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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: 2) by clone141166 on Thursday October 16 2014, @12:30AM
There are some of us who took our software engineering education seriously and actually tried to go above and beyond just passing the courses. But you are right, with universities handing out degrees like candy there really needs to be a proper professional accreditation body similar to what most medical disciplines have. And the bar for being accredited as a programmer needs to be set MUCH higher.
With the entire world basically run by computers, it is extremely worrying that there aren't more stringent qualification standards placed on programmers as a profession.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday October 16 2014, @03:32AM
It goes beyond what the universities teach. Companies are willing to hire without regard for education. Furthermore, open source products are ubiquitous and no validation of credentials is required for contributors. While some projects have some minimum standards and are verified, there are others that are put together by hacks. I know of one where the lead (paid) programmer openly criticized the technology chosen for the project, yet had the final say on what was accepted. The result is that there is as much spaghetti code in that project as in any I have seen.
Given that trillions if dollars of wealth is tied up in the world-wide computer networks, the inconsistent standards make the thing something of a house of cards.
Heartbleed was estimated to have cost a half billion dollars ( at 500,000 servers worldwide, that's only $1000 per server to fix - nt an unreasonable estimate). That due to one line of code that was sloppily written and not properly verified.