Dev Bootcamp
| Dev Bootcamp | |
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| Location | |
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San Francisco, California, Chicago, Illinois, New York City, New York USA | |
| Information | |
| Type | Private |
| Established | 2012 |
| Founders | Shereef Bishay, Jesse Farmer, and Dave Hoover |
| President | Jonathan Stowe |
| Faculty | 40 |
| Number of students | 450 (per year) |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | DevBootcamp.com |
Dev Bootcamp is an immersive 19-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 additional locations in Chicago and New York City.[1] It was acquired by for-profit education company Kaplan, Inc in 2014.[5]
The program
The program is 9 weeks of remote work and then 9 weeks of intensive onsite training in professional web development, including Ruby on Rails, HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript.[6][7][8] A week of career training follows the 18 weeks of technical training.[9] The program takes students with little or no prior programming experience and teaches them the fundamentals of computer programming.[2][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.[2] According to Hoover, applicants to the 2013 Chicago programs had varied backgrounds, ranging from students who have master's degrees in computer science to a Starbucks barista.[2]
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 $13,950 in the New York and San Francisco locations, and $12,700 for the Chicago location 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.[2] Dev Bootcamp organizes hiring days for technology companies to interview students.[2] 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.[2]
In 2015, Dev Bootcamp tested a remote teaching model in a pilot program in Columbus, Ohio, which was canceled after the first round even though four of its 14 enrollees had already found jobs.[14]
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.[15]
Students are also required to remotely complete 9 weeks of preparation material before the on-location courses begin.[15]
Reception
After its founding in 2012, Dev Bootcamp was featured in The Chicago Tribune, Fast Company, Business Insider, TechCrunch, and Inc. Magazine.[7][8][2][16][17][18] According to the company, 95% of the individuals who had graduated from Dev Bootcamp San Francisco that year found jobs, with an average starting salary of more than $85,000.[2]
References
- 1 2 Empson, Rip (10 May 2012). "Startups Court Dev Bootcamp’s Ruby Grads: 88% Have Offers At Average Of $79K". Tech Crunch (AOL). Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Wailin Wong (December 3, 2012). "Dev Bootcamp coming to Chicago next spring". Chicago Tribune.
- ↑ Olanoff, Drew (31 March 2012). "Dev Bootcamp in San Francisco just increased the number of Ruby devs by 20". The Next Web. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ↑ Rowinski, Dan (10 May 2012). "Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks to Code and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup". Read Write Web. Wearable World. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ↑ Fain, Paul (2015-09-18). "General Assembly leads coding boot camps into the regulated side of higher education". Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
- ↑ E.B. Boyd (February 10, 2012). "A Hacker School That Helps Solve Silicon Valley's Hiring Problem". Fast Company.
- 1 2 Boonsri Dickinson (January 4, 2012). "Someday, Writing Code Could Be As Common As Farming Or Factory Work". Business Insider.
- 1 2 Michael Staton (December 3, 2012). "How Dev Bootcamp Is Transforming Education To Focus On "Extreme Employability"". TechCrunch.
- ↑ Alex Botsford (July 17, 2014). "What Happens After Dev Bootcamp Is Over? Enter Career Week.".
- ↑ Kyle Leishear (December 13, 2012). "Dev Bootcamp Producing Amazing Talents". Technorati.
- ↑ Fran Berkman (13 December 2012). "This Dev Bootcamp Will Make You More Hireable in 9 Weeks". Mashable. Retrieved 16 July 2015.
- ↑ About. Dev Bootcamp.
- ↑ J.D. Hildebrand (January 9, 2012). "A novel solution to the programmer education problem". Software Development Times.
- ↑ Ghose, Carrie (May 28, 2015). "Dev Bootcamp ends Columbus pilot despite 2Checkout, CoverMyMeds, Cardinal Solutions hiring grads". Columbus Business First. Retrieved 2015-09-29.
- 1 2 FAQ "Dev Bootcamp FAQ"
- ↑ Jessica Stillman (May 17, 2012). "The Fast Track to Start-Up Life".
- ↑ Ben Weitzenkorn (April 18, 2012). "Startup News: Dev Bootcamp, Incubator Deadlines, Closet Monsters From TV and Free Food". Betabeat.
- ↑ Patrick Hoge (December 7, 2012). "Coder boot camp grads snapped up". San Francisco Business Times.