I attended a bootcamp and was fairly unimpressed by the curriculum and general quality of teaching. The absolute biggest advantage of a bootcamp was that it hel

I attended a bootcamp and was fairly unimpressed by the curriculum and general quality of teaching. The absolute biggest advantage of a bootcamp was that it held my feet to the fire. For the most successful students, it was pretty clear that the bootcamp was (pedagogically at least) not responsible for their success, rather mostly providing a space and opportunity to the kind of group work that is difficult to do alone. At the same time, people are very arrogant about their CS degrees. I was very successful as a student in a non-technical field and it's honestly amusing that a student in a giant CS department at a random public university would think that they have a competitive advantage against someone like me in the workplace simply because they have a technical degree. CS majors don't have a monopoly on smarts and 95% of enterprise software development is honestly not rocket science.