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trandana • Edited

What you call "over engineering" is called doing it correctly.The reality is most bootcamp grads make really bad code that needs to be fixed by a someone.

I agree that not every bootcamp grads is bad. Many have CS degrees or years of development experience.

But to think that a bootcamp alone is going to put you on the same level or close to the same level as a CS grad is insulting to every CS grad who worked hard for 4 years to grasp the knowledge. Passing a CS degree off as just "theoretical" fluff just shows the narrow-minded focus of web devs these days. A bootcamp is less than one semester of a CS degree. A CS degree has another 7 semesters on top.

"Define computer science"

Graphics programming, physics engines, game development, real time simulation, high performance computing, databases, embedded, networking, artificial intelligence, software engineering, human computer interaction, cloud computing, security, algorithms/data structures, computational sciences. Those are just some of the sub fields of CS. I can go on...and then you have web development.

Bootcamps are a scam. They take often a lot of money (upwards of 15k sometimes) and promise you the world. They teach you how to hide the fact you are a bootcamp grad. When you finish you find there are no jobs, (except maybe basic web stuff, and even that is rare). A bootcamp promises to turn you into a software engineer without ever doing a single software engineering course. Its a joke. Bootcamps create software technicians at best. You learn a framework or two that last you until the industry no longer uses it. ( Which doesn't take long in the software industry).

And yes, any good university does in fact teach web development using new frameworks.

As for saying CS guys have no clue what they are doing, don't kid yourself

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Caitlyn Greffly

There are a lot of things I could discuss here, but I just want to disagree with the suggestion that bootcampers need to learn to hide the fact that they came from a bootcamp. I suppose one of the reasons I wrote this article is I want to advocate for people who decide to make the career transition via bootcamp to be proud and see what skills they can bring to the table.