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So we're here in 42 US, in Fremont, California.
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42 is a free coding university
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where you don't have any teachers,
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we're open 24/7, 365 days a year.
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It's tuition free and you don't have any teachers.
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You don't any grades from the staff.
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You just get corrected by your peers,
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and you learn from your peers.
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To get into 42 or into a piscine
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you don't need any college education,
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or any high school degrees, or anything.
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I mean, I even failed my high school diploma.
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[laughing]
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You have a couple of steps to get into 42.
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First you have to go online, pass some tests.
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After that you can choose a piscine.
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So it's a full four weeks of immersion.
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Even if you don't know anything about coding
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you're going to have to learn how to code,
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and how to work as a group.
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And once you get through the piscine,
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if you get selected,
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you can stay for as long,
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or as little as you want at 42
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until you reach level 21.
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I was in the U.S. Army serving as a medic.
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My friend basically recommended,
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"Hey, there's a free university, there's free dorms",
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and I was like woah woah woah hold on
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this is just too good to be true
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to be coming out of something right now.
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And I made it past the test,
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I registered for the piscine,
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and that's how I got here.
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Before this I had no programming experience,
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none whatsoever.
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I came to 42 because I was a fire performer.
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I spin poi or hula hoops ignited.
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Really?
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Yes.
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I've traveled a lot and I was ready
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to do something that I felt like
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I could contribute to the world in a positive way
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affecting more people at a time.
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I had considered doing a dev bootcamp,
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but they can be like 13 grand,
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and I found this school for free.
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In day zero zero they provide us a video.
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Like short videos to explain what we're doing
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for the exercises they're going
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to be giving us that day.
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And then, if we're stuck on something,
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we always have our peers to ask.
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Here they basically give you everything you need,
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and they're just like,
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"Alright, watch these videos and try to figure it out."
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Well, we sometimes wander around,
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but not to help people.
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We're not here to help them.
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If you teach someone how to do something
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they're not going to get creative.
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They're just going to repeat something
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that you taught them.
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This is the machines job,
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to do something that you taught them.
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If you teach them how to learn
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then they're going to be able to update themselves,
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and to progress.
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Initially it was really hard
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getting just the basics down.
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So, when you're done doing the days exercises
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you sign up for your defense,
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which is basically defending your own code.
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Whatever you put down, so you're not just cheating
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and dragging and dropping whatever you found in Google.
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It's like check to make sure you understand
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what you're doing, why you're doing it, how you're doing it,
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and what was the reason for using whatever you used.
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You would correct a certain amount of people,
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on those corrections you get a certain amount of points,
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and with those points you use so you can get corrected too.
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We make sure they have enough projects to work on.
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For example during the piscine,
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if they can finish every exercise of every day
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that's not a good thing,
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we'll add some more exercises.
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I would say, in the Army, each day is a different lesson,
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and here each day is also a different lesson.
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Hopefully you pick it up during that day,
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but if you don't you better ask one of your buddies,
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or you probably won't make it.
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I know that there are a lot
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of really successful people who have
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taught themselves programming,
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and this is based on that idea except with community.
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I was completely terrified about
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asking programmer friends of mine
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for help when I was teaching myself at home,
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and now that I'm here I realize that everyone
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has the exact same frame of reference as I do.
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So, even if they've figured it out
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in different way from me, my questions
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they'll always make sense, they're always in context.
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Naturally you're going to have
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your beginner coders like me,
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but there are also pretty experienced people here too.
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It also teaches them how to work
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in a group and as a team,
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where as in traditional universities
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they're just gonna work against each other,
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and when they get into companies it's just the opposite.
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When I don't live up to the expectations of myself
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I can put in more time, but here I cannot.
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The expectations are too high.
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It's supposed to simulate a real life work environment
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where your employer is asking too much of you,
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and you have to learn to be balanced in yourself.
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So when they go for a job interview
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if someone tells them,
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"Okay do you know that technology or this one",
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if they don't they'll just say,
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"Give me 15 days and I'll know it."
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And that's a huge adventure for them
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otherwise after three years when they go out,
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the things they started learning when they got in
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is just going to be obsolete.
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One of the staff members asked me how I was,
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and just talked to me and told me
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just keep working, keep trying,
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because the school is to help you guys,
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it's not meant to break you.
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I think because they have more to lose than in France,
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because in France we have
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free education, free universities.
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Here they don't, so many of our students
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gave up two or three jobs just to do the piscine.
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So they're way more motivate,
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and I think in America they have
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the culture where you have to fight for something.
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I get really excited about using
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the things that I made yesterday.
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I still do have an interest for programming.
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I really like it, it's easy on the body.
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[laughing]
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We're all having fun, everyone here is really
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excited about what they're doing.
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I don't feel like I'm ever trudging through,
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and if I do I just walk away and spin poi.