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I think it basically comes down to the type of person. Some require essentially supervision to learn. They need someone to tell them what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. These are the people who take advantage of traditional schooling, and sitting in classes.

I think I fall in the other end of the spectrum, where I'm bored in a classroom sitting, and I'd rather people be at home hacking away learning myself. Trial and error experience works far better than someone telling me to do something. My progression basically comes from projects. I work on a side project that develops a few certain skills, then I choose another project I've been interested in, that builds on the previous project, but introduces new topics to learn. So on and so forth.

In my opinion a lot of these bootcamps are just filled with people who thought programming would be a good career change to make more money. I saw this years ago in my freshmen CS classes. Bunch of people who thought they'd just take the classes because that was what making money, or OOOO computers! Inevitably failed out. While those who learn on their own are the ones who are actually interested in programming, and have been doing so way before bootcamps existed.