Please accept my apologies. With the current state of bootcamps in the US, I feel it's a stretch to call them formal education. They are at best short training

Please accept my apologies. With the current state of bootcamps in the US, I feel it's a stretch to call them formal education. They are at best short training programs. There's no accreditation, no accrediting body, and no real quality control beyond the press. That the field has few widely accepted standards does not help matters. Personally, I suspect that the advent of bootcamps in the US is a fad driven by the explosion of the tech sector and the amount of time it takes to train a computer scientist. I suspect that in ten years, they will be much less popular as people who only know Ruby or PHP drop out of the field. It's hard to have a multi-decade long career in computing if you don't actually understand computers.