Coding Boot Camps Get the Boot: Why the Industry Is Shutting Down
Why do people think a 12 week course will make a non-technical person ready for a junior developer role?  Most developers I know have years of deep experience with computers before becoming professional programmers. (Things like fixing driver issues, installing linux, patching games etc).<p>I have several friends who went to bootcamps had no deep technical interest beforehand.  They just heard that computer programming was good money, and they enrolled.   To me, the ideal bootcamp student would be the person who dabbles with programming or programming-tangential technologies on the side, but just needs that little extra boost.  That is a very small number of people if experience is any guide.<p>I just don&#x27;t think it&#x27;s reasonable to go from 0 to junior developer in 12 weeks if you don&#x27;t have that technical history.  It&#x27;s why you can&#x27;t become a doctor in 12 weeks, generally.  The four year degree programs force exposure to programming and programming-thinking for 4 dedicated years.  This is enough to close the gap for non-technical people, but 12 weeks is surely not.