I don’t know how I feel about programming bootcamps because my autodidactic method was mostly a consequence of having access to a computer and some books during an early age. What I do know is that people with similar biographies who talk shit about them should generally stfu.
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Alice: “I’m going to learn to program at a bootcamp!” — Bob: “Bootcamps are a scam. Real programmers learn by reading the books I read and coding their own operating system in emacs.” — Carol: “That’s great. ‘Hello, Carol!’ LMK if you need help!” — Be Carol.
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*"Hello, Alice!" Dammit.
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Bootcamps are totally a scam (except for a very select few) and my answer to that is community college + in-person mentorship + MOOCs. Learning on your own is super hard and I think it should be part of the process but not the whole answer.
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But sometimes, I feel some courses online are too general and superficial, here I refer to Coursera.
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I've had a few great experiences. At one point in my PhD, I felt like my game theory was really rusty, so I took this (IIRC) course and it was wonderfully done.https://www.coursera.org/learn/game-theory-1 …
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Also, given the basic background math, I think @AndrewYNg's machine learning course is fantsastichttps://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning …
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It could be that I’m looking at it from a view of knowledge, but you have a good point that someone is completely new to learning the topic, it would be a good way to start to immerse themselves.
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