At least, the few my work paid for some years back were essentially that.
From the sounds of it though a lot of places are abusing these to create micro IIT Techs that hand out near worthless certificates.
At least, the few my work paid for some years back were essentially that.
From the sounds of it though a lot of places are abusing these to create micro IIT Techs that hand out near worthless certificates.
The name 'boot camp' doesn't really imply that they would be.
Right, same with MOOCs. I am a pretty experienced engineer already, I recently took a course on EdX[1]. I wanted to round out my R (mainly a Python guy but there is some cool stuff in the R ecosystem), revise some of the maths from undergrad 20+ years ago, try out a MOOC, and take a peek into an area of computing I'd had no exposure to. I enjoyed it and I got a lot out of it and would recommend it to others. But could I have been a non-programmer, completed that course, and been adequately prepared to begin a career in industry? Absolutely not.
And to be fair that is not how that course is pitched, but there are some that are, that have even less content in them. $200 is a bargain for a working engineer who wants a new skill, or is even just curious. $20000 is a massive scam for a beginner who thinks they can kickstart a career that way.