Should I go through a coding bootcamp before going to college for a CS degree?

I think they can be used as tools for learning, debugging, and teaching yeah. They way I look at them though is as replacing "anything code related I would Google search and read in stack overflow/blog" and make that faster and automatic. These systems are not made to learn how to teach you personally something. Bootcamps are already pretty bad at teaching and have bad curriculums... you can't learn React in a day like some try to do. What people need is experienced support and guidance. For example, how to talk about things with industry engineers, job hunting strategy, face-to-face interview practice, and the human emotional support side. Those can't be replaced. Like most technological advances, the people who are really innovative, unique, and the best products in the industry tend to both survive, adapt, and often flourish. The people who are trying to squeeze very penny out of market inefficiencies do not. Like when cars were invented, Studebaker is a great example of a company that moved from horse carriages to luxury cars. I'm sure all the people trying to make a quick buck in horse carriages, or saddles, didn't make it an moved onto other industries.