Nick Marucci's presentation at Big Sky Dev Con 2016 on the Emergence Of Code Schools

1. EMERGENCE
OF
CODE SHOOLSNICK MARUCCI
Montana Code School
Big Sky Dev Con 2016

2. THE ANNUAL REVIEW

3. WHY SHOULD WE HIRE BOOTCAMP
GRADS?➤ Why should we hire code school grads?
➤ What about the CS grads?
➤ They have no higher level understanding.
➤ Code school grads only have 3 months of experience after all.
➤ I’ll get back to this…

4. A LITTLE ABOUT ME
➤ NICK MARUCCI
➤ Lead Instructor - Montana Code School
➤ Student/Mentor/Teacher - DevMountain Code School
➤ Owner - Sol Innovations Ltd.
➤ Product Development Engineer - Parker Hannifin
➤ BSME - University at Buffalo
➤ Supply Chain Management - USMC
➤ Love the outdoors, climbing, painting, traveling

5. COST TO ATTEND
➤ Financial
➤ Time
Credit - LifeHacker - Carnegie Mellon University

6. EDUCATION VS. LEARNING
➤ EDUCATION
➤ High Level
➤ Theoretical
➤ We hear and see and ponder
➤ LEARNING
➤ Mid to Detail Level
➤ Understand hard skills
➤ We do and apply

7. ➤ I quit my job
➤ I had no income
➤ I was scared
➤ It was a leap of faith
➤ I learned A LOT of hard skills
➤ I built A LOT of functional apps
➤ I helped other students learn
➤ Now I teach students
MY EXPERIENCE

8. WHY SHOULD WE HIRE BOOTCAMP
GRADS?➤ Why should we hire code school grads?
➤ What about the CS grads?
➤ They have no higher level understanding.
➤ Code school grads only have 3 months of experience after all.

9. VALUE OF A BOOTCAMP GRAD
➤ Has the ability to learn quickly and want to learn
➤ Necessary in ever changing industry
➤ They are driven and engaged
➤ They can dig straight into the code upon arrival
➤ They have the ability to debug and can understand unit
testing
➤ Many are college educated (71%)
➤ https://www.coursereport.com/reports/2015-coding-bootcamp-job-placement-demographics-report#Table2

10. JOB PLACEMENT
➤ These grads are being hired at high placement rates.
➤ At formidable companies
➤ With solid full-stack coding skills
➤ And will have gained 3 years of experience before their college
bond peers have graduated
➤ https://www.coursereport.com/reports/2015-coding-bootcamp-job-placement-demographics-report#Table2

11. TECH GROWTH IN MONTANA
➤ As the local areas continue to grow, and Bozeman becomes a
tech hub, we will need skilled programmers.
➤ These bootcamps will allow for central access to well
developed and skilled programmers.
➤ Bootcamps are tending to a more diverse workforce.
➤ Grows the local community
➤ Bootcamps are a real thing and are becoming more prevalent.
➤ Let’s get on board in Montana.

12. THANK YOU
➤ QUESTIONS?