That's a bad bias you have. I could handle coredumps before I started CS. Also CS does not teach you efficient programming - that's a different course.
I'm actually generally in favor of boot camps since I myself have a self taught CS background with a civil engineering degree, and I actually know quite a lot of computer science. However, there's something to be said for the additional time in and critical thinking that you might get from a CS degree. However, some people on here seem to be indicating that their degree didn't made allowances for struggling through things or was "too academic" in nature.
It perplexes me that you could get through a 4 year degree without learning how to read a compiler error message though. I'd be less perplexed at this happening in a super condensed and streamlined boot camp though.
My experience: through the whole masters degree I had to write ~6 working programs. Only 2 were of non-trivial size. (a compiler and pseudo-physics stimulation) Some were group effort where someone else could easily pick up the debugging if needed. My 5 year degree definitely didn't care about debugging and I think people could do it with next to no programming skills.
