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Re:Single mom sues coding boot camp over job placement rates by bdcravens on Friday April 15, 2022 @09:26PM (#31048193)
Even limiting the college discussion to technology, most CS students will be discovering their interests and talents during that time, dabbling in different languages, not just learning one curated stack. (Every developer will shift language focus at some point in their career; discovering the how and why is important) Many may take on internships.

That said, I think there's a place for essentially "assembly line" developers. However, the income and career trajectory will reflect that, and that's not the dream they are being sold.

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Re:Single mom sues coding boot camp over job placement rates by alistairSH on Saturday April 16, 2022 @07:38AM (#31051530)
That said, I think there's a place for essentially "assembly line" developers. However, the income and career trajectory will reflect that, and that's not the dream they are being sold.

This is fair. And I’d argue for a 2-year degree here. Or, employer-run apprenticeships. The for-profit boot camp, like much of the for-profit college industry, is mostly just an awful industry that shouldn’t exist.

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Re:Single mom sues coding boot camp over job placement rates by JamesBarney on Saturday April 16, 2022 @07:45PM (#31057102)
What's an assembly line developer?
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Re:Single mom sues coding boot camp over job placement rates by alistairSH on Sunday April 17, 2022 @04:26PM (#31064130)
Somebody who builds basic CRUD business applications over and over. Not everybody is building the next Google or Uber or solving complex technical problems.
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