If you're going to put in months of "prep work", you don't really need a boot camp to learn how to be a programmer. At best, it's an expensive job placement program that forces you to do a lot of homework to cover their own reputation. Which is brilliant.

Background: I've been programming for over a decade; I'm self-taught and I've taught a handful of other people very early in their programming careers. Even the folks who mastered the fundamentals didn't really grasp the advanced concepts in a few weeks (probably due to being really busy with work, etc.).

Also, I rather dislike the term "software engineer" when referring to developers who have not been licensed: http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/positions/Engineertitle0213.pd...