Learn to Code from Bali

Hello there!

I am currently living in Bali for 2 months, and here goes a crazy idea:

When you want to learn to code for a "career switch", you have mainly two options:

Bootcamps and online courses.

Bootcamps:

• Are quite expensive (at least 7.000usd).
• On top of that, you need to pay your "normal life expenses" (like...accomodation and food).
• They have a unique "path". They treat all the people on each cohort as if they were "equals" (and they are not).
• If, for any reason, your learning pace is slower, you can't catch up. There is one rythm for all. Follow or fall.

Honestly, their approach to educations seems to be based more on trying to "justify how much they charge" than in "how learning actually works".

Online courses:

• Super cheap, but you are on your own.
• You still have to pay for you "life expenses" (so, not so cheap!)
• Probably you find more hard to focus as you are alone
• People: a) do them while working and thus cannot fully commit or b) do them full time, feeling completely lonely and quite "intimidating"

What I am thinking about (and I would really like your feedback):

The UPS would be:

"Live in Bali for 1.500€/month while learning to code at your own path and around like-minded people. Come back to your home with:

• a new job.
• an awesome life experience.
• a network of coder colleagues."

How would we offer that?

We will rent a villa for 20 people on Bali, and organize accomodation and meals so they can keep 100% of their focus on the learning process. The villa will be preapared to optimize the learning process: individual rooms with proper desk, common areas with co-learning spaces and "entertainment" areas to recharge.

We will negotiate with the best online coding school to have a custom online program.
Every body on the villa will be learning at their own path, so you avoid "the pressure" of bootcamps. No "live classes" (that doesn't make sense...it could be recorded and view at your own path!).

No fixed pace. You will learn at your own rythm and you will be around like-minded people. Some of them are ahead of you, some behind. Expontaneous conversations about coding and learning will arise.

We will provide activities for the weekend, so you can socialize and get you bateries recharge.

At the end, you will go through an exam to certify you acquired the knowledge and you are prepared to get into the job market.

We will help you find your new job if that's what you wish.

Basically, we would be offering a "blended learning experience" that takes the best of the both alternatives (bootcamps vs online courses) and makes them affordable (even cheaper than online courses at your own city probably).

I LOVE the concept, and the idea of getting into the education sector really turns me on.

Just wanted to share here to have some feedback / ideas / see if any fellow IH who's considering learning to code would be willing to join.

So...thoughts?

Thanks!