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A 37-year-old wanting to learn computer science

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165 points chbkall | 3 comments | 05 Jul 25 08:52 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source
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noelwelsh ◴[05 Jul 25 10:40 UTC] No.44471734[source]▶
In a good economy, one year is more than enough time to get a job (considering most bootcamps are 12 weeks, and I know a lot of bootcamp graduates who are employed as developers.) Learning on the job can be beneficial as you usually have others to learn with, and learning is contextualized.

Good luck with it!

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1. ilamont ◴[05 Jul 25 12:37 UTC] No.44472387[source]▶
Are boot camps still a thing? I thought the bloom was off, as documented here many times in recent years.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15095805

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2. trollbridge ◴[05 Jul 25 17:45 UTC] No.44474318[source]▶
Boot camps are largely a way to separate people from their money and leave them in $12k of debt.
3. noelwelsh ◴[05 Jul 25 21:23 UTC] No.44475665[source]▶
Bootcamps are definitely problematic in many cases, and I'm sure they are not as popular as they once were. However I personally know a bunch of people who have been through bootcamps and are now employed as software developers, so in some cases they do work.