[hough]

I understand that it comes down to my opinion. I'm merely interested in the what professionals think of the school and the quality of the alumni.

I do feel like I am learning something, and I enjoy it. But I have no way of telling if what I'm learning is what I should be learning according to what is needed today and into the future.

Thanks for your help they are good questions I should ask myself.

[brudgers]

Professionals have mixed opinions of alumni. But again those opinions matter at the level of the individual, not in general. While there are companies that tend to hire the graduates of particular bootcamps, my impression is that these are more the exception than the rule and that even that fraction is primarily graduates of in person bootcamps versus online bootcamps.

Realistically, whether or not someone gets hired depends on whether there is a job. If a person lives in a rural setting without many programming jobs, then training is less of an issue than finding somewhere to work. In many places, finding somewhere to work as a programmer is harder than going to school.

So it might be worth trying to find a job as a programmer now, while making your decision. It may turn out that the local job market is for Java programmers rather than web developers and a community college provides more relevant training for the local market.

Going a bit further, if you want to build websites, building a website does not require anyone's permission or any training. It just requires building and probably a lot of struggling. Sometimes, getting training can look easier than that, but programming is usually hard no matter how much a person knows...that's why people pay for it.