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Coding Bootcamps Presented As "College Alternative"

Posted by samzenpus on from the pop-goes-the-bubble dept.

ErichTheRed writes Perhaps this is the sign that the Web 2.0 bubble is finally at its peak. CNN produced a piece on DevBootcamp, a 19-week intensive coding academy designed to turn out Web developers at a rapid pace. I remember Microsoft and Cisco certification bootcamps from the peak of the last tech bubble, and the flood of under-qualified "IT professionals" they produced. Now that developer bootcamps are in the mainsteam media, can the end of the bubble be far away?

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  1. Re:yaaaaaaay... by houstonbofh · · Score: 4, Funny

    We'll end up with more brainless "web developers" who will be able to copy and paste code snippets in Javascript and Python without having any clue about how anything else actually works.

    Well, that replaces outsourcing. Now what do we do for coders?

  2. Re:Given how most spend their time in college... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't think I could honestly trust in the abilities of any programmer who hasn't had a serious discrete math class, without that being matched by years of actively failing at good design and learning the more fundamental pitfalls and ways around them the hard way.

    Settle down, they're talking about creating "Web Developers" not programmers. :-)

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