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I don't get it. Recruiter contacted you to attend something and wants your money? Never attended or planning to attend any bootcamps or similar so maybe I don't quite understand the issue here, but if it was myself I'd finish the school, learn the stack in my free time and kept the money in pocket..
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@myss no... it's a 12 week course (bootcamp). Usually you have to pay for them up front. But they are deferred tuition which means you don't pay a cent until you land a job. Then you pay the percent of salary that was agreed upon
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@dalastTomCruise don’t take the boot camp you’ll have better options at the end of your course
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@owithg .5% is a bit exaggerating for low payment... look these bootcamps cost on avg 10000 up front... but this tuition is deffered. although they train you in a specific stack they teach you how to plan projects, TDD, data structures and algorithm, design patterns, ect... things that can be applied to other stacks. I already have 3 years of self experience, but this looks like a good reinforcer and growing opportunity from the research I've done... also the deferred tuition is nice because they really have to invest in you to get a job so they can get paid. They also go over portfolio's (everything you create in the program goes on you port), interviewing and resume building...
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@dalastTomCruise is that 10000usd?! I wouldn't pay that for a boot camp. What I was meaning is, how long do you pay from your wages? And what if you become a grocery clerk?
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@FitzSuperUser why not bootcamp, land job and finish school while working job? I am not picky with what stack I am using... if I start as a Javascript developer it doesn't matter. As long as I land a good paying job after, then I will be fine. Retail at 12 an hour isn't fun when you've been programming for 3 years and know how much the skill set is worth. The degree will take 2 years and is only an associates... can be too many more options than bootcamp. I will do both, just a matter of in what order. To me the bootcamp is designed to get you a job, so I will be working way sooner if I do that and can pay my schooling... that's just how I am looking at it. Time constraints
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@dalastTomCruise sounds like you d made your mind up mate
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@owithg you mean what if I don't get a developer position? I don't believe that they will tax an hourly pay... they state "percentage off of salary..." so it has to be more of a career than a job. But I haven't gotten the details yet... I will obviously make sure they mean a developers salary not any jobs salary. And yes 10000 is apparently average cost of BC
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@FitzSuperUser hahaha right. I am kind of just tired and want to get in the industry... but I will give it the rest of the day and see how I feel about it.
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@owithg you pay 1 year hiring salary only. Once that year is up that's it. So if they were asking for 10% and I landed a job with 60,000 then they would get 6,000 and that's it. Life goes on.
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@alphaCoder it seems really good, but I saw the 2k down payment and decided to not do it haha
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@dalastTomCruise You should check out their prep. It’s one of the best out there. The resources I used to learn are The Odin Project, Lynda.com, Epicodus’ curriculum at learnhowtoprogram.com and Michael Hartl’s Ruby on Rails tutorial. These should be enough to land you a junior developer role and then can advance to a mid level developer position by learning from real life projects. Bootcamps are good but almost everything is available online if you can commit and dedicate yourself to learning how to code.
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@alphaCoder I will definitely check it out. I have been self developing for 3 years and have decided to do an associates in programming. I will continue to do projects and will take a look at your recommendations. Thanks!
Hey guys, I have a big decision to make and wanted some advice before I did so. I got an email from a recruiter (who looked at my git repos) with viking code and was offered placement in their immersive program. The immersive progrAm is 12 weeks long and amounts to 1000 hours of training...the stack is something like javascript,angularjs,ruby, ect... finally the program is deferred tuition so I pay with a percentage of my salary.
The only issue is I was going to start school for a 2 year associates of applied science (programming specialist ) degree. If I do the bootcamp it would postpone school. So my decision comes down to doing the bootcamp and postponing school, or finish school then possibly see if there is an opening in 2 years for bootcamp. What do y'all think?
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