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Re:As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check by roel_v on Friday August 25, 2017 @04:09AM (#15096947)
"There is a Physics PhD, undergrads in Mathematics and Physics, an acctuary Statistician from an insurance company, a Mom, and Biology grad, and a Veteran. An elclectic group I feel."

How can this work? I mean, I can understand those with a math background being there to learn the tooling and programming, but how can a mom (presumably with no prior education?) and a vet (also presumably without any other qualifications) keep up? Or, if they're teaching at the level of 'this is the slope in a linear equation', what's in it for the math guys? I just don't understand how this sort of thing works in real life.

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Re:As Coding Boot Camps Close, the Field Faces a Reality Check by upvotinglurker on Friday August 25, 2017 @12:35PM (#15099811)
It's implied that the vet is the commenter themselves ("picked up a Veteran Scholarship worth half my $16,000 tuition"), who "came from a mix of technologies (approximate knowledge, but a master of none)" - hardly "no qualifications."

There's no reason to assume the mom isn't similar (many stay-at-home mothers in the US have college degrees).

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