Billionaire open programming schools: school doesn't cost a penny-rich programming-IT information

In France, Xavier Niel (zeweier·nier) the net assets of 10 billion dollars of wealthy sponsors set up a school for the free program called 42. This school does not charge tuition, no teachers, no textbooks or degree, it is the iMac line and high-speed network, students up to learn and help each other to learn programming skills you want.

See the teaching environment, you might suspect that the idea of running wide of the mark, but judging from the student enrolment, 42 are very popular, and that Xavier Niel had planned to invest 100 million dollars in the United States have copied a similar school in Silicon Valley. In May this year of France during the Conference on Science and technology, PingWest was invited to visit the University of the free programming, closer looks at the national education system are not satisfied with France how rich are changing education.

Entrance

In 42 programming School of several created who seems, France of education system has cannot for national conveying enough of programming talent of has, so 42 in recruit students Shi does not fancy he zhiqian do had what, and made had how of results, as long as this people of age in 18 age-30 age Zhijian, can through 42 established of entrance exam, so he on can free in here learning 3-5 years of time. According to the plan, 42 intake of 1000 participants every year .

42 school classroom

To enter programming 42 schools, students on the Internet after a round of primaries, taking into account the more than 70,000 people signed up by 2013, but eventually only 890 people over the network first round, wire heats get under admission requirements, so the competition is very fierce.

Teaching

After entering the school, 42 programming school and no teachers or provide textbooks, students have to find their own learning materials, and try and others work together to solve the problem. It is easy to see its programming education gives students a large enough space, and solution-oriented.

School head Nicolas Sadirac 42 programming: here is not some programming knowledge to engage students in learning by rote teaching methods, because in the fast-moving IT industry you rote thing may have been a failure for two years, so the school would like to provide a teaching environment to learn how to solve the problem.

? 42 schools to two students in discussion

Because you do not need to schedule classes and teachers, so 42 programming operation is very simple-just make sure opened, a variety of electronic equipment in good condition. When we visited found that school staff a total of more than 30 people, divided into education management in IT system management, enrollment management, and part 3, which IT set the largest number of people.

42 programming school open throughout the day in the teaching area, large stocked with hundreds of Apple computers in the classroom, students can go at any time, at any time. In school, you can easily meet several students gather to discuss problems. Legend of students slept in the classroom, when I was at the scene but did not find.

Assessment

Although theoretically 42 programming schools provide students with 3-5 years of study time, but some students were hiring away just in the middle. Nicolas Sadirac, when asked here graduates can find work, whether it would be accepted by enterprises, he said42 programming school is not for graduates ' employment rate as a measure of teaching, school graduates can create more value by value and impact, such as the number of business people, for enterprises, in order to create value, and so on .

In assessing students, 42 more programming school is based on the project quantity, measure students ' level of experience. For these students who are selected from the tens of thousands of people, after they finish some projects, finding a job is not a problem. Some new technology enterprises and even more attention to students ' ability to solve problems, like Xavier Niel his company also employs 3 42 program graduates.

42 patron is more than rich, also known as France jobs

Not every rich man is willing to sponsor projects like 42 programing, has 10 billion net worth of us $ Xavier Niel is the kind of personality, willing to challenge the rule of people, he has even been called France's Steve jobs.

▲Xavier Niel

Xavier Niel is born in France, 19 years old when he created a company that provide pornographic chat service by telephone network and successfully sell it. Subsequently, Xavier Niel became shareholders of the sex shops, in 2004, the billionaire was also on suspicion of pimping and misuse of company assets in custody for a month.

Now Xavier Niel's most familiar identities is actually France Telecom service provider Free founder. He titles a lot, but it looks like he's more about this free program funded school, we used to visit on the day, in the rain of Paris, Xavier Niel is the scene.

Xavier Niel (left) and Nicolas Sadirac (right) introduces visitors to 42

In the field of business, Xavier Niel is one of those people who like challenging industry practices. He created in 1999 when the Free modem is completely free, in 2002 and sold at a low price when broadband services, which not only brings great influence to rival and even fresh industry standards.

How much it cost to do the free school

Billionaire Xavier Niel, the cost of funding the programming school is not as much. In 2011, Xavier Niel cost 12.6 million euros for a school under construction, ten years before the school's operating costs estimated at between 20 million and 50 million euros, so the cost of operating in this school for ten years may be less than 70 million euros. Pays an average of 7 million euros for people like Xavier Niel, of course, is a small figure, he has no plans to make money with this school .

In May this year, Xavier Niel has decided to invest 100 million dollars to Silicon Valley to 42 free programming school, filming a video in this school, like the Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, head of Facebook Messenger of David Marcus in there for its "endorsement". There were so many great recommended, 42 think fire is difficult.

亿万富翁赞助开设编程学校：上学不花一分钱 - 富翁,编程 - IT资讯

在法国，Xavier Niel（泽维尔·尼尔）这位净资产达100亿美元的富豪就赞助设立了一所名为42的免费编程学校。这所学校不收学费，没有老师，没有教材，也不颁发学位，它有的就是成排的iMac和高速网络，学生们要靠自学和互相帮助来学习自己想要的编程技能。

看到这种教学环境，你或许会怀疑这个办学想法靠不靠谱，但从学生的报名人数来看，42很受欢迎，以至于Xavier Niel已经计划投资1亿美元在美国硅谷复制一所同样的学校了。今年5月份的法国科技大会期间，PingWest品玩受邀参观了这所免费编程大学，近距离看了看对本国教育制度不满意的法国富豪是如何改变教育本身的。

入学

在42编程学校的几位创建者看来，法国的教育系统已经无法为本国输送足够的编程人才的了，所以42在招收学生时并不看中他之前做过什么、取得过怎样的成绩，只要这个人的年龄在18岁-30岁之间，能通过42设立的入学考试，那么他就能免费在这里学习3至5年的时间。按照计划，42每年会招收1000名学员。

42学校的教室

要想进入42编程学校，学生首先要在网上经过一轮初选，考虑到2013年时有70000多人报名，最终却只有890人通过网络初赛、线下复赛拿到入学资格，所以竞争还是很激烈的。

教学

进入学校之后，42编程学校并没有老师，也不提供课本，学生们要自己去找学习素材，并尝试和其他人协同解决问题。不难看出，它的编程教育给了学生足够大的空间，并且是以解决问题为导向的。

在42编程学校的校长Nicolas Sadirac看来：这里教学方法并不是要让学生们死记硬背一些编程知识，因为在快速变化的IT行业你死记硬背的东西可能过两年就失效了，所以学校更希望提供一个学习怎样解决问题的教学环境。

▲42学校的两个学生在讨论问题

由于不需要安排课程和老师，所以42编程学校运营起来也很简单——只要保证教学区开放，各种电子设备正常运转即可。我们在参观时发现，学校的工作人员总计有30多人，分为IT系统管理、招生管理和教育管理3个部分，这其中又数IT组的人最多。

在42编程学校全天开放的教学区里，偌大的教室里摆放着上百台苹果电脑，学生可以随时来、随时走。在学校里，你很容易就会遇到几个聚集在一起讨论问题的学生。至于传说中会睡在教室里的学生，我那天在现场时倒是没发现。

评估

虽然理论上42编程学校为学生们提供3- 5年的学习时间，但实际上有些学生刚学一半就被企业招聘走了。当Nicolas Sadirac被问到这里毕业的学生能不能找到工作、是否会被企业接受时，他表示：42编程学校其实并不以毕业生就业率作为教学衡量标准，学校更看重这些毕业生能创造的价值和影响，比如说这些人的创业数量，为企业、为社会创造的价值等等。

在评估学生方面，42编程学校更多的是以项目数量、经验多少来衡量学生水平的。对于这些从几万人中挑选出来的学生来说，他们在做完一定的项目后，找工作往往不是问题。一些新型科技企业甚至更看重这里学生解决问题的能力，像Xavier Niel自己的公司也雇用了3个42编程学校的毕业生。

42的赞助人不止是富豪，还被称为法国的乔布斯

并不是每一个有钱人都愿意赞助像42编程学校这样的项目，有100亿美元净资产的Xavier Niel也是那种个性鲜明、愿意挑战规则的人，他甚至还被称做法国的史蒂夫·乔布斯。

▲Xavier Niel

Xavier Niel出生在法国，19岁时就创建了一家借助电话网络提供色情聊天服务的公司，并且成功将其出售。随后，Xavier Niel又成了性用品商店的股东，在2004年，这位富豪还曾因为涉嫌拉皮条和滥用公司资产被拘留了一个月。

现在的Xavier Niel最让人熟悉的身份其实是法国电信服务商Free的创始人。他身上的头衔很多，但看上去他对自己资助的这所免费编程学校更为关注，在我们过去参观的当天，巴黎在下雨，Xavier Niel还是来到了现场。

Xavier Niel（左）和 Nicolas Sadirac（右）向来访人员介绍42

在商业领域，Xavier Niel属于那种喜欢挑战行业惯例的人。他1999年创建Free时让调制解调器彻底免费，2002年时又以低廉的价格出售宽带服务，这些举动不但给对手带来很大影响，甚至还重新树立了行业标准。

办这所免费学校要花多少钱

对于亿万富豪Xavier Niel来说，资助这所编程学校的花费并不算多。2011年，Xavier Niel花费1260万欧元买了下办学的建筑，前十年学校的运营费用估计在2000万至5000万欧元之间，所以这所学校运营十年的费用可能还不到7000万欧元。平均每年支付700万欧元对于Xavier Niel这样的人来说自然是个小数字，他也没有用这所学校赚钱的打算。

今年5月份，Xavier Niel已经打算投资1亿美元把42免费编程学校开到硅谷去，在这所学校拍摄的一支宣传片里，像Snapchat的CEO Evan Spiegel、Twitter的CEO Jack Dorsey、Facebook Messenger的负责人David Marcus都在里面为它“代言”。有了这么多大佬的推荐，42想不火都难了。