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Discussion on: How Dev Bootcamps Are Failing Their Students

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I can't speak for the other schools but I went to Lambda School. They used to be MERN stack, but now teach sqlite3 and Postgres as db instead. I learned Mongo/mongoose in curriculum before it was switched to pg and then led student groups while they were learning postgres.

In CS, they teach DS & A in Python to get a second OOP language experience. In addition when I went through curriculum we covered concepts in C as well. I think they cut C out to focus more on fundamentals of Python and learning to think like an engineer...bc I can tell you from experience learning both in a short time was super overwhelming!

For me personally, I needed more time to learn to break down problems like an engineer would. However, Lambda gave that to me by allowing me to intern as a CS student leader.

The opportunity is there, but learning to ask for that opportunity is hard. I had to learn that it was okay to fail and flex the timeline to suit my needs. Lambda does this with no financial penalty.