Full disclosure: I&#x27;m a recent graduate of Fullstack Academy, the organization that is overseeing Grace Hopper Academy. Grace Hopper is going to use the same curriculum that Fullstack uses.<p>&quot;You make sure they are highly motivated by making them take the first part of the course online... The cost to run the online course is very cheap, and now you are guaranteed to have easy students only.&quot;<p>While it&#x27;s cheaper to run an online course than an in-person one, it&#x27;s by no means cheap. The point of the first third of the course is to bring everyone up to speed and make sure everyone is competent in basic HTML&#x2F;CSS&#x2F;JavaScript. Considering the highly motivated students taking the course, there&#x27;s no advantage to learning the very basics in person. I&#x27;m talking about getting comfortable with basic design patterns, JS prototypes, using higher-order functions. Callbacks and promises were only taught in the next part of the course, to give you an idea.<p>&quot;They will have a nice job because they are very smart and motivated.&quot; No, they will get nice jobs because they&#x27;re smart and motivated AND now know how to code, know how to work as part of a software team, know how to use coding best practices, and most importantly know how to learn new technical concepts and languages.<p>&quot;That&#x27;s $15,750 a pop.&quot; That&#x27;s only slightly more than what Fullstack currently charges.<p>&quot;A state university education in Ohio is $12,000 for 15 weeks by the way.&quot; Yes, things cost more in NYC. And Fullstack grads are WAY more competent than someone who&#x27;s taken one semester of college CS courses. For four months I lived and breathed Javascript. Bootcamps focus on producing programmers who are ready to work in a production environment, something you absolutely cannot say for college grads.<p>&quot;The Dean of Grace Hopper Academy has no academic credentials listed whatsoever...&quot; For the last time, comparisons to academic college programs make no sense. The curriculum is already proven to produce good coders, and the staff constantly iterates to see how they can improve the program and the student experience.<p>&quot;Do the [instructors] have industry experience and teaching experience?&quot; Absolutely, every single one of them. They&#x27;re likely not listed because it hasn&#x27;t been decided which of the Fullstack instructors will transfer. From what I hear, it&#x27;ll be a rotation, so you can look at fullstackacademy.com to see who&#x27;ll be teaching there.<p>&quot;Are any of them female?&quot; WTF, the entire program is in place to ensure that more women will become coders because there currently aren&#x27;t enough!