for a coding course with good mentor/TA support

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u/michaelnovati replied · · edited ★ FEATURED
Not all mentors are created equal. I strongly believe in the idea that people don't need a single dedicated mentor, but rather need the right mentor at the right time for the right reason. If you can get this just right yourself while doing a Udacity course, you are essentially outsmarting these expensive programs that you are paying 15K to do this. Now the reason it's hard to navigate because some programs charge 15K to be almost entirely taught by alumni of the program. Alumni can actually be better a teaching some topics! But there are also very rare times you need a $500 an hour mentor as well.... and most things fall somewhere on between. When you are starting out, you don't know what you don't know and you just have to trust a program to make good use of your $15K. At Formation, we actually think about our fees as a fee that you could easily pay to mentors directly on your own, and you are relying on us to use our extensive expertise and our pattern matching to most efficiently spend your money on the mentors your need at the right time for the right reason. It's crazy hard even for us, and that's why so many different programs of different sizes, shapes, and costs exist.