If you attended (or are thinking of attending) a bootcamp, did you have any prior professional programming experience?
I was talking to someone recently who mentioned that a non-trivial number of people in their bootcamp had already worked as a software engineer, QA engineer, data engineer, freelance (with paid active projects), internship, etc... and I wanted to get a sense of how common this was.
Seems like you all are looking at a wide variety of bootcamps and this group would be a good place to get a broad sample. I hope this is also useful for people with zero experience to gauge how many of their peers would already have had some!
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u/dowcet wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I think there is a of gray between yes and no here. An option like "very little" or "non-coding technical role" might be a popular one, and certainly fits my case. I wrote minor pieces of PowerShell to automate certain tasks in my previous role. It definitely was not something I
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I would say yes if it was related to your job, but good feedback, I can't change it now.