[austenallred]

I don't think anyone pretends like you can "learn to code" in 10 weeks any more than I "learned to speak Russian" in my three-month intensive Russian course. Of course I didn't speak fluently by the time I left.

But I learned enough that when I lived in Ukraine I understood a bit of what people were saying, I could communicate somewhat, and a couple of years later I was reading Tolstoy.

People think about bootcamps all wrong. You don't leave like "holy shit I'm a master programmer." You leave knowing, "OK, it'll take a while longer, but I can contribute a bit now, and I'll pick up more as I go."