I’d like to share my thought regarding the developers’ boot camps and help you answer the question: “should I sign up for a coding bootcamp?” from a camper perspective. According to all indications coding boot camps still seem to gain momentum. Though it’s not a new term worldwide, it was not until 2016 when the industry stopped being locally sterile. When new opportunities appeared in Cracow, I was a skeptic at first. I started self-studying by following the freecodecamp front-end path, accompanied by Pluralsight and Udemy video courses. Almost all of these are free or cost next to nothing compared to any boot camp. The price is one of the main no-go factors, but we’ll talk about it in a second.

There are many critical reviews, but most share the four common denominators: high price, the uniqueness of programming, the shallowness of knowledge and the notion that you can learn everything yourself. Let’s have a look at the four horsemen…