It takes about 1,600 hours of coding to develop the skills you'll need to get an entry level software engineering job.
Most coding bootcamps try to jam all this into 3 or 4 months of intensive study. Free Code Camp is fully online, and there will always be other people at your skill level that you can pair program with, so you can learn at your own pace. Here are some example coding schedules:
Time budgeted --- Hours per week --- Weeks to completeIt's hard to not feel discouraged by this info. Three or four years of my current life seems very depressing. And I can't pretend I am even really doing 10 hours/week successfully.
Weekends --- 10 hours/week --- 160 weeks (36 months)
Nights and Weekends --- 20 hours/week --- 80 weeks (18 months)
Full time --- 40 hours/week --- 40 weeks (9 months)
Traditional Bootcamp Pacing --- 80 hours/week --- 20 weeks (5 months)
Also I must be amused by the use of the word "Traditional" in "Traditional Bootcamp."
Thanks DevChix for the link to freecodecamp.com though. It looks interesting.
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PS Reading the chat at freecodecamp led me to this similar site: "The Odin Project". Ruby on Rails. Free. But, clear macho (nerd-macho) theme. And, none of the fun little checkboxes that FreeCodeCamp has :)
