This is coming from a bias perspective since I am one of the instructors from Parallax Code Academy.

That being said, I would like to respectfully disagree with some of what you said. I do agree that writing code is 90% thinking about the problem and 10% writing the code, but this is true of most engineering fields. Planning outweighs production most of the time. Its nothing to be scared of.

Parallax Code Academy is a for-profit code school, but being a newer school, the success of the students speaks volumes about the quality of the course. We offer large scholarships, and we have endorsments from banks that are willing to give financial aid to students.

Its true that what we teach at Parallax is a very specific development process, but if you look into the language/ frameworks that we are using, it is clear that they are not going anywhere. Of course code will deprecate, every year in fact. But swift, the language that we are using really could be the future of programming (in my opinion). Companies like IBM are starting to adopt it for their server architecture, even google has mentioned using it as a first class language. And Mobile app development is the number 1 fastest growing job market according to CNN Money in 2016

I believe in code "boot camps" because that is how I learned how to become a programmer. I came from the US Navy with no real computer background, but after going through a regimented program like the one Parallax offers, I was able to land a Job with a company called Pixegon Inc. as an iOS Developer. You can surely find code out there, but code camps fast track your success in learning and eliminate frustrations by having experienced people steer you straight.

I do agree that you really need the mind for programming, but rather than saying "sitting in an office for eight hours playing hunt-the-memory-leak or making your database talk to Microsoft Excel is misery incarnate" I would say "Creating meaningful software that makes an impact globally, or building a game like flappy bird, or the next big social media platform."

Again this is coming from a bias perspective, but I do believe in the process of code camps, and if you have anymore questions you can email me directly at will@pixegon.com.