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Comment on Ask HN: Did you go to a 3 month coding school? Did it work?

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Are you just looking for a job in the industry, or switching careers? If this is a career switch I would strongly consider a bachelors degree in CS if possible--perhaps a little further down the line if it isn't feasible now. You'll learn a lot more and be exposed to stuff outside just front-end development.

Just realize that 3 months might be long enough to teach you how to take a boilerplate and slap some logic in it, but it will take much, much longer to really feel proficient at anything. I have a bachelors and have been a professional developer for almost 10 years and only now really feel the confidence of knowing how to tackle most problems that come my way. There's really no shortcut around the 10,000 hour rule, especially for software development.

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