You don't _need_ a coding bootcamp, but they can be a hell of a way to focus the mind. Yes, you can learn a lot of the coding skills individually, but a bootcam

You don't _need_ a coding bootcamp, but they can be a hell of a way to focus the mind. Yes, you can learn a lot of the coding skills individually, but a bootcamp will instil much of that knowledge in a very concentrated period of time, in a manner that leaves you open to more without becoming dogmatised in a particular way of doing things and - get this - involves doing it with other people. That means you're ready to enter Agile teams if you so wish. Also, absolutely no-one coming out of a bootcamp would say they're ready for a senior or even mid-level developer job. Categorically no-one. I have no idea where the author got that sentiment.