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What's wrong with having 'no credentials'?

From what I have research, a computer science degree and a boot camp certificate are very different in terms of education. The former focuses on depth and the fundamentals of CS. The latter is more practical and focuses implementation where languages matter more.

I don't think there are that many people deluded to the fact that a 4/5 year long CS course teaches you more than a boot camp.

But as many few people will dispute that you can get started writing production code much faster in the latter.

And what I will add, is that they'll be an average 80% as good as their fresh out of uni CS peers, if not more.

This is spot on. I've employed 2 people in the last year and I can say that the guy with a CS degree had heard of binary tree and big O notation but has no idea about how everything ties together. And CSS and HTML concepts are totally foreign to him. CS degrees are stuck in C land, learning shitty bubble sort implementation in C++ and other crap that doesn't help day to day at all.

From my experience doing a bit of both the bootcamp was focused on getting the results using technology X, Y and traditional study was understanding the paradigms that allow technology X, Y.

To me it is the difference between learning to build and learning to design (something to build).

I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with it. I'm saying that those people are FreeCodeCamp's target demographic.

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