[duxup]

I did a coding camp as part of a career change and I'm doing well.

Having said that I have a couple issues with the camp I attended and others that follow the same pattern:

1. The camps are poor at identifing good candidates, or just don't. They want to get as many people as possible through the program as that is where the money is.

2. Camps don't filter out existing students who just aren't working out. They call them "boot camps" but generally people don't get booted... even students clearly struggling with the concept of a cli remain in the class and slow things down tremendously... even weeks into the class.

3. I put in a ton of out of the classroom time to be what I thought was an "ok" boot camper. Most poor have very little time as being working poor uses a lot of time and energy.

I think the system maybe can work, but I'm not sure anyone is doing it right.