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Would love to hear thoughts regarding the boot camp vs. higher ed question. In many cases it's not one or the other, but I'm curious where people think educatio
by tgoldenberg 10y ago
Would love to hear thoughts regarding the boot camp vs. higher ed question. In many cases it's not one or the other, but I'm curious where people think education is headed.
- mathattack 10y agoSo far I haven't been impressed with Boot Camp graduates, but people said the same thing about early mobile phones, GUIs and other technologies.
- chessmaster1998 10y agoPeople say that boot camp graduates are not impressive, but you could say the same thing about new college grads, as well, IMHO. Many of them have little / no real experience, except for a few unambitious projects. This is not the case at all schools, but I've definitely seen some expensive CS programs like this.
- mathattack 10y agoThis is my subjective opinion... Generally you can trust decent grades in a CS program no matter what the reputation of the school is. If someone can write a compiler, or operating system, or whatever else they specialize in, they can be free-standing with their learning. I haven't found this to be the case with "Non-technical degree plus bootcamp." Maybe the hit rate for boot camp grads is 1/3 that of CS? Perhaps it's not a fair comparison, but it's been my experience.