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Re:About Coding House (2014) on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @06:22PM (#9495380)
A huge shortage of devs, and yet somehow their wages remain suspiciously flat:

http://www.epi.org/publication/pm195-stem-labor-shortages-mi...

Re:About Coding House (2014) on Tuesday May 05, 2015 @05:56PM (#9495246)
Considering that the sales pitch of Coding House and every other bootcamp I've yet seen is "give us $$$$ and we'll land you a job making $$$$$$," I wouldn't be surprised if bootcamp graduates got a negative, mercenary-like reputation amongst their peers, who overwhelmingly got into programming for the love of it. Obviously you can't blame someone for trying to improve their standing in life, and not everyone discovers programming in childhood or young adulthood, but I don't really understand why code schools are needed when self-education has long been an established, effective alternative to a CS degree.

The whole bootcamp movement smells of opportunists cashing in on the naive and uninformed.