I had made up my mind on sign up for Arizona state university edx bootcamp, but i was still a bit hesitant. I then came across this video and it confirmed everything i believe about this boot camp. Thank you for making this video, you saved me 14k

This content is so necessary to save people time and thousands of dollars. Thanks for the great content and getting this news out!

Thank you so much. I looked into a Michigan State University bootcamp, talked with a recruiter. I thought that it was directly through the university only to do some digging and found the Reddit post you spoke about in the beginning of the your video.

A few months ago I was debating going for a boot camp. I saw that rice university had a boot camp, and I almost pulled the trigger on it. Luckily I did a little bit of research and found out about all these behind-the-scenes shenanigans. Great to see that you’re spreading awareness, hope this blows up dude.

Thank you for saving me money and my time. Almost enrolled for Rutgers bootcamp and have been getting nonstop calls every day. Definitely better options, thanks for the helpful content man!

Yeah I did one with Ohio State through EDX which used to be trilogy and it was a mess. I will be honest. I was excited about the brand name of the certificate. It was from Ohio State. I thought. Oh wow this will look good on my resume. It'll also help with getting connections in Ohio and outside of Ohio too, but especially in Ohio. So I did the program for one week and it was awful. First thing was the pre-work we were told as web development students that we have pre-work the pre-work was 15 to 20 hours worth of work. I did the work about 2 weeks prior to class. I was getting emails from the student manager one week before classes start reminding me to make sure I have my pre-work done because we were going to go over it and how important it was to do the pre-work because it would set you off on the right track if you had your pre-work done because the pre-work is a reflection of what is going to happen throughout the course of the boot camp. So I get all the pre-work done and it was rigorous but also informative and it was information I never seen before . I probably got about three emails the week before from the student manager checking in to make sure I had it done. So the first day rolls around and our instructor never mention the pre-work. We never went over it. We never discussed it. It was almost like the pre-work didn't even really exist. I don't even recall him asking the class like who got it done. Who didn't because I was under the impression that if the pre-work wasn't done you would be kicked out of the cohort or possibly pushed back if you couldn't get it done during that week because the student manager did say that if it wasn't done that we would work on it the first week of class. So it was like get as much done as you can. But if you can get it all done that would be better. So for the students who were not done they still had a whole week to get done from what I heard from the student manager and so we never went over it as a class. We just jumped right into the curriculum with a bunch of people who didn't do the pre-work. Some people did it but there was quite a few people who did not do it in the pre-work should have been an indicator of who should have stayed in the boot camp versus who should have been pushed back to the next cohort because you should not have been in that cohort. If you didn't have no parts in the pre-work done now I can see if maybe you have you know 70 80% of it done and maybe you got stuck somewhere and you just need a little help during that first week we get you caught up is cool but there were people who just had nothing of it done and they were starting from a a major deficit because it's one thing to be new to programming but it's also another thing to be new to programming and you didn't even get the pre-work done. Stay away from trilogy and those EDX boot camps. If you are going to go to a boot camp, just go to the ones that are tried and true. The flat irons the general assemblies the coding dojo's there's a bunch of them plenty more but you get the point😊

The fast pace of change is actually a big part of the reason why it is possible to start a software development career without years and years of previous study. In fact even expert dev have, from time to time , "to start from scratch ". Then of course a lifetime of study expects you, so if you are joining a bootcamp "to get a good job" you are doomed to failure. You need great genuine passion for coding to drive you trough the bootcamp and after... Bootcamps are basically the ideal tool for people who already somewhat know how to code, like it, but lack the sense of direction , consistency and focus to make a career out of their passion. It is NOT for clueless people who have never written a line of code and think that software deve is a job like any other and that everybody can learn it have a successful career with it.

not sure who will see this message but for what its worth... the udemy bootcamps for 20 bucks are just as good as these grifter boot camps. youll have access to slack, discord channels and now you have chat gpt which is basically better than any TA youre gonna get at a grifter bootcamp. in fact, chat gpt will be like your own personal lead engineer to ask Qs to. UDEMY + CHAT GPT = NO REASON TO PAY THOUSANDS FOR A GRIFTER BOOT CAMP

Playing devil's advocate, why not include some good bootcamps/short courses that deliver some skills cost-effectively without making empty promises. Some allow you free exposure to the courses (without getting the certificate).

I don't know what the hell people are smoking thinking their 3-6 month bootcamp is going to compete with a Bachelor or Masters degree.

What's interesting about edX is that Purdue was initially offering some graduate courses there with their distance learning programs around 2020 counting towards true MS degrees. A year or so later they abruptly stopped doing that with them without even announcing they'd done so. I can't help but think it was a PR issue given their engineering program is highly ranked. They still have some sort of contractual connections with them, but it's nowhere near what was initially envisioned and advertised. Now all their courses that count for credit have been migrated into their internal Brightspace environment.

I recently did a bootcamp. Most, if not all projects were guided. Even the final capstone project was guided. Completely unacceptable.

Any thoughts on college bootcamp providers besides edX/Trilogy? Where I live in Texas, I know of at least three providers: (1) Southern Methodist University, who uses edX, (2) University of Texas at Dallas, who uses Fullstack Academy, and (3) University of Texas at Arlington, who uses Quickstart

Wow i was thinking about signing up for the UCF bootcamps and sure enough it is edx damn

There really isnt much to research on college bootcamps.. like, I honestly cant find many job placement data, or many alumni success stories. I wonder why this is 🤔

I did most of the PY4E course a few months back but had some medical issues affect me and had to stop. Now that I’m better I’m looking at courses online. Currently I’m looking at the Odin project and freecodecamp. What are the options yours looking at?

Thanks for getting the word out Colby. Great video keep it up.

I just did one of those boot camps, with "University of Texas at San Antonio, despite it being helpful because it taught me a lot of coding foundations, of course I didn't feel job ready after graduation, so it is very disappointing they promise the paradise.

Wow I was planning on going to Rutgers coding bootcamp it’s a miracle that this video got suggested to me. Do you have more resources I could look into about the legitimacy of these “college bootcamps” finding unbiased info on them is difficult

And everything you said is correct about them using the name of the school. Because I asked the Dean of engineering at Ohio State. If you can use your certificate credits towards a bachelor degree in engineering or computer science or whatever and he said no. So there's absolutely no curriculum ties to the university, so the curriculum is not even being vetted or overseen by the deans of these colleges. They're really just paying for the name because if they were so hands-on and involved, there's no reason why you couldn't use credits from a web development software development certificate and use that towards a computer science degree so that tells you there that it's not being monitored by the actual college. They're just paying to use the school's name

I nearly messed up because I saw they had a coding python online from Harvard I think it was and I have a Bach in CJ I doubt it’s this easy to get in a class setting just by sending an email so I’m glad I waited to see how predatory people can be

I just started learning python(2 days ago) Print(“hello world”) I’ve taken a C++ class in highschool, it sucked. But I just downloaded python and I’m sprinting thru freecodecamp Harvard CS50 python beginner course. My problem: Do I keep learning python? Is python useful? Ik it is one or the easiest to use but should I start learning out languages. Everything I see on yt for real software/junior developer jobs is for other languages. Ik learning python will help me in most other languages(if anything just the problem solving thought process) but like I said everything seems to be done in other languages then python. If anyone know a real beginner video lmk. I’m self taught and I’m having the problem of wondering what’s next after basic python.

I still have my GI bill left over, would you be able to recommend any coding bootcamps that are vet friendly?

I am currently in the cybersecurity boot camp and have 2 months left and this was a 6 mos waste of time ... the fly through the topics and never really teach you anything. They just present a topic let you follow some instructions to play with it and move on to the next topic. Please dont wast your time and money

I am currently in coding dojo and it is an excellent program a non edex partner. I did the uc Berkley program and due to a technicality I didn’t have to pay but it is a horrible program. The ta’s were rude and not helpful at all. Stay away from edex programs as far as Bootcamp’s are concerned

Quickstart is another company that partners with schools that has an equally bad rep.

What boot camp should I go to?

What if I get the Bootcamp paid for for free

This is why I just went to a university to get my comp sci degree instead of a bootcamp.

Just got off the phone with the Columbia University EdX and it’s a lot of money and I’m just desperate and tired of everything… I have a masters in data analytics and I still can’t find a job I’m just over all of it

ED X = ITT Tech

Coding Dojo is a HUGE waste of time and money. DON'T DO IT. There is so much more value in Udemy courses.

Nucamp aka Nuscam, Beware 50% Cancellation fee