Coding Bootcamps

Lambda School 's Misleading Promises - Coding Bootcamp. Vincent Woo New York Magazine Article

Nearly a decade later, the boot-camp boom is over. Unemployment has dropped, and the “skills gap” has come under fire as an explanation for labor-market slack, especially now that the labor market has tightened. Most large boot camps have been sold or shut down, as enthusiasm gave way to the sober economics of running a for-profit school. Most, except for Lambda School

There is some virtue, still, to Lambda’s mission. Technology and economic change has opened up new job opportunities, and many Americans are desperate to join an industry that promises a future. Coding boot camps offer a kind of solution for one moral conundrum of technology — can we build a future that doesn’t diminish the people who helped us get here? Not, it would seem, through Lambda School.