theiss 21 years old, french american and taking a chance that a radical new kind of education will make him employable in france's difficult economy. he is already dropped out of one college. >> it's my last chance, a unique opportunity to be in this school. >> for arthur and 900 other, this school really is a last and unique chaps. closer to a -- chance. closer to a hot hour, it's school 42. it demands a lot of its students. in change free tuition and an association with some brilliant french tech minds. no teachers. a reliance on peer to peer learning, students working together to solve problems. >> it's nothing comparable. it's another world, another language. other contents, another way of working. we have to work around problems and constantly find solutions when we face problems and failures. >> students are assigned projects via online video. they are given dooed lines for -- deadline for completion. there's no textbooks or lectures. there's google and the internet. >> this needs to find solutions to the technical problem. we don't just want to teach them computer science, but we