Coding Bootcamps

[Jason]

Coding bootcamps promise jobs and some camps don't even demand that you pay anything until hired. Well, do you all trust them? Who has tried this stuff or thought about it? If you tried it, feel free to share the experience.

 

[Arantor]

I used to work with a guy who took a bootcamp and ended up teaching the bootcamp before coming to work with me. If his journey is anything to go by, bootcamps teach you some things but very rarely why any of it is so.

You get taught 'when you see this, do this' level behaviours and not 'why you do this when you see this' which makes any further teaching very difficult.

 

[Jason]

I used to work with a guy who took a bootcamp and ended up teaching the bootcamp before coming to work with me. If his journey is anything to go by, bootcamps teach you some things but very rarely why any of it is so.

You get taught 'when you see this, do this' level behaviours and not 'why you do this when you see this' which makes any further teaching very difficult.

That's disturbing. In that case, do you feel these places are a rip-off?

 

[Arantor]

I think it depends what you hope/expect to get out of them. Can you learn to code? Sure. Can you learn to code such that you can jump into an agency job and just be one of the team? Uhhhhh.... results hazy, ask again later.

As a thing you might do to just learn the skills so you can go off and make things on your own time, absolutely. But it's not something you can just do and then immediately turn into a career.

 

[Cory]

I feel there are enough free online resources these days where a coding BootCamp wouldn't be necessary.