[tbirrell]

I don't know if this is something you want to do, but I have a full time development job with no more education than High School and attending one of those Bootcamps. So technically you don't need any degree at all to break into this field. That said, it is much harder to get into larger companies (FB, Google, etc) without a degree. As well as certain subsets of the industry (I won't be able to get into some jobs that needs fluency in algorithms or low level languages). So it's a trade off. But if you really really want to, you can get in on the merit of knowing what you are doing, work a couple of years, and be right up there with the rest of them.

[jimmierock]

I see alot of mixed news about bootcamps. How did you make the decision to attend one, and how did you know which one to attend?

[tbirrell]

Yeah, they are saturating the market these days.

I decided to go for it because I was unsatisfied with my degree path (I was in business), and a scholarship more or less fell into my lap.

I filtered the bootcamps based off the curriculum they offered, which I decided my prefrence based on what tech was hot, both in the industry and in my region of the world (South Central US). I then filtered by reviews and success/employment rate. Finally I scheduled an interview with all the remaining options and talked with them to to get as much of an idea as I could on what kind of place they were. I finally applied to one, and thankfully was accepted.

[jimmierock]

Awesome, thanks. If you could attend a top university at the same price as a bootcamp would you have done it?