I Recommend University Over Bootcamp

Anyone can learn how to program without any kind of "bootcamp" or an education at a 4 years university, but it is near impossible to learn computer science without a formal education.

Bootcamps are just wrong in my opinion, unless you are in it for the money from the current tech hype. I believe that most people need a formal education (working on problem sets, problem solving with algorithm paradigms, formally learn about NP-completeness) to do any kind of real software engineering, very few can do it by themselves without guidance.

I think the quality of these bootcamps varies wildly. I'm at Hack Reactor right now and we're doing far more than learning syntax...

No doubt a "real degree" can open doors, but I think I'll be able to find better jobs than half the CS grads from my college when I finish here at HR. This may say more about my college than HR, to be fair...