I don&#x27;t think anyone pretends like you can &quot;learn to code&quot; in 10 weeks any more than I &quot;learned to speak Russian&quot; in my three-month intensive Russian course. Of course I didn&#x27;t speak fluently by the time I left.<p>But I learned enough that when I lived in Ukraine I understood a bit of what people were saying, I could communicate somewhat, and a couple of years later I was reading Tolstoy.<p>People think about bootcamps all wrong. You don&#x27;t leave like &quot;holy shit I&#x27;m a master programmer.&quot; You leave knowing, &quot;OK, it&#x27;ll take a while longer, but I can contribute a bit now, and I&#x27;ll pick up more as I go.&quot;