Students who just do the minimum set of courses for a major would learn Python and Java. For those who take the web programming course, they'd learn JavaScript or they’d learn low-level assembly code ...

Lighthouse Labs, an operator of Canadian boot camps since 2013, surveyed graduates from 2013 to 2015, finding that, of the 135 survey respondents, 81 per cent still worked as software developers ...

Programming boot camps seem to make an impossible claim. Instead of spending four years in university, they say, you can learn how to be a software engineer in a three-month program.

In addition to Java, the course covers topics like data structures, SQL, GitHub and computer science algorithms. Alternatively, incoming students can opt for the part-time track, which takes 24 to ...

Landing a job with your new coding skills can pay off over time: Boot camp graduates earn $70,698 on average at their first job, which increases to $80,943 at their second job, per Course Report data.

There are at least 10 boot camps in Canada, and many of them have started publishing reports about how their graduates are faring. So far, the stats are promising, Furtado said.

According to Course Report, a boot camp review website, 79 percent of coding boot camp alums landed a job after completing their program. On top of that, graduates also saw a median 56 percent ...

Collectively, these boot camps expect to graduate 23,000 students this year, more than double the 10,333 students that graduated in 2015, according to Course Report, which says starting salaries ...

According to Course Report’s 2015 Bootcamp Market Size study, the coding boot camps throughout North America are expected to churn out 16,056 grads this year compared with 6,740 in 2014.