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Interesting. Thanks for pointing that out.
For accounting purposes, a firm is allowed to define a "quarter" as either a span of 3 months or else a span of 13 weeks. A "year" is then four quarters. ... Consequently, a firm that defines its quarters in terms of weeks needs to hold a 14-week quarter every four or five years. [1]
[1] http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2014/02/06/_14_week_quar...
It's great to see some hard data on this!
Were you able to see any patterns in the backgrounds of the bootcamp students?
It doesn't seem too surprising that someone with a physics or finance or mechanical engineering background can learn enough programming skills in three months to be productive. But do students without as much prior experience in quantitative and analytical thinking have as much success?
Dan Grossman's Programming Languages class on Coursera includes a good treatment of OOP in the later weeks.