âMany of the rules at the state level do make sense.â. General Assembly is on target to have more than 20,000 alumni by the end of the year. Thatâs up from 5,000 at the end of 2013. Simon said General Assembly, which was founded in 2011, currently enrolls roughly 60 percent of all students in the boot camp sector. Peter Barth is CEO and founder of the Iron Yard, a coding academy with campuses in 19 cities, mostly in the southeast.