Well I meant more training faster than you get pursuing a CS degree, not more training overall. Besides, the job market has decided that differences between the two don’t matter as much as some people like to the think.

98% of app academy grads are making 100k. Point is you don’t need a CS degree to learn how to program. It’s not a 100,000 dollar process. 20 hours a week for 12 weeks primer, boot camp, job.

There are plenty of jobs out there, you just need to decide you want them. Anyone that would have made a competent programmer if they pursued a degree in college can decide today to pursue a CS job via a self teaching and then boot camp.

Side note: one of my friends that graduated from college is kind of salty since he says he was very well prepared for a grad school program on CS, but not actually building shit. The amount of theoretical stuff you learn (from his perspective) was over the top. Given that a couple of friends from high school went to a boot camp and ended up coming out with low 6 figure jobs, actually higher than his salary, I would have to say there is some truth to that, at least for some schools vs. some boot camps.