Local college wasn't, for me, a good place to learn hacking (They taught C++, and at the fourth week we were still on 'Hello World'. I was asleep at that point :) ) This would be an accelerated course. Instead of teaching C, Hacker School could teach a higher level language like Lisp or Ruby/Python.
Would it work if the focus was actually founding startups, though? Four years of intensive programming training followed by the chance to found a startup (or co-found one) when you've graduated. Class projects could even be to actually launch startups, as a class.
We can do better.. We can at least try to do better than what's offered out there. I didn't have a place to be creative in high school. That happened after school, during the night. I know thousands of other kids are in the exact same place as I was.. Could we somehow give them a little hope?
Have you heard of the IMACS program (http://www.imacs.org/)? I never attended it myself, but I have a hacker friend who used be an instructor there and really enjoyed his work.
Would it work if the focus was actually founding startups, though? Four years of intensive programming training followed by the chance to found a startup (or co-found one) when you've graduated. Class projects could even be to actually launch startups, as a class.
We can do better.. We can at least try to do better than what's offered out there. I didn't have a place to be creative in high school. That happened after school, during the night. I know thousands of other kids are in the exact same place as I was.. Could we somehow give them a little hope?