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with Information on careersFREE Computer programming school: a San Francisco school called APP ACADEMY doesn't charge tuition. Instead, it asks for 15% cut of the student's first-year-salary. Graduates who don't find a job don't have to pay. The first class graduated September 2012. 93% of the graduates have offers or are working in tech jobs now at an average salary of $83,000 per year. http://www.appacademy.io/#p-home DevBoot: Learn to write software in 9 weeks. Dev Bootcamp is not a typical classroom. Think of it more as apprenticeship or a workshop intensive. You will be learning by doing and building, not just by sitting back and listening. We set up bootcamp to closely resemble a real work environment. Tuition $10,000-$15,000 for 9-12 weeks http://devbootcamp.com/ Hack Reactors: Web application development is in the midst of a revolution, and the curriculum is based on the new status quo for web apps: rich, interactive, and built in Javascript. 9am to 8pm, six days a week http://hackreactor.com/
Career Technical Education Community Collaborative (comprised of Cabrillo College, the county Regional Occupational Program, schools and local businesses) includes courses, career guidance via counselors, work-based learning, internships, and apprenticeships. Includes rigorous academics with hands-on, experimental classes General Education Development (GED) Information is available at Santa Cruz Adult School or Aptos/Watsonville Adult School. Call 427-4830 or go to www.gedtest.org Watsonville/Aptos Adult School is offering classes at the new downtown center at 280 Main Street in Watsonville. Classes are also offered at the Green Valley Center, 294 Green Valley Road in Watsonville and other locations throughout the communtiy. Call 831-786-2100 The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union, Local 234, trains apprentices in a paid 5-years on-the-job training program. They also give college credit for classes taken at night. Applications are accepted continuously. Call 633-2311 Regional Occupational Program, vocational job training for students 16 and older, 809-H Bay Avenue, Capitola, CA 95010, 479-5333 Cabrillo College is a Community College located at 6500 Soquel Drive in Aptos. 831-479-6100 www.cabrillo.edu Cabrillo has general education classes, online classes, adult education and a summer academy for students grades 6 through grade 12 Monterey Peninsula College is another California Community College, http://www.mpc.edu/Pages/default.aspx Hartnell College is another California Community College, located in Salinas, http://www.hartnell.edu/ California State University at Monterey Bay is part of the State University system. It is located at 100 Campus Center, Seaside, CA 93955-8001. 831-582-3330. www.csumb.edu University of California at Santa Cruz is located in Santa Cruz at 1156 High Street. 831-459-0111. www.ucsc.edu/public/Default.asp The University has many extension programs at other locations.
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