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Coding Bootcamps Presented As "College Alternative"
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?
Since when do you need Microsoft Visual Studio to write or teach C and C++ programming?
I've been writing C for years and I have never actually seen Microsoft Visual Studio anywhere in the wild. (I take the maid's approach to computers: I don't do Windows.)
If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!
Odd. During my university years, Modula2 was the language for our coding introduction course, C was used in system programming, Pascal/Delphi was it for Software Engineering classes...
In other words: The right tool for the right objective. Language does not matter. There's exactly two kinds of languages: Imperative and declarative. The rest is mostly dialect. Whether you write your code in Java or C++, in Python or Perl, from a purely educational point of view it doesn't really matter.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Code Monkey == Wrench Monkey.
Which is what the US sorely needs. We stopped telling people to go into trades because EVERYONE HAS TO GO TO COLLEGE. I was told in high school I couldn't take welding because I was "going to college." Guess what jobs are in short supply these days? Welding, plumbing, etc.
Sometimes you just need a trade to do a job. Do I need someone that understands coupled classes or a hashtable to build me a website or implement an idea in C? No. If you put 5-10 good coders under a good software engineer I'd trust the output more than trying to hire 3-4 software engineers.
Companies don't hire all engineers, they hire techs as well. We don't need to hire all CS or SE majors but there is a place for them just like there is a place for someone that took a 19-week course on programming.