Harvards introduction to CS?

I would take it gauge your interested before spending a ton of money on a bootcamp. You can't use it to get a job after. Completely going rogue here, unrelated analogy to the question entirely: One of the challenges with learning programming is that the growth is exponential and once you get there, you lose perspective. It's like skiing. A black diamond seems impossible and terrifying at first. But by the time you do them, they seem fine. And those blue runs that previously looked terrifying as well are so easy you don't even break a sweat The problem and confusion is that our words to describe things are flat. I've heard expert skiers say "oh that black diamond over there is an easy one to warm up today" or some beginner skiers say "getting down that steep blue will be the accomplishment of the day, it was so hard last time we fell constantly" All bootcamps (including Codesmith and the better bootcamps) are like the magic carpet ski school and you aren't even on the slopes yet and actually skiing!