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When people take the 'Shortcut' to Coding courses, how do they reason it? - Seems Pointless To Me

Posted: Sep 15, 2012

I would like to hear from some coding students who took shortcut coding classes about why they chose to do that? It seems purposeless if your goal is to get a job. It also seems entirely worthless if the goal is to become a professonal coder, because they won't be eligible for the credentials test that counts, the CCS. Did I miss something?

I don't know, but I just had a horrible thought! Are they going to take this to Barbados too? - Oh my gosh!

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Remember on her blog when Kathy said she had taken Andrews course and it was very difficult for her? Then she started a course of her own. I almost can't put this in words because it's so awful, but do you think she's going to do the same thing with coding that she did with MT, take it to Barbados or somewhere else overseas? I wouldn't usually think that someone might do that, but then, she did it once. She may plan to do it again.

I would guess that she will if she can - nm

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nm

People who make compromises usually continue making them - So yes she probably will

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My bet is she'll probably go with India this time instead of Barbados, or maybe the Philippines. It's possible she'll go back to Barbados and teach coding there, but there's more of a market for her in India.

If she were embarrassed by the Barbados fiasco, she wouldn't be still talking about it - i vote yes she will

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If you read what she has written, there is nothing there about regretting the Barbados fiasco. In fact, she seems proud of it, talking about it as if it were a good thing. I think that means that she didn't learn anything from it and will probably do it again, with coding this time. She doesn't seem to see anything wrong with what most of us consider some pretty disgraceful behavior.

I think it is already offshore - SM

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If you try to look up her domain name to see where it is regstered, you can't get to it because she hid it through a company that locks up the registration information. Try a WHOIS search and you'll see.

Both of them have offshore contacts, according to their bios and blogs. One said her husband is from Barbados.

If there is no license, that would explain it.

The blog also says she got a "bad grade" on an exam at the end. So bad she almost gave up. Was teaching was the only option? Or the best payback for those who employed her? Or who tried to teach her and had to give that bad grade?

I can't condone her behavior, but maybe she just doesn't know better - This is all just very weird

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She may even mean well but is just misguided. I don't know. I sure can't condone her behavior in the past or in the present.

What about the phone number? Was it foreign or American? - Puzzled

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Has anyone called that number? Is it American or overseas?

It does not matter where they are physically - Just where it is registered

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THEY can be anywhere. What matters is where it is registered.

It looks like there is a foreign connection - sm

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Why would they hide that information? She's apparently proud of her time teaching overseas and doesn't see anything wrong with that. Why would she hide her location or the name of the real owner?

We can assume the worst unless and until they come on here with - explanation or denial

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We know a few things, but it's beginning to smell and there are too many serious questions.

We know that Kathy took MT training overseas, helping to cut out American MTs. There is nothing to deny there because she seems to be proud of it and includes it as part of her bio.

We know Claudia and how she ran AAMT during her many years as Director.

One thing that is especially disturbing is their hiding of the 3rd partner.

Many AAMT members hold these two responsible for things that had enormous effects on our personal income, yet they aren't hiding their identify. Yet the real owner is being hidden from us. How could that person be so bad that they don't want us to know about him or her?

The only way this will be cleared up is if they come on here and answer these questions truthfully, and that isn't going to happen.

If the 2 of them were strangers to us and there were that 3rd mystery person - sm

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I could understand it if the two of them were strangers to us and the web site were held by some mystery person. That's not the case though. Two people have revealed themselves but the third remains a mystery, whether it's a person or company. It makes me very uncomfortable.

I can understand why they might have hidden Kathy or Claudia - At A Loss

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I can understand that they would want to hide Claudia because of her less-than-stellar performance with AAMT. I can also understand wanting to hide the identify of Kathy, because she taught overseas and helped take jobs away from American MTs.

What I can't understand is, what does that third owner have that has to be hidden?

Why doesn't someone who knows them ask them to answer some of these questions? I don't like either one of them for what I consider to be good reason, but I can't imagine how the real owner of the web site is so much worse that it requires being kept hidden from us.

Where is this 3rd person coming from? - ???

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They are not necessarily hiding the owner or a third person. They are likely to be the owners but just do not want you to know where they are registered.

The domain name codingforhcp.com is registered, but it is impossible to know by whom or where it is located. That is because they pay a company to hide that nformation. When you do a WHOIS search, you only get the name of the company.

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