Does anyone have experience hiring people from these camps vs. those who did study on their own?
I'm in Boston, did some programming in college (mostly C++, a bit of HTML and CSS - a few web sites for family, mostly for fun) and then had the slight misfortune of going to law school just before law crashed. We all make mistakes, but I did mostly IP so I hope it comes in handy down the road.
Anyway, I've been helping with a startup doing a little bit of everything and have been using Team Treehouse to work through Ruby and iOS (since that's what the coders do at work). I'm basically working for free and can only find "internships" for non-tech people. (I do have another part-time job that pays something)
I can't afford $10k for a bootcamp. If I keep going with Treehouse and Code Academy, produce some small projects, will that be taken seriously? These camps are full-time for a few weeks, but I'm learning part-time for months.
I'm in Boston, did some programming in college (mostly C++, a bit of HTML and CSS - a few web sites for family, mostly for fun) and then had the slight misfortune of going to law school just before law crashed. We all make mistakes, but I did mostly IP so I hope it comes in handy down the road.
Anyway, I've been helping with a startup doing a little bit of everything and have been using Team Treehouse to work through Ruby and iOS (since that's what the coders do at work). I'm basically working for free and can only find "internships" for non-tech people. (I do have another part-time job that pays something)
I can't afford $10k for a bootcamp. If I keep going with Treehouse and Code Academy, produce some small projects, will that be taken seriously? These camps are full-time for a few weeks, but I'm learning part-time for months.