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Anyone did a bootcamp during summer while completing their Cs bachelor’s degree?

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u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Tangent: this is timely, but you should apply to this if eligible: [https://formation.dev/partners/netflix](https://formation.dev/partners/netflix) (disclosure, co-founder of Formation), but you should not apply to Formation otherwise if you are still in school - this is a special program for Netflix. The best thing you can do is to get an internship this summer. If you can't get an internship, then volunteer for Hack4LA or for a professor. If you can't volunteer, make a "startup" and build that all summer super disciplined and try to find others doing that to join with, like Coding for Callie, 100Devs community, etc.... Codesmith is more for people who are almost job ready to brand and market themselves for the job hunt, it's not really a strong learning experience itself in my opinion (I can go into why, but it's 6 weeks of curriculum, almost all instructors went to Codesmith itself and don't have industry SWE experience). Depending on which college you are going to this might be better than the instruction you are getting there, and if that's the case maybe consider it. If you can't do any of the above and you have no discipline or motivation to do a project all summer yourself, then I would consider Codesmith for that purpose. Like you spend 3-4 weeks on a project that is at the level of a group project you would do in a one course in one semester of CS. It could possibly be worth it if you have absolutely no good projects from school to put on your resume, but you're paying $22K for that and that's your call.