I'm an artist that took a bootcamp 2 years ago, with no previous coding experience or even a bachelor degree. I am mostly a skeptical person, mainly because I watch how much bullshit startups sell all the time.
I took a bootcamp here in Portugal called Academia de Código, which transforms unemployed people from any background or educational level into full stack developers. They teach hardware notions, design patterns, tooling, and computer science history, from Margaret Hamilton or Dennis Ritchie to Aaron Swartz and Richard Stallman. We also get a lot about Unix and networking. The premise is that you get the basics of coding and then you draw your own path. Some colleagues of mine chose COBOL, or went to the car industry. We all got our jobs in a week or two, and we come out in newspapers as "the miracle startup that is beating universities". We get into senior positions way faster than the rest of the people here in Portugal. I myself am impressed from what I achieved. I am given the liberty to decide how new programs will be created.
Bootcamps are worth every penny. They give you the mindset, the culture and the lack of burocracy needed for you to grow at the maximum pace you can. They make you the fun person in a team of developers way to burned out from college or from not being able to deal with upper management. Bootcamps do not also teach you hard skills, but they give you a set of tools to explain to people the implications of coding and engineering in a human and fun way.
Bootcamps are the embodiment of the difference between theory and practice.
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I'm an artist that took a bootcamp 2 years ago, with no previous coding experience or even a bachelor degree. I am mostly a skeptical person, mainly because I watch how much bullshit startups sell all the time.
I took a bootcamp here in Portugal called Academia de Código, which transforms unemployed people from any background or educational level into full stack developers. They teach hardware notions, design patterns, tooling, and computer science history, from Margaret Hamilton or Dennis Ritchie to Aaron Swartz and Richard Stallman. We also get a lot about Unix and networking. The premise is that you get the basics of coding and then you draw your own path. Some colleagues of mine chose COBOL, or went to the car industry. We all got our jobs in a week or two, and we come out in newspapers as "the miracle startup that is beating universities". We get into senior positions way faster than the rest of the people here in Portugal. I myself am impressed from what I achieved. I am given the liberty to decide how new programs will be created.
Bootcamps are worth every penny. They give you the mindset, the culture and the lack of burocracy needed for you to grow at the maximum pace you can. They make you the fun person in a team of developers way to burned out from college or from not being able to deal with upper management. Bootcamps do not also teach you hard skills, but they give you a set of tools to explain to people the implications of coding and engineering in a human and fun way.
Bootcamps are the embodiment of the difference between theory and practice.