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Who Should Skip a Coding Bootcamp, According to Kelly Vaughn?

On Ladybug Podcast's New Career, Who Dis?, a host asks Kelly Vaughn whether anyone should skip a coding bootcamp. The first instinct in the room is that bootcamps are for beginners. Vaughn, who taught them, disagrees. She has had students who were already employed software engineers, with computer science degrees, who felt over their heads at work. A bootcamp made them more confident and, she says, transformed their careers. It helps when a CS graduate never got practical experience. She agrees that someone very advanced, such as a person with a master's in computer science, will probably get less from it than a beginner would.

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