[rosalinekarr]

I've worked as a teacher/mentor for an online coding bootcamp, and from my experience, the advantage of these kind of programs is moving very, very fast. Self-teaching takes a lot of time because you often have to figure out what to learn about next, and university programs tend to take of lot of time because they expect you to take a broad range of classes (a little assembly, some webdev, a bit of high level math, etc). These bootcamps on the other hand, take you from your first HTML file to fully working Rails/Django/Node apps in about 6 months.

[stale2002]

Well, except the ones that have you working 80 hours a week, instead of 40 hours of week. Those do it in 3 months.