There is a tech path. Comp sci or EE degree, internship, jr dev, dev, senior dev, staff dev, principal dev. Then management. Tech is unique in that it was a new industry that experienced relatively fast growth. Due to this fast growth and boom cycles it created opportunities for self taught devs because sometimes the tech industry just needed bodies. Self taught can only get in during the boom cycles and unfortunately right now the tech companies are going to India and Easter Europe for bodies.

Great video - packed with good insight on paths that you can take. I'm always reminded of a senior dev talking about interviewing junior developers and he said "If you know how to develop... you know how to develop... I couldn't care less how you learned. Rather it's what you can produce"

I agree with you. I think boot camps are the happy medium between self-study and college because there is a certain amount of self-study you need to do in the boot camp like as far as googling and going on like stack overflow to get directions on how to solve a problem in your code. But on the flip side of boot camps, most of them offer tutoring, mentorship, one-on-one engagement with teachers or teachers assistants and I think that is kind of like a form of mentorship. It is very structured in most boot camps to get the supplemental instruction from a tutor or a TA. The boot camp that I am in has a lot of those resources but for some reason, a lot of the students don't utilize the supplemental instruction that's available outside of the classroom because that is a form of mentorship. You pay for it so you need to use it. That's how I see it anyway. And there are some boot camps that offer direct mentorship like where you have one person assigned to you + they guide you throughout the entire program. You meet with them like once a week for an hour to they even help you find jobs things like that. But on the other side of that, that's what career services is for. So I think the boot camps do a good job of filling in some of those gaps. What's the support like at tech elevator? Do you guys have tutors? Any supplemental instruction? Ta availability? Things like that?

My only issue with computer science degrees is that a lot of the information is outdated and that wouldn't be so much of a problem, but because things in technology change pretty quickly, the curriculum would have to always be reviewed and updated probably on an annual basis and I just don't know if traditional colleges have the time or the resources to do that. I think computer science degrees are cool. If maybe you want to teach computer science, you know you would have to get way up into at least a master's degree to be able to teach, but as far as actually applying that knowledge it just would seem difficult to do that when a lot of the curriculum is not updated on an annual basis and I would even say for computer and IT programs. Maybe even semi-annually update the curriculum but the department of education moves very slow so it's just hard