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by VirusNewbie 1565 days ago
I do NOT recommend going to a bootcamp if you have little experience with coding. The bootcamp sweet spot is helping someone who knows how to code to get up to speed with being an entry level professional developer.

Bootcamps are incentivized to send their best candidates out to interview for the best jobs, and if you're trying to learn the very basics of javascript at the same time you're trying to learn the latest framework it is going to be very hard to be at the top of the class.

I recommend doing some self study at home through an online class, then after you feel like you both enjoy programming and have a good handle on the basics, to then try a bootcamp.

1 comments

Do you think I should focus on Python before JS?
JS seems to be a little more common for hiring entry level developers. Doesn't matter that much once you get really good at JS you can easily transition to python and vice versa.