I've been helping out a friend with an app MVP, and he's found a lady to supplement the dev team from a bootcamp.
- She told me most of the people dropped out. Only a handful managed to actually finish the course.
- She's an ex designer with iOS experience, so that makes it easier.
- She's got a job already. Had to cross the US, but she was being wooed by a number of firms.
- She knows the tools. XCode, Git, SourceTree. Cuts down intro time by a lot.
- She's pretty good at the work (very keen as well), but not experienced. Anything I show her, she seems to understand. Basically it looks like they've given her a good practical foundation, but not a whole lot of breadth (how could you in such a short space?). So she's seen all the internal bits of iOS and can start hacking at our app, but if I go through the big-O of an algo (which actually came up), it might take a while to sink in.
Comparing this to my brother, a CS undergrad from an Ivy, it's like he's got the theoretical foundations, but not a lot of the practical side. To actually be productive, you need to spend time on things like version control, and the specifics of various languages and IDEs. He does come across these things, but it appears to be incidental. Yet there's so much work on these courses, the sheer volume of practical things will probably add up.
- She told me most of the people dropped out. Only a handful managed to actually finish the course.
- She's an ex designer with iOS experience, so that makes it easier.
- She's got a job already. Had to cross the US, but she was being wooed by a number of firms.
- She knows the tools. XCode, Git, SourceTree. Cuts down intro time by a lot.
- She's pretty good at the work (very keen as well), but not experienced. Anything I show her, she seems to understand. Basically it looks like they've given her a good practical foundation, but not a whole lot of breadth (how could you in such a short space?). So she's seen all the internal bits of iOS and can start hacking at our app, but if I go through the big-O of an algo (which actually came up), it might take a while to sink in.
Comparing this to my brother, a CS undergrad from an Ivy, it's like he's got the theoretical foundations, but not a lot of the practical side. To actually be productive, you need to spend time on things like version control, and the specifics of various languages and IDEs. He does come across these things, but it appears to be incidental. Yet there's so much work on these courses, the sheer volume of practical things will probably add up.