I will preface this post by saying that it’s not about quantifying the education of those that already went through coding bootcamps, but is rather a point of view (i.e. opinion) for those that are considering whether they need to sign up and pay for bootcamps that will teach them how to write software. With resources such as Coursera, Udacity, MIT OpenCourseWare, Microsoft Learn and even YouTube coupled with the ability to use a search engine to look for ways to solve problems (e.g. “How to sort arrays in <language>”) you can get pretty far. With resources such as Coursera, Udacity, MIT OpenCourseWare, Microsoft Learn and even YouTube coupled with the ability to use a search engine to look for ways to solve problems (e.g. “How to sort arrays in <language>”) you can get pretty far.