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Re:California regulator seeks to shut down 'learn to code' b... by wpietri on Wednesday January 29, 2014 @10:13PM (#7148846)
For a 12-week boot camp, it is going to take attendees a fair bit longer than 12 weeks to learn that they've been duped. A school, by definition, takes in people who don't know what they're doing.

Sure, most HNers could tell in a day that they're being duped. But most HNers don't need the boot camps in the first place to get a tech-sector job.

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Re:California regulator seeks to shut down 'learn to code' b... by tn13 on Thursday January 30, 2014 @10:56PM (#7155149)
What is difficult for ordinary people is difficult for government too. How can government figure out the usefulness (which is a not so tangible thing) of a bootcamp ?

If government stays out of this it is likely that the bootcamps will end up giving "free one week course" etc. This is very common in India where non regulated coaching and training centers tend to give a free one day to one week course which the pupil may convert into a paid one.

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