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u/EatuhFetus4Gzus wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

Just curious; why would they be under the radar? I also am unsure why them being chicago based would affect a curriculum, call it my own ignorance.. Enrollment #'s honestly hadn't crossed my mind, I asked a lot of questions but that one seemed to escape me, I like the way you th

u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
I have a THEORY, but this is just my person opinion/thoughts and not a fact. This sub tends to talk about the most expensive bootcamps (including former ones now closed), Launch School, Codesmith, Hack Reactor, App Academy, Lambda School, because these programs are so expensive that it's a huge commitment. When you spend $20K on a bootcamp you are also more included to self-justify that investment. You are also not paying for nothing, and those bootcamps could have more robust communities, more staff, more marketing dollars to pay for "reddit support", etc... The audience for these programs are people who are seriously committed, put in a lot of effort to choose a bootcamp, and want to make sure they are confident in the decision. The programs like Triple Ten, NuCamp, Springboard, Coding Temple are: 1) much cheaper, 2) focus on advertising to a large audience, a lot of them have 'X% off discounts' perpetually on the website if you join in some time window. The cost isn't nothing, but it's a much lower barrier so someone might try it out and see if programming is for them by enrolling rather than spending a lot of time thinking about the decision. They also might be using company-supported education credits to pay for them because the cost is lower and could be covered. So people in that second bucket are less likely to put in time and peruse Reddit and ones that randomly show up and post without reading or engaging tend to get shutdown quickly by the community and encouraged to 'search and read' first.