in my opinion, hack schools are a complete waste of money. For $ 10k you are over paying. Personally as an Economics major I started with codeacademy a few months ago, git the basics and then started a project. between stack overflow, a dozen other forums and github I am learning quite a lot, and with results. Part of software engineering is quality if products not background academically and am sure with one more year I could be a more than passable apprentice in this