During the five-day class, instructors prepare students for the certification exams with detailed lessons and practice problems. An ideal candidate has at least about six months of experience with Visual Basic. They're going to have a better leg up if they've dealt with COM on the job. Mezick said the best candidates for his company's boot camp are professional developers, not necessarily VB developers, who are committed to life-long learning and are excited by the opportunities provided by software revisions. Whether or not boot camps will survive in the future remains to be seen though, as the latest edition of Visual Basic.
Net is more comprehensive than ever.
Some question if it is possible to teach the basics of .Net in a week's time. It's just not going to take. In fact, I don't even think pro developers are going to have an easy time with .Net. However, Franklin said it is possible as long as the instructor prioritizes, focusing on concepts and framework rather than rushing through every aspect of .Net. They need to talk about it, write the code, make mistakes and get their questions answered.