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Discussion on: How Dev Bootcamps Are Failing Their Students

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JoelBonetR 🥇 • Edited

Totally agree, I always saw bootcamps as a way to specialize yourself AFTER getting an official certificate on an official college/institute, not for becoming a newcomer into software development.

You may know how to work with some technologies after a bootcamp but if it's all that you got you will not know why you need to work that way and what implies on the background. It will also be difficult to change your mindset for working with different languages/stack.

It's the old concern about coding for a browser without knowing how the browser works