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Developer Bootcamps - Be a Programmer in Two Months!

posted by LaminatorX on Wednesday October 15 2014, @03:06PM   
from the considered-harmful dept.

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?

• A Word for Sociology (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday October 16 2014, @03:25AM

  by Phoenix666 (552) on Thursday October 16 2014, @03:25AM (#106520) Journal

  I always thought it sad that things like math and physics had to be lumped under the same college as things like sociology.

  That implies the social sciences are not as rigorous as "real" science. They employ the same quantitative tools as the "hard" sciences (at least, they did at my alma mater the University of Chicago), but their task is arguably much harder because your subjects are sentient beings who are always deciding to fuck with your model because that's just what homo sapiens do. So designing experiments that have explanatory and predictive power is incredibly harder than poking frogs in the same place who will always jump because that's what frogs do. That's why Milgram was so famous (the Six Degrees of Separation guy) because he kind of stands alone as a brilliant social scientific experimentalist.

  But there is an attitude among acolytes of the "hard" sciences that their social science peers aren't good at math or are somehow intellectually lesser, and it's not true.

  --
  Washington DC delenda est.

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