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Developer Bootcamps - Be a Programmer in Two Months!

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday October 15 2014, @03:06PM   Printer-friendly
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Thexalon writes:

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 Fnord666 on Wednesday October 15 2014, @10:12PM

    by Fnord666 (652) on Wednesday October 15 2014, @10:12PM (#106438) Homepage

    But seriously, I am not sure that is necessarily true. English is a kludge. It has so many exceptions that making rules is useless (i before e for example). Not to mention doing well in English means using and/or identifying personification, foreshadowing, and those type of things. I apparently suck at story telling, so I wasn't the best in English classes.

    So you're saying that people who understand English well should also be well suited to picking up Perl?

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  • (Score: 2) by velex on Thursday October 16 2014, @12:24AM

    by velex (2068) on Thursday October 16 2014, @12:24AM (#106472) Journal

    Haha, who knows?

    I used a subset of Ruby to teach primary concepts (we did not get into the lambda-specific kind of iteration in Ruby and instead used very non-Ruby-ish iteration by incrementation) and warned her that should she have a problem and decide a regular expression would be the solution, then she'd have two problems!

    But then my own documentation is filled with regular expressions to input to Vim to massage data files… lol