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There's a huge gap, though, between the boot camp methodology of essentially "here's a visual design or a set of fields, I'm going to pattern match that onto a
by btown 3y ago
There's a huge gap, though, between the boot camp methodology of essentially "here's a visual design or a set of fields, I'm going to pattern match that onto a single React component or backend endpoint that's isolated to a single file" vs. "I'm comfortable looking up functions 8 files deep into a codebase and maintaining a mental map of what data flows where."
Once you have the latter, either by having built such a codebase, having worked in one, or even having experience with puzzles or games requiring multi-step planning and understanding of the potential failure points at each step... it's absolutely transferable. But there are also a lot of people in our industry who have memorized interview questions and see their role as churning out components. And while arguably that's not a CS education, it's being called the same, and it does a disservice to those people's careers.