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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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Developer Bootcamps - Be a Programmer in Two Months!
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 15 2014, @06:46PM
I have had similar experience. However it was with someone who had a phd in nuclear physics.
The problem I ended up with is I ended up with a competent (not great) programmer. But one who had no idea why things went to crap because she had no grounding in picking good algs up front. Why one solution was better than another. That took 2 more years. I have done this 3-4 times now with different people from different backgrounds.
If they can follow simple instructions and make them they can at least be competent. To be great you need to know why a variable is filled in what did it and why. If you do not do that you end up with tons of 'debug' code everywhere. I usually recommend the book debugging by David J. Agans. It lays out how to find issues and how to learn how to fix them.
These days I do not have much opportunity to do it anymore. I have been relegated to writing loops over and over and people who 'are smarter than me' decide what loops to write. I can usually point at their code and find out why it is wrong. They do not even begin to understand why. As they have no concept of what the hardware/compiler/interpreter is doing to their software.