As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change

The article and the cited boot camp programs left me confused. If you are exploring this, you might find http://www.skilledup.com/articles/the-ultimate-guide-to-codi... useful.

Boot camps are intense: there is a heavy time commitment (12 weeks, 6 days per week, 11 hours per day). The focus is on getting 6-figure salaries for "coding" with lots of well known company badges indicating where graduates have been hired and what percentage get high paying good jobs. There is no real mention about curriculum and what there is uses buzz words like "data scientist" and "full stack" and talks only in broad-brush terms. Typically, there is no mention of who is on the staff and what their credentials are. Admissions are very selective. Costs vary but are generally significant.

Initially I brushed off the boot camp ideas as teaching "coding" and not "programming", but I am trying to keep an open mind. How many people who get Turing Awards in the next few decades will have learned their chops in a boot camp coding course?