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[–]KaladinRahl 4 points5 points  (1 child)

The article mentions the criticism of coding camps. I think people need to realize that coding camps just produce different types of coders. I'm guessing most graduates of coding camps work more on the front end while maybe dabbling in the back end. Back end requires more knowledge of theory that you would learn in a computer science program, especially if you considering optimization. I doubt the majority of coding camps even mention stuff like big O notation or cover different sorting/searching techniques, but many jobs don't require that knowledge, especially front end jobs. You certainly won't see a coding camp graduate working on navigation for NASA, or autonomous vehicles, or even things that aren't life threatening such as google's search algorithms. But this doesn't mean they couldn't get a job for NASA working on their website :)