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Ask HN: Any “bootcamps” or courses for intermediate/advanced people?

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Re: Ask HN: Any “bootcamps” or courses for intermediate/advanced people?

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Post by baron816 »

I highly recommend Frontend Masters: https://frontendmasters.com/courses/.

Lots of different courses taught by the likes of Douglas Crockford, Kyle Simpson, Ryan Chenkie, and Kent C Dodds. It's not just front end stuff--they cover data structures and algorithms, building REST apis, Electron and React Native, testing and debugging, functional programming, prototyping, and even SEO.

Re: Ask HN: Any “bootcamps” or courses for intermediate/advanced people?

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Post by trill_winds »

ozanonay wrote: post #42

Hi! I'm one of the instructors at Bradfield: https://bradfieldcs.com . We teach computer science to strong programmers, typically those who were self taught, attended bootcamps or weren't quite satisfied with their conventional CS experience. We teach in small classes, strictly in person in SF. I know this sucks for folk (like OP) who are outside SF, but honestly you can't teach this stuff to a high enough standard r…

Current student here - I went through a bootcamp and have been autodidacting ever since. I've gone through coursera, udacity, edx, MIT OCW, Stanford Lagunitas, OSS's computer science program, and finally Bradfield. Bradfield was by far and large the best experience I've had learning advanced material. Oz (commenting above), is the most talented and natural pedagogue I've met.

The best thing about Bradfield though is that it has the feel of a lifestyle business run by people whose call to arms in life is learning and teaching computer science. This isn't an interview skills factory - the focus is on learning and loving an important and fascinating branch of science, mathematics, and thinking. Personally, I think that difference ultimately makes you a better interviewer and engineer in practice, but again, that's not the point.

Still one of the best decisions I've made yet.

Re: Ask HN: Any “bootcamps” or courses for intermediate/advanced people?

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Post by cusack »

ozanonay wrote: post #42

Hi! I'm one of the instructors at Bradfield: https://bradfieldcs.com . We teach computer science to strong programmers, typically those who were self taught, attended bootcamps or weren't quite satisfied with their conventional CS experience. We teach in small classes, strictly in person in SF. I know this sucks for folk (like OP) who are outside SF, but honestly you can't teach this stuff to a high enough standard r…

I did https://bradfieldcs.com after working as a IC for awhile and found it hugely valuable. I didn't have a CS undergrad and worked in Node, so skipped the majority the deeper fundamental studies around databases, networking, and computer architecture since I was abstracted from them in day-to-day work (or at least thought I was...:)).

I took a 10wk leave from work to go full-time through Bradfield and would recommend it to anyone that's spent time working as an engineer and is interested in leveling up generally or refining a specific skill set.

The stuff I learned there has ended up showing up almost daily for me at work and I've since been promoted to technical lead.

Re: Ask HN: Any “bootcamps” or courses for intermediate/advanced people?

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Post by seangrogg »

kevmo wrote: post #39
swyx wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wow you dont accept bootcamp grads? we're precisely the kind of people that need you. do you have any interview prep peers you would recommend that are slightly lower tier than you? or do you have a detailed syllabus anywhere?

I think it makes sense to not accept brand-new bootcamp grads. That subset of people should already be able to at least get on a junior web or QA engineer position and will be better served by actually getting out there and doing it. Going straight into one of these programs would be the equivalent of getting a Master's just because you don't know what to do after getting your Bachelor's.

> Going straight into one of these programs would be the equivalent of getting a Master's just because you don't know what to do after getting your Bachelor's.

In all fairness, isn't this exactly the situation for most of the people pursuing their Master's?

Re: Ask HN: Any “bootcamps” or courses for intermediate/advanced people?

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Post by calren24 »

bogomipz wrote: post #29
zengr wrote: post #7

I have done CodePath twice and highly recommend for iOS and android bootcamps. https://codepath.com/

The site states: >"Students must pass a rigorous selection process to be admitted to any of our programs." Would you be able to share what that selection process entails exactly?

From my experience, selection process was submitting your resume, going through a short phone screen (15-20 minutes, mostly just chatting about why you're interested and your background) and completing a intro project (it took me around 8-10 hours)

Re: Ask HN: Any “bootcamps” or courses for intermediate/advanced people?

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Post by bogomipz »

cusack wrote: post #55
ozanonay wrote: post #42

Hi! I'm one of the instructors at Bradfield: https://bradfieldcs.com . We teach computer science to strong programmers, typically those who were self taught, attended bootcamps or weren't quite satisfied with their conventional CS experience. We teach in small classes, strictly in person in SF. I know this sucks for folk (like OP) who are outside SF, but honestly you can't teach this stuff to a high enough standard r…

I did https://bradfieldcs.com after working as a IC for awhile and found it hugely valuable. I didn't have a CS undergrad and worked in Node, so skipped the majority the deeper fundamental studies around databases, networking, and computer architecture since I was abstracted from them in day-to-day work (or at least thought I was...:)). I took a 10wk leave from work to go full-time through Bradfield and would recomme…

>"I took a 10wk leave from work to go full-time through Bradfield and would recommend it to anyone that's spent time working as an engineer and is interested in leveling up generally or refining a specific skill set."

Can you elaborate on the "full-time" part. In looking at the site it looks like the independent course modules are each 4 weeks with two 3 hour sessions a week for $1800 each. Were you somehow able to take multiple modules per week for each of the 10 weeks? If so how many did you do? Thanks,

Re: Ask HN: Any “bootcamps” or courses for intermediate/advanced people?

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Post by nilkn »

This is not exactly what you're looking for, but it's somewhat similar and may be of interest to some readers of this thread.

The Google Brain team accepts residents:

https://research.google.com/teams/brain/residency/

It's similar to a one-year research-focused advanced degree in machine learning (with the focus being, of course, entirely on deep learning).

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