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The Complete Guide to Finding the Right Programming Bootcamp
Everything you need to make an educated decision
In a day and age where technology is becoming increasingly prevalent in our society, bootcamps have become the next hot trend.
Long gone are the days where growing adults feel the desire to go to medical school for a decade or more to become a doctor, all the while racking up tens or hundreds of thousands in debt. No, in this day and age we have trained ourselves to hone in on what takes the absolute least amount of time and brings the largest rewards.
Of course, the rewards are usually thought of as more money or more freedom. Thus the concept of programming boot camps was born, and in just 7 years it has become over a $300 million industry in North America alone.
Having gone through a bootcamp myself, I can assuredly say that it has been one of the best decisions of my life to date. But after coming out on the other end way ahead of where I thought I would be, I can’t help but notice some of my peers that attended along with me didn’t end up so well. Some of them were still looking for a job about 6 months later, some didn’t even finish the 3-month bootcamp in the first place.
I am not naïve enough to think that my class was the only bootcamp every where…
