Considering that the sales pitch of Coding House and every other bootcamp I've yet seen is "give us $$$$ and we'll land you a job making $$$$$$," I wouldn't be surprised if bootcamp graduates got a negative, mercenary-like reputation amongst their peers, who overwhelmingly got into programming for the love of it. Obviously you can't blame someone for trying to improve their standing in life, and not everyone discovers programming in childhood or young adulthood, but I don't really understand why code schools are needed when self-education has long been an established, effective alternative to a CS degree.
The whole bootcamp movement smells of opportunists cashing in on the naive and uninformed.
> I don't really understand why code schools are needed when self-education has long been an established, effective alternative to CS university education.
There's probably a real utility to vocationally-focused coding schools; OTOH, there's also quite a lot of opportunity for those who are sharp salesmen without a lot of training or technical acumen to take fleece the naïve who are aware of the high pay in the industry and aren't equipped to evaluate the quality of the institutions.
Unregulated, unaccredited educational programs (heck, even with regulated, accredited programs, less-than-stellar programs of this type are still a problem, though there are more checks and balances to identify and weed them out) promising to get people into highly-paying careers have always been a problem.
http://www.epi.org/publication/pm195-stem-labor-shortages-mi...