Also called: Coding Mentor, TA
Helps adults in intensive coding programs get unstuck and finish projects.
Students message you all day with broken code; you guide them to the bug without just giving the answer, and review their final projects.
Estimate; often part-time.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Certificate, about 1 year after high school. Often a graduate of the bootcamp itself.
Ways in: Certification, Self-taught, On-the-job training. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Computer Science.
Shrinking. Bootcamp industry shrank sharply in 2023-25.
High risk for 10 years. AI coding tutors now get stuck students unstuck instantly, and bootcamps are shrinking, so TA jobs are vanishing.
Classes: AP Computer Science A, Speech.
Official data: O*NET occupation 25-3021.
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