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I don't think you're disagreeing here. Kalium is saying that an apprenticeship model is the wrong way to teach these skills.

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That's exactly where I disagree. In my opinion, the apprenticeship model works quite well in IT.

I guess I'm biased here; I grew up in Switzerland and did an apprenticeship in IT. Also, the company I've been working for the last five years has had apprentices since it's very beginnings and most of the apprentices chose to stay afterwards.

Apprenticeships, as typically proposed in a context such as this one or in bootcamps, don't teach fundamentals and train skills. They skip the former in favor of getting to the latter more quickly. Skip logic and math in favor of React and Bootstrap, that sort of thing.

That is what I am saying is a poor fit. None of the items on this list, last I looked, are four-year apprenticeships that include CS fundamentals.

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