Dev Bootcamp

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Dev Bootcamp
Location
San Francisco, California, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Information
Type Private
Established 2012
Founder Shereef Bishay, Jesse Farmer, and Dave Hoover
Faculty 20
Number of students 350 (per year)
Campus Urban
Website DevBootcamp.com

Dev Bootcamp is an immersive 9-week computer programming program founded by Shereef Bishay, Jesse Farmer, and Dave Hoover in February 2012.[1][2] It is designed to make graduates job-ready by the end of the program.[3][4] Dev Bootcamp is headquartered in San Francisco, California, with an additional locations in Chicago and New York City.[1] Dev Bootcamp has announced that a location will be opening in New York City on March 31, 2014. [5]

The program

The program is 9 weeks of intensive training in professional web development, including Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.[6][7][8] The program takes students with little or no prior programming experience and teaches them the fundamentals of computer programming.[9][10] The program's goal is to develop the necessary skills within the students to make them job-ready for an entry-level developer position.[9] Applicants have varied backgrounds, ranging from students who have master's degrees in computer science to Starbucks baristas.[9]

The program values learning by building and doing; in contrast to traditional classrooms, Dev Bootcamp students work through a series of programming challenges, usually working in pairs or small groups, which culminates in a final group project.[11][12][13] The tuition costs are $12,200 for the 9 week, 40 hour per week program. Core class hours are weekdays 9am-6pm in San Francisco and 8am-5pm in Chicago. However, most students stay nights and weekends, which amounts to an approximate 70-80 hours per week.[9] Dev Bootcamp organizes hiring days for technology companies to interview students.[9] They then collect a referral fee from employers that hire their graduates, and they pass along part of that fee to the graduate in the form of a hiring bonus.[9]

Phases

The program is divided into three core phases, each lasting three weeks. In the first phase, students learn some of the fundamentals of computer programming in Ruby, including algorithms and database querying. The next phase introduces front-end technologies and combines them with previously learned material. The final phase brings everything full-circle with the Ruby on Rails framework. In this phase, students build a web application from scratch. [14]

Students are also required to remotely complete 12 weeks of preparation material before the on-location courses begin. Boots may also opt-in to an additional phase 4 which includes teacher assistance hours and adjunct lectures.[15]

Reception

Dev Bootcamp has been featured in The Chicago Tribune, Fast Company, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Inc. Magazine.[7][8][9][16][17][18] Of individuals who graduate from Dev Bootcamp, 95% find jobs with an average starting salary of $85,000.[9]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Empson, Rip. Startups Court Dev Bootcamp’s Ruby Grads: 88% Have Offers At Average Of $79K. Tech Crunch. May 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ Wong, Wailin. Dev Bootcamp Coming to Chicago Next Spring. Chicago Tribune. December 3, 2012.
  3. ↑ Olanoff, Drew. Dev Bootcamp in San Francisco just increased the number of Ruby devs by 20. The Next Web. March 31, 2012.
  4. ↑ Rowinski, Dan. Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks to Code and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup. Read Write Web. May 10, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Announcing Dev Bootcamp New York City". October 30, 2013. 
  6. ↑ E.B. Boyd (February 10, 2012). "A Hacker School That Helps Solve Silicon Valley's Hiring Problem". Fast Company. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Boonsri Dickinson (January 4, 2012). "Business Insider". 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Michael Staton (December 3, 2012). "How Dev Bootcamp Is Transforming Education To Focus On "Extreme Employability"". TechCrunch. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5 9.6 9.7 Wailin Wong (December 3, 2012). "Dev Bootcamp coming to Chicago next spring". Chicago Tribune. 
  10. ↑ Kyle Leishear (December 13, 2012). "Dev Bootcamp Producing Amazing Talents". Technorati. 
  11. ↑ Fran Berkman. "This Dev Bootcamp Will Make You More Hireable in 9 Weeks". Mashable. 
  12. ↑ About. Dev Bootcamp.
  13. ↑ By J.D. Hildebrand (January 9, 2012). "A novel solution to the programmer education problem". Software Development Times. 
  14. ↑ FAQ "Dev Bootcamp FAQ"
  15. ↑ FAQ "Dev Bootcamp FAQ"
  16. ↑ Jessica Stillman (May 17, 2012). "The Fast Track to Start-Up Life". 
  17. ↑ Ben Weitzenkorn (April 18, 2012). "Startup News: Dev Bootcamp, Incubator Deadlines, Closet Monsters From TV and Free Food". Betabeat. 
  18. ↑ Patrick Hoge (December 7, 2012). "Coder boot camp grads snapped up". San Francisco Business Times. 

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