They do. Anyone who takes a web dev class or takes a Senior Project Course should be familiar with it. I was surprised bootcamp grads didn't know about it since it's most often the first slide of a web-dev class.
> I generally think colleges do a meh to poor job of preparing CS grads for the real world,
Often, an issue I've observed is that students will minor in CS and major in something else, or the way the CS program is structured, you can major in CS with mostly math classes. Which is the way to go if a student is aiming at grad school, but not the best in industry.
> They're probably right that someone could do a bootcamp and be on-par with actual engineers.
I'm very skeptical of that claim. I've never seen it play out. Cramming a 4 years degree into 12 weeks?
> I hate them because I feel like they're selling an expensive, unrealistic dream to people who have no way to know better.
I've interviewed someone from a bootcamp who, after 50 minutes, could not come up with a function to count the words in a string. I use it as a warmup question for freshmen who have completed one semester or CS and it usually takes them about 10 minutes.
So yeah, I completely agree if someone paid 12k for that, they got scammed.
They do. Anyone who takes a web dev class or takes a Senior Project Course should be familiar with it. I was surprised bootcamp grads didn't know about it since it's most often the first slide of a web-dev class.
> I generally think colleges do a meh to poor job of preparing CS grads for the real world,
Often, an issue I've observed is that students will minor in CS and major in something else, or the way the CS program is structured, you can major in CS with mostly math classes. Which is the way to go if a student is aiming at grad school, but not the best in industry.
> They're probably right that someone could do a bootcamp and be on-par with actual engineers.
I'm very skeptical of that claim. I've never seen it play out. Cramming a 4 years degree into 12 weeks?
> I hate them because I feel like they're selling an expensive, unrealistic dream to people who have no way to know better.
I've interviewed someone from a bootcamp who, after 50 minutes, could not come up with a function to count the words in a string. I use it as a warmup question for freshmen who have completed one semester or CS and it usually takes them about 10 minutes.
So yeah, I completely agree if someone paid 12k for that, they got scammed.