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I went through Fullstack's Flex program last year and it's definitely paid for itself. I tried to teach myself for several years and bounced around from language to language without getting too far. The entire time I never knew even how to really structure an application even though I could write a recursive function and understand it. For example, no online tutorial really goes through the rationale behind your folder structure or how to organize your code when you're a beginner. I kinda got fed up with my progress and decided to make the jump. Also, I saw that Javascript was starting to entangle itself in everything so I figured that if I were to go anywhere, it would be a bootcamp that only taught Javascript. The best thing about it was the incremental progression with explanations behind why certain things worked a certain way (historical and pragmatic). For some reason, I absolutely NEEDED that. I needed to understand why things worked they way they do, and most books and other tutorials just never really bothered explaining things that in depth. Having to create your own jQuery, your own ORM, etc makes you appreciate what those tools really do. The second best thing was the feedback loop. Things that used to take me a week to research then understand now only took 30 minutes. It also helped me narrow my focus and ignore those 'hey you should totally use this framework/language instead' posts that would throw me off track for about a month and make me question whether I was learning the 'right' stuff.