You can be a junior developer in 8 - 12 weeks. It's not guaranteed, though.
I worked with a guy who came through a bootcamp. Before he did it, he'd learned enough PHP to build basic sites, so he didn't come in cold. In the bootcamp, he learned Rails, and proper development habits like TDD and source control. He was a good junior developer when he started, and with two or three years of work at Pivotal Labs under his belt, he's a good journeyman developer. He taught me a lot of what i know about iOS development!
However, he mentioned that a lot of other people who came through the bootcamp with him have gone on to work at quite low-skill 'chop shop' web agencies, where they're mostly slinging HTML and CSS to match a photoshop drawing, rather than doing real programming as such. So, it doesn't work for everyone.
I worked with a guy who came through a bootcamp. Before he did it, he'd learned enough PHP to build basic sites, so he didn't come in cold. In the bootcamp, he learned Rails, and proper development habits like TDD and source control. He was a good junior developer when he started, and with two or three years of work at Pivotal Labs under his belt, he's a good journeyman developer. He taught me a lot of what i know about iOS development!
However, he mentioned that a lot of other people who came through the bootcamp with him have gone on to work at quite low-skill 'chop shop' web agencies, where they're mostly slinging HTML and CSS to match a photoshop drawing, rather than doing real programming as such. So, it doesn't work for everyone.