[lug] Fwd: ACM Queue’s Kode Vicious weighs in on the value of coding bootcamps

[Davide Del Vento]

Interesting read, IMHO.


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Software engineering career paths have become increasingly promising, and
the number of non-traditional educational routes one can take to enter the
industry have proliferated. Bootcamps and coding academies, both in-person
and online, promise to turn students with little to no technical background
into employable developers in as little as three months. These schools
often focus on teaching the hottest, most in-demand technologies that are
most likely to get graduates hired at startups.

In the latest installment of his “Kode Vicious” column in *ACM Queue*
<https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3361872>, *George Neville-Neil* offers
his take on the value of this relatively new educational model.
Highlighting that bootcamps teach “neither computer science nor software
engineering,” KV advises those considering one of these academies to “pick
a course that will introduce concepts that can be used into the future,
rather than just a specific set of buzzword technologies that are hot this
year.”

According to Neville-Neil, bootcamp graduates are essentially “front-end
plumbers” who “unclog the series of pipes that run between businesses and
consumers' wallets.” Nonetheless, with the right conceptual tools and
enough real-world experience, these individuals can one day blossom into
full-fledged software engineers, even by the stringent standards of Kode
Vicious.

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