What do you think of coding bootcamps?

[ajs1976]

This isn't the first time in history that coding camps have popped up. In the late 1990s, many people paid around $10,000 for MCSE training, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer. Winners obtained jobs paying $80,000 a year. Most weren't that lucky. MCSE wasn't programming as coding was called back then. The popularity and success (success for the purveyors of the training) of the MCSE fueled the offering of classes on how to program. Java and SAP (mainly ABAP) code camps came into being. Some people taught themselves on the cheap. Other people succumbed to the high pressure sales tactics of paying for the classes. Suckers would borrow money to pay for the classes. Trainers were getting paid around $100/hour to teach the classes with rates higher for the more specialized classes.

I started in 2000 and worked with some people that fell for the MCSE training scam. They were sold on the "get your MCSE and make $80,000", but the part that was left out was that most of the people that were making that money after, were probably making over $70,000 before with years of experience and used the MCSE to get raise or a new job.