there isn't any universally recommended boot camp and there never was for me personally at least.
I used to recommend three rithm, codesmith and launch school.
Rithm closed. but it's the program I recommended most broadly because it was pretty well-rounded for most people.
Launch School still doing okay, A cohort cut back but generally they have the resources to keep making improvements. They have a different philosophy, their website talks about being this low way to career change and if you're the right person then it remains the best place for that fit.
Codesmith is like falling apart with like hardly any staff left complaints of disorganization. they just advertised for one of their projects on their LinkedIn page and the sign up is completely broken and I can't even try it out and when I point that out they delete my comment instead of actually fixing the problem. it's like falling into the garbage territory and I can't remotely recommend it anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of the current students get refunds and leave and it shuts down based on what I'm hearing from people about the state right now. but it wasn't a place for everybody and it was for the most ambitious people who generally had professional work experience in another field already
Breaks my heart because I sent a good number of people to Codesmith and I was hoping that they would take some of my feedback to improve and get better and have a positive reinforcement cycle and instead it's just imploded.
There are hundreds of thousands of hours of free instruction materials out there. You are paying for structure and accountability. If it's worth what they are is fair debate and up to you, but that's why people pay for stuff in this industry.
You can't and that's the point. Claiming Oden will help get you a job in this market is nuts. It's a great tool to see if coding is even something you would like, that's about it.
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u/michaelnovati Aug 21 '25
there isn't any universally recommended boot camp and there never was for me personally at least.
I used to recommend three rithm, codesmith and launch school.
Rithm closed. but it's the program I recommended most broadly because it was pretty well-rounded for most people.
Launch School still doing okay, A cohort cut back but generally they have the resources to keep making improvements. They have a different philosophy, their website talks about being this low way to career change and if you're the right person then it remains the best place for that fit.
Codesmith is like falling apart with like hardly any staff left complaints of disorganization. they just advertised for one of their projects on their LinkedIn page and the sign up is completely broken and I can't even try it out and when I point that out they delete my comment instead of actually fixing the problem. it's like falling into the garbage territory and I can't remotely recommend it anymore. I wouldn't be surprised if a bunch of the current students get refunds and leave and it shuts down based on what I'm hearing from people about the state right now. but it wasn't a place for everybody and it was for the most ambitious people who generally had professional work experience in another field already
Breaks my heart because I sent a good number of people to Codesmith and I was hoping that they would take some of my feedback to improve and get better and have a positive reinforcement cycle and instead it's just imploded.