Annoyed with myself! Should I be?

[SlugLife]

That is not a boot camp style class. What I described was the standard basic open water class for most training until the for profit business model style started replacing skills and education based training.

Communication is hard sometimes.

In computer science and a few other fields, a "bootcamp" refers to a longer and more focused course, designed to create significant progress in a short amount of time. I didn't mean military bootcamp. I should have used another word.

I wish the kind of courses you describe were more common, because the short courses are both expensive for students, and not very profitable for teachers.