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Why Coding Bootcamps Are a Hurdle
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As technological literacy becomes essential to a widening array of professions, technological skills have become nearly synonymous with employment and making money.
This narrative has led to the mass creation of "coding bootcamps" or "coding schools" across the United States. The growth of coding-only schools is troubling. Many of these schools require students to pay thousands of dollars for programs that lack guidelines and have insufficient instruction.
Coding Bootcamps are short programs, usually eight to 12 weeks, offered by for-profit groups that seek to teach students computer programming rapidly. These programs gained popularity in the past decade. The reliability of coding bootcamps is doubtful at best.
The predominant problem with these institutions is that they market their services on the basis that they guarantee you a job when they do little to ensure employment upon graduation. But coding schools don't publish job placement data. The success rate of these institutions is virtually unknown. All they provide is anecdotal evidence of a handful of successful individuals.
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