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The New York Times has coverage on the phenomenon of Developer Bootcamps, that claim to do in a matter of a couple of months what used to take at least a couple of years for an associate's degree. These cram courses are apparently getting about a 75% job placement rate.
Have any Soylentils either gone through these programs, or worked with others who have? If so, what are your experiences?
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(Score: 2) by TrumpetPower! on Wednesday October 15 2014, @04:17PM
Just to pick your example of psychology and my example of payroll systems...how do you expect to understand the purpose of the various validation / audit reports unless you've got some sort of understanding of the ways that things go worng, intentionally or otherwise?
That certainly doesn't require a degree in psychology, and it might not even necessarily require an introductory course on the subject...but somebody who has a firm grasp of cognitive dissonance theory, even if more informally and intuitively than academically, is going to do a much better job creating that type of system than some code monkey who mindlessly and slavishly transforms poorly-written specifications into code.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday October 15 2014, @08:39PM
how do you expect to understand the purpose of the various validation / audit reports unless you've got some sort of understanding of the ways that things go worng, intentionally or otherwise?
You'll still need some experience with the phenomena, say three months of accounting/auditing or the like. And given the observable, rather high cognitive dissonance of a lot of new college graduates, having a college education, even a liberal arts one, may make the problem somewhat worse not better - at least till they get some real world experience.