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I never took any university courses on programming/computer science, and I'm working full-time as a product developer at a digital agency. In fact, when I interviewed at FreshForm, I wasn't asked any questions about my college/courses. Everything was based on the work I'd done, which came as a result of learning over about 4 years. I started slow with html, css, etc. Then moved on to PHP/MySQL, eventually started bui…
It boils down to this :
Do you prefer a structured learning experience and being in a meatspace community away from where you were living?
Do you prefer having a crappy job and tutoring yourself during that time period in an unstructured fashion?
I'd go as further as saying, that if you aren't able to self teach yourself programming, then you can't be a programmer, no matter what classes and universities you attend. Programming involves a lot of continuous learning anyway.
We just graduated our first cohort, and after 8 weeks, they've learned enough to get entry-level ruby jobs techcrunch.com/2012/05/10/dev-boot-camp-is-a-ruby-success/
There are also less intense courses out there like bloc.io
Absolutely! We just graduated our first cohort, and after 8 weeks, they've learned enough to get entry-level ruby jobs techcrunch.com/2012/05/10/dev-boot-camp-is-a-ruby-success/ There are also less intense courses out there like bloc.io