New York Creates Guidelines to Help Coding Schools Go Legit

A sample of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) computer code is displayed on a monitor for a photograph in Tiskilwa, Illinois, U.S., on Wednesday, July 12, 2017. JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format.Photographer: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg
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New York City is trying to bring some legitimacy to coding schools after the industry was shaken by several unexpected closures and students were left jobless and in debt.

On Tuesday, officials unveiled a set of optional guidelines for bootcamps to follow. Three schools agreed to adopt the standards outlined in the report: Fullstack Academy, General Assembly, and the New York Code + Design Academy.