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college, but someone hit fast-forward and removed the parts about finding yourself.
means an intensive short-term training program that trades broad theory for job-ready skills in one narrow field, usually coding.
from named after military boot camp, the brutal short course that turns civilians into soldiers fast; the tech version borrowed the branding around the 2010s coding-school boom, promising to turn baristas into developers in twelve weeks flat.
origin decadeexploded post-2011 with app academy and hack reactor
pricing modelmany charge tuition only after you get hired
completion ratesoften lower than marketing materials suggest
employer opinionincreasingly split between impressed and skeptical