Springboard licensed its curriculum from Rithm and Colt Steele so while it doesn’t get constant updates like at Rithm the raw curriculum is decent. You learn a little more at your own pace and watch videos rather than attend lectures and work with others. Review is done by industry mentors who are paid to help, which has its pros and cons. Codesmith for example has the senior students mentor the junior students, and the Fellows mentor and teach, and then hires back former students as instructors. Springboard has mentors that work in the industry. Industry mentors have more insight into what is important on the job, but current and former students might be better at actually teaching. Rithm is in the middle, small classes, experienced and good instructors, solid curriculum. I would say Springboard is more akin to Launch School than the other two options.
u/DopamineFiend_ wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Speaking of Launch School Michael, have you spoken to any former students regarding the program? It seems incredibly rigorous. The combination of months if not a year of prep work or “core” as they call it followed by an advanced version of common bootcamps. I’m curious to find s
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I know one person who did the non-capstone and no one who did the capstone. I don't know how rigorous the content is but I 100% agree that mastery-based learning without a fixed timeframe is very effective for getting the most people possible to learn the materials. "The devil's in the details" and I have not evaluated those details, but conceptually I think it's a good idea.
I would consider it as an alternative to NuCamp, and Udacity. I'm not sure if you can do the capstone without doing core first either.