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Computer Science: Just the Useful Bits
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The Rise of Computer Science Boot Camps
I personally think the rise of boot camps are one of the most encouraging signs in our industry in a very long time. We just have to figure out how to do boot camps well, but I completely agree that they're a great thing. You could probably hire somebody out of a boot camp and it's a complete disaster or you could hire someone out of aboot camp and they turn out to be great. It still baffles me how that can be true because you have to be like smart and hardworking to get good grades in a CS degree program. And so while I think the variance is a little lower on a four year university degree, it's not that much lower.
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