| There are a lot of comments in here saying instructors spoon-feed content. I attended a bootcamp, and maybe other bootcamp grads can back up my claim here but... Instructors don't spoon-feed material. Curriculums are set up to be project or goal-based, kind of like being given specs or requirements in the working world. What instructors do is teach you HOW to effectively learn. They also explain some of the more complicated nuances of a language...spots where a learners mental model typically struggle, that aren't well explained in Stack Overflow or MDN. And that's probably where learning gets expedited. I don't refute self-learning as an effective means of finding an engineering job, but if you're starting with zero programming background, your only feedback loop is the compiler or interpreter giving you a result you didn't expect. Sure, there's definitely some curated content. But it's not the job of an instructor to diffuse every API or system design needed to stand up an app into a students brain. There's a difference between being told what to do, versus being coached how to do something effectively. And I think the two are conflated because of the perception or marketing bootcamps offer. Any other bootcamp grads with the same experience? Or am I alone here? |