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Discussion on: 5 Things No One Tells You About Going to a Coding BootCamp

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Anna

Some great points!

I'd add one more to that:

  • The technology you're learning at your bootcamp is probably already outdated

I completed a bootcamp only a year ago, but the way we learned app development was already outdated. I learned to build a monolithic app using containers. My junior dev job is at a fully-serverless startup, where I need to know way more about AWS services than any of the languages I learned.

Even if your bootcamp is super modern and you're learning React, you're probably not learning hooks or anything else that just came out but will be in general use by the time you get a job, because the curriculum hasn't been updated yet.

That's ok, though. As a developer, you never stop learning, and keeping up with the trends is a huge part of that. A bootcamp should give you a good foundation, and everything else you'll learn on the job and on your own, once you actually know what you need to know.