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Discussion on: Degree program or bootcamp?

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Jon Wright

Unless the boot camp is free, or close to free, I'd suggest a degree.

With a boot camp you will likely learn trending technologies, but don't believe them when they say you will be job ready in 16 weeks. That's just not realistic. You will continue to feel overwhelmed.

I took a 16 week boot camp. It took me much longer to get to a point that I felt ready to actively search for a job.

Maybe I over prepared, but I know I wasn't ready at 16 weeks. I didn't understand the flow of data in the project I had built. It just mimicked another project, so it did work.

Fortunately, my boot camp was free. I will say, it did set me on the road to know how to learn for myself, and that is valuable. But it didn't deliver on making me employable when I completed the course.