42

Very good programming school allowing you to become a top 1% engineer and land a high paying job in very good companies. 

Also teach you incredible useful top skills that you won't learn anywhere else as the school system and curriculum is very unique

You will need to be able to work 60+ hours a week and connect with your fellow student if you want to succeed here.

The school lacks a bit of framing, you can rely only on your work ethic and the black hole pressure (ejection system for the student that can't keep up with the pace)

So I attended 42 for 5 months before getting kicked out for posting an article on the slack from the drudge report that I thought why not since most things posted on the slack at 42 was non sense anyways and no one really relied on the slack channel for anything besides memes and what was on the menu for the cafeteria food that day (WHICH IS ALWAYS BAD.. some times you get spam in the freaking rice when they say its turkey, and then they lather it up with sweet goo from the gummy bear factory that looks awful...) and I was bombarded by hateful comments about how I was a dumbass and all this non sense that I know I shouldn't have started by posting any article from the drudge report in a leftist society but omg this place was ready to pounce on me, expelling me for "hateful and provoking comments" when I was just holding a convo on slack with no cuss words or any R-rated stuff ( don't live in California for 5 months if not prepared to live with homeless/ trans/ intolerant people).. Now about the curriculum, its awful, just plain awful, they teach you to heavily depend on your neighbor for answers and most of these neighbors have their own project and/or coding language they specialize in at a given time, based on certain projects requiring in-depth knowledge on the subject (A.I. to app development to blockchain etc) and their supposed to know exactly what your talking about and vice-versa, now I think an experienced person would fly through old projects, but what would that teach the new guy? and then they think about that and say "go figure it out" then your like ok I get I'm supposed to learn this on my own but holy fudge I just spent a month straight working my ass off to graduate the "piscine",, can you give me a little bit of an easier time learning this? the answer at 42 is nope, learn it on your own, and while your at it stay on the lab computer for 38 hours and do 2 exams a month or you can find a new 12x12 box to live in for a while. It's great for the first month but after that, if your not into living in California paying 1200$ a month for a studio and 500$ ticket for red light violations then, by all means, go for it... If you care about the world around you and your money, stay at home, get a fun job, learn it on your own (through college, local community, friends etc), take your passion to a workplace that needs a developer and love your family because that's all you have in the end. 42 is not the answer.

Hi there, I can only comment on the "Piscine" intensive basic training program. It is indeed very intensive. It is also very social. I spent about 100 hrs a week in the lab and lived on campus (almost necessary to pass... don't go if you can't get into the dorms, even if you live in the area.)

The program is entirely self- and peer-taught. You are given assignments 7 days a week and expected to complete them using online resources and the people in the room.

I took to the experience really well, but I'd already had a solid foundation in programming Python. People without any programming experience might be overwhelmed. Overall, the most intense and rewarding programming experience I've ever had.

Ladies be warned. Loads of lascivious men who would gate crash my evaluations and get close to me on the pretext of helping me with coding. A few would sit uncomfortably close. Or relentlessly challenge ladies to pool and then looked at where they ought not look at.

Learn useless knowledge and skills here. There are way better schools elsewhere.

 42 Singapore is for those who cannot get into or cannot survive NUS, NTU and SMU. In 42 Singapore, you just have to use the paid version of ChatGpt, memorise the answers for exams and be pals with the young dude in charge of the students. Students who drink beer with him can flout rules, write the rules and use vulgarities on other students and he would let it be. The young dude did so many questionable things but no one above him cares. He completed 21 levels of the 42's course but is staying with 42 because he cannot find a better job. When he failed to meet expectations, he rebutted that it's a free school. But students are paying with their time by teaching and evaluating other students, something which would otherwise require paying professors and lecturers to do. Moreover, I doubt the young dude is doing it for free. When a student could not pass an exam, the young dude said that even a monkey could pass that exam.