Coding bootcamps teach yesterday's tools because instructors can only teach what they already know. The speaker says graduates should hunt for gaps between their training and current industry practice, because those gaps are where the real opportunities are.
The key problem bootcamps seem is the key problem with all formal education, which is that teachers can only teach what they know, and what they know is based on what they've learned, and what they learned was at some prior point in time. And the longer ago they learn whatever it is they're teaching, the more out of sync it risks becoming with whatever is in the present day. Now, for some disciplines, this doesn't matter. Like if you're teaching differential calculus, it's hundreds of years old. If you're teaching physics, if you're teaching, you know, other things are more fundamental, if you're teaching 19th century Victorian literature, But if you're intending to teach current technology trends and things that people can apply into the world today, that distance can actually matter quite a lot, especially if the— you're in a field, as practically all technology is right now, that moves very quickly. So if you've been to boot camp and you've learned whatever you've learned, don't take it as gospel. Please look around, ask what is current, what is today, and what is different today versus what your teachers were experiencing, because those differences are more likely to be important than the similarities for discovering where there's opportunity for your career.
