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what’s a bootcamp engineer?
I think it's a joke for the people who pay into those 6-month software engineering bootcamps.
Ehh, if someone can make more than me by doing a 6 month course, I say good for them.
Sure, I'm likely to have a deeper understanding with my 4 year degree, but like... the more that person gets paid, the easier it is for me to negotiate my own salary.
I'll never call for anyone to have their wage cut just to make myself feel smug. I see this all the time in the minimum wage "debate," and it drives me nuts.
The fact that most universities will graduate CS majors without ever teaching them how to use a debugger, build system, or version control system shows how useful they are to actual engineering work.
The problem isn't the CS curriculum, it's people getting a CS degree when what they (and employers) want is some kind of Software Engineering degree.
Computer Science teaches the foundational math and science of computation, and in that respect I found it to be very useful and informative. I don't really need to know how to use Visual Studio to prove the limit of K for some algorithm.
Besides, there are so many tools out there that we might as well just learn them on the job anyway.
I had recent cs grads in my bootcamp with me.