Re:The Coding Bootcamp That Wants To Be The CS Degree Of The...
by malandrew on Saturday September 07, 2013 @05:37PM
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So we recently spoke with a bunch of Hack Reactor graduates and were very impressed with several of them.
What I took away from the experience is that the Hack Reactor approach is excellent for retraining within the industry. Several of the graduates were not new programmers, but had instead been programming largely in an entirely different part of the industry and had attended Hack Reactor to get up to speed in the JavaScript and web technologies community.
I personally think it would be awesome to be able to leave not only a job but an entire section of the industry and go explore some completely different part of the industry via a highly specialized bootcamp. I would love to take full stack web programming skills and spend 3-6 months in an accelerated program to get in depth in a specific area that is interesting today and likely to be very in demand for the foreseeable future like machine learning, cryptography or distributed systems.
What I took away from the experience is that the Hack Reactor approach is excellent for retraining within the industry. Several of the graduates were not new programmers, but had instead been programming largely in an entirely different part of the industry and had attended Hack Reactor to get up to speed in the JavaScript and web technologies community.
I personally think it would be awesome to be able to leave not only a job but an entire section of the industry and go explore some completely different part of the industry via a highly specialized bootcamp. I would love to take full stack web programming skills and spend 3-6 months in an accelerated program to get in depth in a specific area that is interesting today and likely to be very in demand for the foreseeable future like machine learning, cryptography or distributed systems.