Re:Ask HN: I just dropped out of college, should I do a codi...
by heliodor on Saturday December 07, 2013 @06:02PM
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while the job of your college may be to churn out mediocre Java developers for big corporations, the job of bootcamps is to churn out mediocre Ruby developers for startups. Same thing. Good colleges teach you theory, which is much more important than the vocational aspects.
If you're not learning the engineering basics or methodologies in your CS program, then you need a better college, not a coding bootcamp.
If you're not learning the engineering basics or methodologies in your CS program, then you need a better college, not a coding bootcamp.