Never heard of the AOL one, but I always find it funny that some how people think that bootcamps are new.
I would wager that more people learned to code via a bootcampish route (especially between 1995 and 2005) than through CS/SE degrees.
The before the dotCom bubble burst there were advertisements for Java/C++/SAP/ASP/W/E++ programming certificate courses on every website/newspaper.
Then there was a consolidation period with CS degree again becoming some sort of a filter pre-requisite and now where the "demand" at least for cheap(er) labor (and labor with 50-100K+ in student debt can never be cheap) bootcamps are touted as the next best thing again.
The only difference really is back then those certifications could actually easily land you a job because companies would advertise specifically for "XYZ certified programmers".
Now it's LF Full-Stack Engineer 19 years of experience in some framework that is 2 years old and is going to be in perpetual beta until its decline.
Thats not saying that bootcamp graduates won't find a job, they'll just be thrown into the same recruitment hell pool.
I would wager that more people learned to code via a bootcampish route (especially between 1995 and 2005) than through CS/SE degrees.
The before the dotCom bubble burst there were advertisements for Java/C++/SAP/ASP/W/E++ programming certificate courses on every website/newspaper.
Then there was a consolidation period with CS degree again becoming some sort of a filter pre-requisite and now where the "demand" at least for cheap(er) labor (and labor with 50-100K+ in student debt can never be cheap) bootcamps are touted as the next best thing again.
The only difference really is back then those certifications could actually easily land you a job because companies would advertise specifically for "XYZ certified programmers".
Now it's LF Full-Stack Engineer 19 years of experience in some framework that is 2 years old and is going to be in perpetual beta until its decline.
Thats not saying that bootcamp graduates won't find a job, they'll just be thrown into the same recruitment hell pool.