NDLI: Barriers Faced by Coding Bootcamp Students

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Ko, Andrew J. Thayer, Kyle
Abstract	Coding bootcamps are a new and understudied way of training new software developers. To learn about the barriers bootcamp students face, we interviewed twenty-six coding bootcamp students and analyzed the interviews using the Communities of Practice framework. We found that bootcamps can be part of an alternate path into the software industry and they provided a second chance for those who missed computing education opportunities earlier, particularly for women. While bootcamps represented a second chance, students entering the industry through bootcamps faced great personal costs and risks, often including significant time, money and effort spent before, during, and after their bootcamps. Though the coursework of bootcamps only ranged from three to six months, career change could take students a year or more, with some students even attending sections of multiple bootcamps.
Starting Page	245
Ending Page	253
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781450349680
DOI	10.1145/3105726.3106176
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2017-08-14
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Coding bootcamps Computer science education Career change Communities of practice
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Barriers Faced by Coding Bootcamp Students