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Discussion on: Do they teach "pointers" in bootcamp? Should they?

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The objective of a bootcamp is to get people quickly proficient in a particular technology. It's not a replacement for a Bachelor's degree.

I would suspect that if you interview to find out if the person understood their BS that you would filter out Bootcamp people. But then why are you even interviewing them?

Bootcamps are a tradeoff. Recursion and pointers are more in-depth.

When I designed a university curriculum I forced everyone to learn recursion and pointers (much to the initial horror of some). But when I designed a Bootcamp curriculum I preferred to teach concurrency, transaction isolation, and multi-threading that I thought was more relevant and urgent to teach in the limited time we had.

We couldn't teach everything. If you want everything you should do a BS not a bootcamp.