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by sAbakumoff 3284 days ago
2017 : codecamps produce an army of amateurs that make interent of shit.
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I've been making websites for over twenty years, and I can assure you that there have always been bad web developers. Some are self-taught and some learned at university. Just as there are good ones who have learned in those ways too. Codecamps are no different - there'll be bad developers and good developers who learned through attending them. There's nothing inherently or automatically worse about codecamp graduates. It's all about the individual.
Ok, I have been working in IT for 15 years and have seen some shit too..and I would never hire a person who attended codecamp, to me it does not seem to be reliable way to grow a developer. It's more like a trick that only takes the money from people who want to live the software developer life in the Bay Area.
Wow that's extremely shortsighted given that there are definitely world class engineers at Google, MS, etc who never had formal training.
definitely? Do you have any solid base behind this claim?