I wouldn't group boot camp graduates and self taught people together. I'm confident there's skilled people coming out of bootcamps, but the people I know personally saw it as a cheaper shortcut into the field because they couldn't teach themselves and would have otherwise gone to a university or chosen a different field.
Coding bootcamps weren't really around when I started, but I avoided online courses and traditional learning methods. I would have also avoided bootcamps for the same reasons. I wanted to create and solve problems that were exciting, rather than follow through a textbook and take tests.
I'm self-taught and learned C in my early teens because I really wanted to do something that I couldn't find any code or preexisting solutions for, and I knew C was really the best way (for me) to solve it. I didn't want to learn it but I wanted the cool thing more, so I struggled through forum browsing, reading documentation, and trial/error and successfully got what I wanted while gaining more skills that led to where I am today.
The desire and drive to learn something matters more than the method, in my opinion.
Coding bootcamps weren't really around when I started, but I avoided online courses and traditional learning methods. I would have also avoided bootcamps for the same reasons. I wanted to create and solve problems that were exciting, rather than follow through a textbook and take tests.
I'm self-taught and learned C in my early teens because I really wanted to do something that I couldn't find any code or preexisting solutions for, and I knew C was really the best way (for me) to solve it. I didn't want to learn it but I wanted the cool thing more, so I struggled through forum browsing, reading documentation, and trial/error and successfully got what I wanted while gaining more skills that led to where I am today.
The desire and drive to learn something matters more than the method, in my opinion.