U.S. CODING JOBS WILL INCREASE BY 17% OVER 20 YEARS...OVER TWICE THE AVERAGE GROWTH ACROSS ALL OCCUPATIONS (7%) 

BUT THE STATS DON'T ALWAYS ADD UP

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HISTORY

A NEW INDUSTRY

CODING BOOTCAMPS...FILLING IN THE GAP?

1679

1843

1972

1995

2014

Gottfried Leibniz designs modern binary code

The first "computer programmer," Ada Lovelace, devises a theoretical algorithm for use on an analytical machine

While working at Bell Labs, Dennis Ritchie invents C, the most widely used programming language ever created

James Gosling of Sun Microsystems creates Java, a language for building interactive computer programs

Demand for coders explodes, with 1,114,000 software development jobs in the U.S. alone.

In 2016, 91 coding bootcamps graduated 17,966 coders

Many claim job placement rates over 90%...

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Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Source: CourseReport 2016 Coding Bootcamp Market Size Study

CODING INTO THE FUTUREA G U I D E B Y T H E

N A T I O N A L C O N S U M E R S L E A G U E

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337,500

675,000

1,012,500

1,350,000

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