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FWIW I would wager that a male would not have to inb4 pedantic arguments. Also that a male would not get so much criticism in regards to nit picky things.
But maybe it's just a common trait of detail oriented programmer types to be pedantic?
It depends. Do you prefer telecommuting or face to face interaction?
Technological globalization has created a situation where, excluding time zone differences, we could communicate in a way that is extremely similar to face to face contact.
Speaking from personal experience, a coding bootcamp might be a good opportunity for you, assuming it is cost effective. Through a coding bootcamp you will have the opportunity to network in regards to tech entrepreneurship and software in general, as well as developing a higher skill level, however you may be proficient enough already.
If I were you I would make a table of pros and cons, based on as many factors as I found to be very important, attribute weights with those factors and make a decision based on the results. Or you could flip a coin and see which side you want it to land on in mid air. That will give you a good idea of which one is more favored by your spinal cord at least.
I went to a coding boot camp in Omaha, Nebraska of all places.
Less than a month out of the school I was offered a job paying $55,000 a year salary at a large insurance company.
They primarily use Java and Groovy. The bootcamp taught Ruby on Rails. Maybe I got lucky, but I've found that the ability to code is slightly less important than one's ability to speak about programming/code in general.
If you can read and understand documentation, understand fundamental concepts like OO or functional paradigm, and understand what a stack is, a closure, recursion, the difference between an integer and a float, or a character and a string, methods/functions, etcetera, you are more or less hireable.
Basically you have to understand how a computer works, and the fundamental concepts in programming, as well as how to apply them.
However, you do need to have some sort of experience to put on a resume. For instance, if you go to a coding bootcamp you should be able to develop a simple REST API which sends a blob of json from a DB to a URL. That's a relatively complex task, but with a tool set like Ruby on Rails can be done in < week.
Essentially what I am doing at my job is more complex list processing and analysis. Just taking a bunch of data from a db, performing some operations to it, and spitting it back out. Basic stuff.
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