Programming Bootcamp Turns Lawyer Into Hacker

Felix Tsai was as far from a hacker as you could get. Tsai spent nine weeks studying at a mini-school in San Francisco whose only mission is to immerse you in things like the Ruby on Rails programming framework, the Git version control tool, and the Agile development methodology. "In a bootcamp model, you're only making one decision," says Dev BootCamp teacher Jesse Farmer. — Jesse Farmer Dev BootCamp was different -- and now he's an engineer at TapJoy, a mobile advertising company based in San Francisco. Dev BootCamp sessions run every three weeks with 16 students per group, at locations in both San Francisco and Chicago.