| I know some people who went to App Academy and did really well for themselves. My guess is that a bootcamp is the same hours equivalent of a person a bare-basics CS degree without the internships. Here is my reasoning: * 2 years of college is just to finish core curriculum/elective stuff (history, foreign language, writing, philosophy, etc) * 2 years of college is used to finish computer science major * Each year, students study for 40 weeks. So in total he studies for 80 weeks. * Each week, he takes an avg around 3.5 courses a week. * Each course takes him an avg 4 hours a course (remember college kids waste a lot of time...a lot of time). Total= 2 years * 40 weeks/year * 3.5 courses/week *4 hrs/course = 1120 hours Conclusion: If you put in bootcamp hours, which is 80-100 hours a week, it's only 11-14 weeks. That's the avg length of a bootcamp. Bootcamp = college degree in CS (from a mediocre program) minus the core curriculum and minus the 2-3 internships you would do in college. Many people here are saying that bootcamp alums aren't as good as college grads. I don't have enough data, but I would agree with that statement. While bootcamp grads aren't as good as CS grads, I wouldn't say the bootcamp education is worse than a poor/mediocre CS program, because of some unaccounted for variables: 1) Internships are still vitally important! 2-3 internships is basically a full year of programming on a very diverse set of problems! 2) Selection bias: Better programmers tend to start earlier in their career, hence they don't have to go to bootcamps. 3) Confidence issues: It takes years for people to be comfortable with engineering. I would not be surprised if people don't have confidence issues going into interviews + work after a 12 week bootcamp. |