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Not sure I'd agree, every CS student at my school had to take a class where one of the projects was implementing a mini version of git from scratch. And even before that class there was at least one lecture dedicated to git in the intro class.


In my experience, bootcamps and uni produce polar opposites. You either end up with devs who can do several practical things, but have no clue about fundamentals, or devs who know all the academic terms but have no idea how to apply them practically.


the only significant difference I've seen in brand-new devs from bootcamps vs CS programs is the devs from bootcamps are somewhat aware that they have a lot of learning to do


Not my experience. I found a lot of hubris in the few last batches of bootcamp devs I interviewed or worked with.




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