Bootcamps vs. College

Re:Bootcamps vs. College by pbiggar on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:15PM (#11731768)

> This does not leave bootcamp grads equivalently skilled to university grads. If you want to do hard algorithmic or low-level programming, you’re still better served by traditional CS eduction.

Or, if I may suggest, a low-level/algorithmic bootcamp.

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Re:Bootcamps vs. College by ammon on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:21PM (#11731836)

I think it's possible that these things just fundamentally take more time to learn well. I'd be happy to be proven wrong, however.

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Re:Bootcamps vs. College by pbiggar on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:27PM (#11731901)

Judging from my own experience, spending some time through the start of Skiena's Algorithm Design Manual, with a side of Programming Pearls or Practice of Programming, would do wonders and easily outstrip a CS education. I'd say you could do it in less than 200 hours, which is about 3 weeks of dedicated bootcamper time.

Maybe dev-bootcamp should offer an optional extra module?

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Re:Bootcamps vs. College by adpirz on Thursday May 19, 2016 @02:00PM (#11732198)

As a bootcamp grad m'self who would love to do more deep dives into algos/data structures, I'm intrigued. Any other recs?

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Re:Bootcamps vs. College by bshlgrs on Thursday May 19, 2016 @01:25PM (#11731880)

I think a low-level/algorithmic bootcamp would be great, and it wouldn't be that hard to make one.

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