. >> jan eisenberg is a software engineer at an online stationery stop. she helps write the instructions or the code that make it function. a computer science major? not jen. that lasts one semester. >> i couldn't build anything tangible. it starts with theory and algorithm. she paged in linguistics. but spent the summer learning the basics of coding at the new york city flat iron school. >> graduating fewer compute you are science major than 20 years ago. that is crazy. the internet happened. >> adamen bar started th flat school and he didn't study computer science either. after college he wondered if his education was worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars he and his family spent. >> i didn't feel like i had any real skills. the college degree used to be the best investment somebody could make and that is not ren worked at venture capitial looking in ways to fix higher education and he didn't hear much until he heard of a college dropout who was teaching people code and helping them get jobs. >> code is just giving instruction. computers are stupid.