My Thoughts on Coding Bootcamps vs University Computer Science Degrees

Ahh, the grey space, everyone will recognize it, but still try to make it black and white.

So tons of articles have popped up on Medium and they read more as an advertisement rather than a opinion piece. Sure people are getting paid for clicks, referrals and tips on this platform, but blatantly disregarding one sides arguments and calling it a cult isn’t a convincing argument.

After working/talking with a fair amount of boot camp attendees at Hackathons/conferences and completing a computer science degree myself at a non-prestigious university. I’ll give my true thoughts that isn’t coming from an ad read or seemingly AI generated article.

Theory vs Hands On

One of the biggest talking points about coding boot camps is “real world” experience that isn’t offered at university. Several camps courses are built around spinning up full stack web services, security practices, and testing those services. Hypothetically after completing a course you could land a role as a web developer and/or QA engineer. However, that being most courses I’ve seen others offering programs for data science, DevOps, cybersecurity, UI/UX designing and even product management. Assuming they follow similar patterns of…