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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: 2) by tibman on Tuesday December 23 2014, @02:07AM
I agree with you on most javascript developers. I have worked with some who use alert boxes as their debugging system. There is only one other group of people that fall into the same generalization. PHP developers. There is something about dynamic languages with low barriers to entry that allow people to dabble and give the entire language a bad name. Like you said, the failures are silent. A terrible C++ developer wouldn't even get a functioning build. But some terrible javascript/php will at least attempt to run and output something. The fact that it works at all could be purely chance and the interpreter being very kind.
That being said, i really enjoy writing javascript and php : ) C# and Java is meh. Good luck to all your future defacement efforts! (as long as it isn't SN)
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(Score: 2) by cafebabe on Wednesday December 24 2014, @09:36PM
Interpreted languages have the shortest cycle between code modification and execution. This provides the most opportunity to inadvertently introduce implementation-specific and version-specific dependencies. Unfortunately, the process the minimize such dependencies is batch compilation via punch cards or somesuch inconvenience. Although this workflow causes people to think more carefully about their actions, it is generally less productive.
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