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How do customers finance a twenty thousand dollars course? Edit: This [1] blog post loosely explains it. Pave, which is one of the "lenders" has the following terms: $3,000 - $25,000 6.97% to 27.10% APR 2 - 3 Year Terms No Prepayment Penalty [1] http://www.hackreactor.com/blog/partnerships-with-lenders-pa...
Most colleges cost far, far more, and yet many many people find a way to pay for them.
Drop me an e-mail if you're considering one of these, I'll happily mentor people for significantly less than that, and I'm a full-time, active, multidisciplinary coder with 20+ years experience and background in both UX and visual design. And with enough industry contacts to almost certainly find you somewhere interesting to land afterwards. I've taught classes at New York University and the School of Visual Arts and…
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Maybe. I think they should stop calling it a bootcamp and simply refer to it as a technical degree in software. People might take it more seriously.
>refer to it as a technical degree in software So, you think they should just blatantly lie about what their program is? It isn't a degree of any kind, or anything even approaching a degree. It is a bootcamp, and people should take it exactly as seriously as the name implies.
Obviously not. My point is that the term used is too trendy. Calling it something more serious might prove more useful in the long term. Maybe even turning into something that is an actual technical degree with proper accreditation.
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Most colleges cost far, far more, and yet many many people find a way to pay for them.
Massive amounts of debt.
Furthermore, most people going through these bootcamps are doing it for a career transition. It's nontrivial but totally doable to save $20k for someone working.
As someone actively trying to hire front-end developers I've come to see Hack Reactor as a red flag. Unless the candidate was selected as a tutor for the next batch I rarely let them past the resume screen.
Was this due to poor experience with people from the program in the past?
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Massive amounts of debt.
Many people also find ways to pay for college without debt. Furthermore, most people going through these bootcamps are doing it for a career transition. It's nontrivial but totally doable to save $20k for someone working.
If I'm a recent graduate (non CS major) and I have been learning JavaScript since last September.. should I join a bootcamp to become a frontend developer or is there a better path? I taught myself everything and now I use AngularJS and NodeJS. Half way trough a web app and will deploy it on Heroku to get some feedback. But I don't think I'm job ready yet since I don't know the best practices or how to write cleaner…
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Many people also find ways to pay for college without debt. Furthermore, most people going through these bootcamps are doing it for a career transition. It's nontrivial but totally doable to save $20k for someone working.
31% of college students graduate without debt. http://ticas.org/posd/map-state-data-2015