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from the ♫♩♫♩♩♬-in-the-first-week-of-boot-camp-my-true-love-gave-to-me... dept.
According to NPR, Coder Boot Camp "...arose as an elegant solution to a problem of supply and demand."
The author of the article, Anya Kamenetz, states:
This is one of the fastest-growing areas of the job market, and average salaries are high: from $62,500 for a web developer to $93,350 for a software developer. ... At the same time, in just the past five years, the nature of coding itself has changed. Programming languages like JavaScript and Ruby, essential for websites and web browser-based applications, are evolving to be increasingly powerful, even for novices.
She goes on to explain:
The application process for Dev Bootcamp is similar to a job application, and people complete a 9-week, part-time introduction online before they come to campus. And, Dev Bootcamp says, about 95 percent complete the program — that includes those who repeat the first six weeks, which you can do for free.
And she concludes:
All this helps explain their stellar reported job-placement rates.
No job-placement numbers were given in the article, other than stating that "the top programs say they are placing the vast majority of their graduates into jobs earning just under six figures in a rapidly expanding field."
So, 12 weeks to become a web developer, with coding thrown in to "boot"?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 22 2014, @09:33PM
Industry employers want cheap labor. Zero experience boot camp devs are not pulling in six figures. More like 12,000 or less on a part-time basis. After all, H1-Bs can come in at that rate, or less if you outsource to India or China.
The programming labor market is bifurcated. A few superstars on mission-critical, revenue center apps will earn six figures or higher. Core iOS, Android, Redhat developers plus likely a few superstars at Microsoft and Oracle earn that. Everyone else is competing with H1-B and outsourced Indian/Chinese programmers for what amounts to $12 an hour or less.
The whole thing is PC platitude cover "teaching" non-Asian Minorities and women to code (which takes by the way years to learn to do so properly) for increased H1-B limits and hires. Purging older, Whiter, male workforces that cost more in favor of people who are essentially helot labor, sort of serfs, with the cover of PC "Diversity" humbug.
Rule of thumb -- anyone talking about diversity is a scam artist looking to lower labor costs by eliminating the White Male workforce in favor of H1-Bs.
As a side note, this is why software today is worse than yesterday's. Most of the code is written by poorly trained, poorly paid, poorly motivated Indian guys with no long term investment in the code. A cheap labor force produces cheap code quality. You could probably argue that the code quality if not the user interface is HIGHER in Open Source vs. Commercial software as Open Source at least is produced by much higher quality coders who have their reputations built on it. Lennart Poettering being the exception of course.