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　　Liberal arts deGREes and computer savvy rarely sit comfortably together.

　　文學(xué)學(xué)位和精通計(jì)算機(jī)很難兼得。

　　But computer-programming is increasingly where the jobs are.

　　然而，工作越來(lái)越需要掌握計(jì)算機(jī)編程。

　　This logic guided Adam Enbar and Avi Flombaum in 2012 to found Flatiron, one of many coding boot-camps sprinkled across America.

　　正出于此，亞當(dāng)·恩巴爾和阿維弗朗博于2012年創(chuàng)辦了Flatiron學(xué)校，F(xiàn)latiron只是遍布全美的編程訓(xùn)練營(yíng)之一。

　　The camps offer intensive courses in web development, usually lasting three to six months.

　　該訓(xùn)練營(yíng)開(kāi)設(shè)網(wǎng)站開(kāi)發(fā)強(qiáng)化課程，通常為期3到6個(gè)月，

　　They aim to prepare students for software-engineering jobs, while offering career advice and the chance to network: in short, vocational school for the information age.

　　旨在為那些尋找計(jì)算機(jī)工程崗位的學(xué)生做準(zhǔn)備，給他們進(jìn)行職業(yè)規(guī)劃，并提供接觸計(jì)算機(jī)網(wǎng)絡(luò)系統(tǒng)的機(jī)會(huì)：簡(jiǎn)而言之，編程訓(xùn)練營(yíng)是為信息時(shí)代量身定做的職業(yè)學(xué)校。

　　They have emerged to fill a pressing demand for coders.

　　編程訓(xùn)練營(yíng)的相繼涌出滿足了對(duì)程序員的迫切需求。

　　Software-engineering jobs will grow at a rate of 18.8% by 2024, nearly triple the rate of overall job growth, according to the bureau of Labor Statistics.

　　根據(jù)勞工統(tǒng)計(jì)局的數(shù)據(jù)，軟件工程崗位的增長(zhǎng)率在2024年將達(dá)到18.8%，而這一數(shù)值幾乎是總體崗位增長(zhǎng)率的三倍。

　　So boot-camps are multiplying.

　　這也是此類訓(xùn)練營(yíng)迅猛發(fā)展的主要原因。

　　In 2015 more than 16,000 students graduated from them, a 138% increase from the year before, according to Course Report, an organization that tracks the industry.

　　Course Report是一家追蹤報(bào)道該產(chǎn)業(yè)的組織，其數(shù)據(jù)表明，2015年有超過(guò)16，000名學(xué)生從訓(xùn)練營(yíng)畢業(yè)，比往年增長(zhǎng)了138%。

　　They are also big business: publicly traded for-profit education companies are crowding in.

　　編程訓(xùn)練營(yíng)中也不乏一些大企業(yè)：上市的盈利性教育公司正大量涌入。

　　Most boot-camp students are between 22 and 35 and have a college degree.

　　絕大多數(shù)訓(xùn)練營(yíng)的學(xué)員年齡介于22和35歲之間，并且擁有大學(xué)學(xué)位。

　　Some have developed an interest in programming since graduation, or see it as a route to higher pay.

　　一些人是畢業(yè)后對(duì)編程產(chǎn)生了興趣，而另一些人則視編程為獲取高薪的途徑。

　　Sarah Natow, a Harvard graduate, worked in museum fundraising until, dissatisfied with then on-profit sector, she gave up her job and started a course at General Assembly, a boot-camp in New York.

　　莎拉·諾頓(Sarah Natow)畢業(yè)于哈佛，曾經(jīng)從事博物館籌款工作，然而這一非營(yíng)利性部門未能讓她感到滿足，于是她辭去了工作，開(kāi)始在紐約的培訓(xùn)學(xué)校General Assembly學(xué)習(xí)。

　　She felt she needed "some skill set that would give me an entree into some other area", and General Assembly offered a fairly quick fix:

　　她感到她需要“一整套能夠讓她從事其他領(lǐng)域工作的技能”，而General Assembly為她建議了一個(gè)相當(dāng)便捷的方法：

　　three months for $13,500, as opposed to hundreds of thousands of dollars for a two-year masters programme.

　　參加一個(gè)價(jià)值13500美元為期三個(gè)月的課程，而不是耗費(fèi)幾十萬(wàn)美元進(jìn)行為期兩年的碩士課程學(xué)習(xí)。

　　The first job after a boot-camp may not pay that well, explains Natacha Springer, who worked in biotech for ten years, took time off to bring up children, and then attended Flatiron.

　　從訓(xùn)練營(yíng)結(jié)業(yè)后的第一份工作的工資可能不是那么令人滿意，娜塔莎·施普林格(Natacha Springer)解釋道，娜塔莎(Natacha)曾在生物技術(shù)領(lǐng)域工作了10年，隨后休假帶孩子，之后便加入了Flatiron。

　　But she saw a 40% salary increase when she started her second job, and now works as a software engineer for a salary in six figures.

　　然而當(dāng)她從事第二份工作，她的薪酬漲了40%，而如今，她成為了一名能拿到6位數(shù)工資的軟件工程師。

　　Boot-camps claim that over 95% of graduates find jobs as software engineers; starting salaries, they say, average around $65,000.

　　這些訓(xùn)練營(yíng)聲稱，超過(guò)95%的學(xué)生畢業(yè)后以軟件工程師為職，并且起薪平均都在6萬(wàn)5千美元左右。

　　Such claims are seldom independently verified.

　　然而此類言論很少經(jīng)過(guò)獨(dú)立查證。

　　As the camps proliferate and more second-rate schools enter the market, quality may suffer.

　　訓(xùn)練營(yíng)的激增以及進(jìn)入該市場(chǎng)的二流大學(xué)的增多，教學(xué)質(zhì)量難以保證。

　　Critics also argue that no crash course can compare with a computer-science degree.

　　批評(píng)家們也議論說(shuō)，沒(méi)有速成班可以與一個(gè)計(jì)算機(jī)學(xué)位相提并論。

　　They contend that three months’ study of algorithms and data structures is barely enough to get an entry-level job.

　　他們認(rèn)定，三個(gè)月中學(xué)習(xí)到的算法和數(shù)據(jù)結(jié)構(gòu)連從事入門級(jí)工作都不怎么夠。

　　Until now, worries about quality have mattered only to those who can afford boot-camps or can secure private loans to attend: tuition fees range from $10,000 to $20,000.

　　直到如今，有關(guān)教學(xué)質(zhì)量的擔(dān)憂僅存在于那些付得起訓(xùn)練營(yíng)學(xué)費(fèi)以及能獲得私人貸款的人身上：訓(xùn)練營(yíng)的費(fèi)用從1萬(wàn)美元到2萬(wàn)美元不等。

　　That is about to change.

　　但這種情況即將發(fā)生改變。

　　Last year the Department of Education announced a pilot programme to make federal funds available to boot-camps, which are currently unaccredited and whose students are therefore ineligible for federal aid.

　　去年，教育部公布了一個(gè)試點(diǎn)項(xiàng)目，使得聯(lián)邦基金同樣適用于那些當(dāng)前還未得到認(rèn)可，其學(xué)員也因此沒(méi)有資格獲得聯(lián)邦補(bǔ)助的編程訓(xùn)練營(yíng)。

　　As part of the programme, up to ten accredited colleges will work in partnership with "non-traditional providers", like boot-camps, and the quality of the camps will be assessed by a third party.

　　作為項(xiàng)目的一部分，多達(dá)10所經(jīng)過(guò)認(rèn)可的大學(xué)將與“非傳統(tǒng)教學(xué)機(jī)構(gòu)”(如一些集中營(yíng))進(jìn)行合作辦學(xué)，并且這類訓(xùn)練營(yíng)的教學(xué)質(zhì)量將由第三方評(píng)估。

　　The goal is both to open the boot-camps to students from poorer backgrounds, and to improve oversight of the courses offered.

　　其目的不進(jìn)是使得這類訓(xùn)練營(yíng)面向貧困生，也能更好地監(jiān)管這些市面上的課程。

　　Many who follow the education business worry about federal involvement.

　　許多從事教育事業(yè)的人對(duì)聯(lián)邦政府的參與感到擔(dān)憂。

　　For-profit education companies have a mixed history in America; they have been known to take federal money while overpromising, offering sub-standard instruction and saddling unsuspecting students with debt.

　　盈利性教育公司在美國(guó)有一段錯(cuò)綜復(fù)雜的歷史，這些公司接受聯(lián)邦政府的資助，過(guò)分夸大卻提供不符合標(biāo)準(zhǔn)的教學(xué)，并且將債務(wù)強(qiáng)加給那些沒(méi)有戒心的學(xué)生的劣跡已經(jīng)是眾所周知。

　　So far, says Barmak Nassirian of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, boot-camps have not been proved to do much for low-income students without a college degree.

　　美國(guó)國(guó)家高等院校協(xié)會(huì)的巴馬克·納西里安(Barmak Nassirian)聲稱，至今也沒(méi)有證據(jù)顯示，這些訓(xùn)練營(yíng)為那些未獲得大學(xué)學(xué)位的低收入學(xué)生帶來(lái)了多大的貢獻(xiàn)。

　　Mr. Nassirian is right.

　　納西里安先生沒(méi)說(shuō)錯(cuò)。

　　The vast majority of today's boot-camp students are sophisticated consumers who have gone through college.

　　如今參加訓(xùn)練營(yíng)的學(xué)生大多都是念完大學(xué)的精明消費(fèi)者。

　　They view the courses as an expensive but necessary add-on, and judge their quality by how much private investment they attract.

　　他們認(rèn)為這種課程雖然價(jià)格高昂，卻是不可缺的附加課程，并且他們會(huì)根據(jù)這類課程所吸引的學(xué)生的投資多少來(lái)判別其教學(xué)質(zhì)量。

　　That is how for-profit education companies should work.

　　而這正是盈利性公司贏利的方式。

　　To offer these companies the open spigot of federal funding seems too risky, both for taxpayers and for student borrowers.

　　為這些公司開(kāi)啟聯(lián)邦資助的“水龍頭”，對(duì)于納稅人以及貸款學(xué)生來(lái)說(shuō)，未免顯得過(guò)于冒險(xiǎn)。