How to Choose the Right Coding Bootcamp
I really hate to see promotion of bootcamps on HN. I see them as the scourge of the tech industry. Telling people that a 6 week bootcamp is the same as a 4 year CS degree is absurd and offensive.<p>Throughout the first dot com boom, we struggled against perceptions that software development was something trivial done by teenagers in their spare time. This perception was highly dangerous, not only in terms of professional respect, salaries, and promotion opportunities, but even to businesses themselves and the law, as companies were forced to try to explain in court that achievements such as the Google search algorithm were on par with a major pharmaceutical project not a lemonaid stand.<p>Imagine a bootcamp for medicine - in 6 weeks they learn the most common procedures: how to prescribe antibiotics, how to remove an appendix, and how to set a broken arm. They&#x27;re told they can learn the rest as they go, and to go start calling themselves doctors.<p>I wouldn&#x27;t want that medical bootcamp &#x27;doctor&#x27; to treat me, and I don&#x27;t want a coding bootcamp &#x27;developer&#x27; to be responsible for handling my medical data.