{"id":17135,"date":"2024-11-24T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17135"},"modified":"2024-11-24T10:25:53","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T10:25:53","slug":"do-coding-boot-camps-make-sense-in-an-a-i-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=17135","title":{"rendered":"Do Coding Boot Camps Make Sense in an A.I. World?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do? Keep learning, until further notice.<\/p>\n

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When Florencio Rendon was laid off from his third construction job in three years, he said, \u201cit was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back.\u201d<\/p>\n

He was 36, a father of two, and felt time was running out to find a career that would offer higher pay and more stability. \u201cI\u2019ve always been doing jobs that require physical labor,\u201d he remembers thinking. \u201cWhat if I start using my brain for once?\u201d<\/p>\n

An Army veteran, Mr. Rendon explored training programs he could fund using his military benefits. He landed on a coding boot camp.<\/p>\n

At first, the intensive courses seemed intimidating. Mr. Rendon had gotten his high school equivalency diploma before joining the Army, and he had taken some college courses, but he didn\u2019t consider himself book smart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Still, he thought about his children, who are now 4 and 2, and reasoned, \u201cIf I can make this work, then I should at least give it a try.\u201d<\/p>\n

His application to a course run by the company Fullstack Academy was accepted, and he started classes in April 2023, with a grant for military veterans that covered the $13,000 tuition. While the material was challenging, he was pleasantly surprised to learn he could get the hang of it, and four months later, he graduated from an online program that he completed from his home in the Bronx.<\/p>\n

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Coding boot camps once looked like the golden ticket to an economically secure future. But as that promise fades, what should you do? Keep learning, until further notice.When Florencio Rendon was laid off from his third construction job in three years, he said, \u201cit was the straw that broke the camel\u2019s back.\u201dHe was 36, a father of two, and felt time was running out to find a career that would offer higher pay and more stability. \u201cI\u2019ve always been doing jobs that require physical labor,\u201d he remembers thinking. \u201cWhat if I start using my brain for once?\u201dAn Army veteran, Mr. Rendon explored training programs he could fund using his military benefits. He landed on a coding boot camp.At first, the intensive courses seemed intimidating. Mr. Rendon had gotten his high school equivalency diploma before joining the Army, and he had taken some college courses, but he didn\u2019t consider himself book smart.Still, he thought about his children, who are now 4 and 2, and reasoned, \u201cIf I can make this work, then I should at least give it a try.\u201dHis application to a course run by the company Fullstack Academy was accepted, and he started classes in April 2023, with a grant for military veterans that covered the $13,000 tuition. While the material was challenging, he was pleasantly surprised to learn he could get the hang of it, and four months later, he graduated from an online program that he completed from his home in the Bronx.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17137,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17135"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17138,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17135\/revisions\/17138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}