When I started this tech journey. I had never did coding in my life before. To tell the truth I didn't even know what was coding was really was. But dev Code Camp took me as a none coder to someone that know how to code. The instructors was very help when helping me. I took their flex full stack program. So it was much harder for me to get going since I never done it before. But the instructors took their time and help me understand the problems that I was having.

GA's Data Science Immersive 12-week virtual course was the best decision I've ever made. I had wanted to switch into DS/ML for 5 years before but couldn't ever manage to study regularly. Within the first two weeks of the 12-week course, we got through everything I had struggled to learn for 5 years. It forced me to actually learn 40 hours per week in class and then another 15-20 hours per week studying and doing projects/homework. It was the hardest I've ever worked and I had a few really low moments when some concepts wouldn't click, but I had so much damn fun the entire time. I loved every minute of this bootcamp. As for financing, I chose the Climb loan option, as it was less money paid back in the long run than the ISA and I knew I'd be able to make the payments for at least the first year. No doubt luck played a HUGE part in me landing a job so soon after graduation, but it wouldn't have been possible to make use of that luck without this class. Huge thanks to GA, the instructors, the TAs, and the career coaches.

Coding Temple is a fantastic, immersive, and very personal experience! The student-to-instructor ratio is amazing at about 6-to-1. Each day was filled with many hours of learning new technologies and actual coding experience with challenging homework each night and full-fledged weekend projects too. The instructors were truly committed and have wonderful technical and people skills. Also, Coding Temple graduates become part of the active alumni community and the training and job seeking assistance continues for life---all included in the original course fee! I highly recommend Coding Temple to anyone who is interested in pursuing a bootcamp training experience.

It is a great platform to learn and become a data analyst.It provides us one on one mentorship and also career coaches to help throughout the course.I gives us opportunity to learn and apply new skills to the job.

If you are considering becoming a software developer and have the funds to do a bootcamp its the fastest path to success. TLDR: - All of the info is online for free - You ALWAYS pay for other people's time and knowledge - Hack Reactor @ Galvanize is the most bang for your buck ( if you quality for the ISA or can afford the tuition in full) - There is more to being a software engineer than knowing how to code. So I'll start with the elephant in the room. Yes, all the info taught at HR or any bootcamp is online for free. The curation, staff, accountability, and structure do not. You are paying for support, the experience and time of the staff to mentor/tutor/coach you, and a proven path of success. You can not cover as much ground, leverage the experience of others, and network to the degree you will during this bootcamp in the same amount of time on your own in a 6 -12 month period. Secondly, not all bootcamps are created OR perceived equally. Nor do you leave them all with access to a community or the knowledge that can get you hired. When looking at the financed option (ISA) or even the paid in full/installment plan I think there is no better option than HackReactor @ Galvanize. Alumni placement at FAANG level is top tier and the name alone can get you conversations at large number of other top tier companies. The alumni access is probably the best I've seen or heard of (although it is seldom discussed as a selling point), the community is helpful, informed, and have had the kind of success you're looking to obtain and they are willing and able to help you succeed. The program itself prepares you for the kind of work you will do, but also the kind of person you will need to be in order to be successful in the tech industry. Another aspect of this program that is seldom talked about is the behavioral component to the job search as well as being employed. There is a strong emphasis on being hireable, not just able to code, which I think is a critical piece to ensuring your success.

Flex program processed my dismissal because i needed more time to finish my coursework. So maybe they should not call themselves flex program.

This company takes advantage and discriminates against individuals with disabilities. I repeatedly asked my advisor for accommodations whenever we met, and constantly got told "I don't know if we can, but I'll look into it" and then she never looked into it, and it became a repeating cycle of me asking about the possibility of accommodations for my ADHD, PTSD, and generalized learning disability. The staff also repeatedly provoked me as a student into a panic attack, to then they want to call me unprofessional!?!? It's unprofessional to provoke a disabled student into a panic attack! And when I reported these things to the BBB, Thinkful has the audacity to gaslight me and (1) say that my final project had consistent scores from one assessment to another which is laughably untrue, (2) that I wasn't provoked into an outburst as the result of panic attack started by what their staff members did, and (3) that I should've submitted a form for accommodations when that form didn't exist at the time I attended. Stay away from this school. They only care about money and they don't care if they take it from disabled individuals who literally need every dime they earn to afford their rising healthcare costs. I have no desire to pay back into an ISA from a company that has repeatedly traumatized me with microaggressions about my disability by way of gaslighting me about my own experiences.

How can I begin to describe Turing. It was the place that helped me turn my life around, feel validated in my life experience through community and education, and truly prepared me for life as a dev the best that they could. Some general information, I was in the backend program (versus the frontend program). Most students in my cohort started work 3-6 months after their job hunt started, but this is different per person and also, a little bit, defined by the job market of the time. My timeline: Introductory mod was in May '20, with my official start June '20. I started my job hunt (part time) in Oct '20, graduated in Jan '21, and was now able to dedicate full time to job hunt, then started work March '21. Turing is a 6 month program, really 7 months. Each section/"semester" is called a Mod. It is broken down into an intro Mod, and then 4 main mods, and an additional 5th Mod that is there to help you develop professionally while on the job hunt (the Job Mod) Mod 0 helps you prepare for the full breadth of the coursework, they help you learn some basic coding and language basics, they help you learn how to learn, and they help you get organized and determine what self-care and support looks like. The addition of this program, in my eyes, was a smart move and really helped folks prepare for their best selves. This way you can start Mod 1 hitting the ground running. Mod 1 consists of learning Ruby and paradigms such as Inheritance and Modules, OOP, TDD and testing with Minitest and similar, whiteboarding and pseudocoding techniques, SRP and DRY principles, Pry and debugging techniques, Git and Github, remote collaboration (Zoom and other screen sharing), collaborative coding and chunking techniques, code reviewing and Pull Requests, terminal and command line interface, technical documentation, edge cases and validation, and mocking and stubbing. In this mod, we completed 4 official projects increasing in complexity and had various timed assessments that mimicked algorithm and OOP style coding challenges. Mod 2 we focused on Rails development, CRUD, MVC, routing, rails console, inheritance vs POROs, rails views with erb and templates, ActiveRecord and query best practices, relational databases and best practices, SQL and Postgres, diagramming and designing databases, ORMs, migrations, RSpec testing and Capybara and ShouldMatchers, RESTful practices, HTTP request/response cycle, HTTP status codes, URLs, Deployment (Heroku), Project Management using GitHub Projects, web APIs, API consumption and creation, Flash for error/success handling, Faraday for external API consumption, WebMock, HTML/CSS, CSS grids, DNS, database normalization. In this mod, we also completed 4 official projects increasing in complexity and had various timed assessments that mimicked algorithm and API/DB-query style challenges. In Mod 3, we focused on getting to mastery with web applications. We focused on agile processed, integrating third party APIs, building more complex APIs, and consuming and processing complex data (going beyond CRUD). We utilized Service oriented architecture. We also focused on performance improvements such as caching and memoization. We cross-trained in the frontend and worked with Javascript and JQuery while traversing the DOM. We had advanced lessons in OOP, APIs, and Testing, learning abstraction, encapsulation, API security, and testing API exposure and consumption. With project management, we organized our work by features we could communicate deadlines or pushbacks to "product owners", we could document our work, we could translate acceptance criteria into ticketable work, we could dive into more complex PR reviews and feedback loops, and we could build off legacy code to modify and debug existing code. Self-learning become a bigger focus and we moved further away from traditional classes and more into "how do I synthesize this information on my own and when do I loop in others for support?". We could use serializers, format json responses, authenticate and authorize. We used additional Rails spaces such as ActionMailer to send emails. We worked through advanced ActiveRecord/SQL queries to analyze and modify information. We worked through caching strategies, background worker scenarios, indexing to prevent slow queries, and breaking down N+1 queries. In this mod, we also completed 4 official projects increasing in complexity, including a unique project where we build a green-code software that students creatively decide upon, and had various timed assessments that mimicked algorithm and complex API style challenges. The final official mod focused on working with our counterparts (the frontend students) while developing our careers and job hunt portfolio. Technically, we learned project determination, MVP feature decisions, technical documentation, architecture decisions, project creation (ticket writing), agile, waterfall, advanced git techniques including rebase, computer science foundations for interviews, linked lists, big o, arrays, stacks, queues, and recursion. This mod had unique projects and assessments and we approached graduation. This was our first jump into true legacy code (previous legacy code was more project/learning aligned) and added features to a clone of an online clothing retailer. This work was done in Javascript, NodeJS, and GraphQL, and required all students to jump into a codebase and tech stack that was mostly new to us. We also had a Capstone project that we were allowed to creatively design as if we were a startup company and we made our own decisions on tech stack, motivated to use new stacks to challenge ourself. Assessments continued to develop skills that are useful during the technical portion of interviews. Mod 5, or the Job Mod, helped us organize our job hunt and day-to-day activities, gave us accountability groups, brought in alums and companies to talk to us, had check ins with the amazing career team, and so much more.

Attending App Academy was one of the biggest leaps I've ever made in my early career. Coming from a non-computer science background, the pace of learning and the volume of information I had to retain was a real challenge. Nonetheless, it prepared me for real-world environments. Come post-graduation/job search, everyone has been very supportive. 2022 has not been an easy year for job seekers but my coach and other peers were there to continue challenging and providing me with the tools that enabled me to land my first software engineering job and finally switch careers.

I really enjoy the year I had as a student, the instructors were awesome for the most part and really enjoyed working with the staff. My first placement advisor was great, then they randomly terminated her, then my second one was great, then she ended up getting a new job so then I got a new one who basically hasn't helped me find a job in 5/6 months and last time I spoke to her she basically said your on your own and I don't know how to help you, keep in mind all of the Kenzie Staff makes money off of the students and they make even more off of you when you have an ISA since the ISA cost is like double the price then if you would just pay the price outright. I understand that it's hard to find a job in tech but having 0 interest in helping people who you get paid to help is not right at all.

This course alone is enough to learn the QA tools. They kept me motivated and engaged throughout the course and were always available to answer my questions. Not only did they explain the theory, they also gave practical lectures that helped me develop my skills and understanding of the field. Thanks to their support and guidance, I am now confident in my abilities and ready to pursue a career in QA engineering. I highly recommend Techpro Education to anyone looking for a quality learning experience in this field. The teachers are very good, they explain the subject very well, they answer the questions one by one, they deal with each student individually. TechPro-Education actually has a training system for me that I would like to have, instant problem solving is absolutely incredible. In summary, good luck at TechPro-Education.

Note: I was a part-time Full-Stack Software Developer student. I came into this bootcamp with absolutely no background in coding/programming. I had been pursuing a complete different path, and decided that a bootcamp would help me pivot into the tech/programming industry. The beginning of the course teaches the basics: what is programming, computer science, and a brief overview of the different languages you will be learning. The start of the course was slow an steady, but by the end, it was much more fast-paced, but doable. It took me a while to get my bearings and "think like a programmer", and by the end, I can say that I have the tools I need to keep learning and doing more projects. I found the assigned projects were really helpful in better understanding the concepts of a certain language, but the Live Projects were definitely the most helpful overall, especially if you do well learning on your own. The Full-Stack Software Developer program, I think, was the best option for me. I had considered that vs the Python course, but because of my complete lack of knowledge for this world/industry, I felt I had to be more thorough. I think things finally clicked for me during the C# Live Project, and everything I had learned really finally came together. Overall, if you need a basic understanding and some practice in some of the basic programming languages, I would recommend this program. However, if you are not a great self-starter, you may want a more rigorous program, because you will need to take the time to practice the concepts and languages to really feel better about it. The instructors do have good suggestions, and there are optional assignments, but like every discipline, practicing on your own will be key to sharpening those skills.

Going into CodingDojo I was skeptical of the program. The program was broken into 4 sections, Web Fundamentals, Python, JavaScript, then the choice of Java or C#. Web Fun is a short 2 week introductory course focusing on the basics of HTML, and CSS. Python throws you into the deep end with your first full stack course. This is the most difficult stack in the course. You will first learn about MVC, Agile Methodologies, Frameworks, Libraries, and more in this stack while using Python and Flask. Due to the introduction of so many new topics it can be hard to grasp. Moving onto Java Script it is much easier. You will be building single page applications using React however since you already understand similar concepts from Python it comes much easier. Lastly I took Java. Java was a similar experience to JavaScript, however you will build a application using Spring Boot. Most work throughout the course is done in VSCode however Java required Spring Tools Suite. STS feels like an aged program and can be difficult to work with.

Best decision ever! Great instructors, clear documentation.

I am grateful to have been granted admission into the Sales Development Fellowship at SV Academy. Through the comprehensive coursework and invaluable hands-on experience to prepare me for my role as a Sales Development Representative or Business Develop Representative, I can be an asset to a Tech Sales Team.

I attended this course in person but the learning interface is excellent so I am sure it would be great on-line also. Excellent tutor, really well organised and you come away with a great grounding in UX Design, covering all aspects of UX Design and much more. The insights from the tutor who is a UX Professional was brilliant. There is a steep learning curve but it is really worth it as you learn so much. You complete a project through to developing a prototype, learning along the way. You have access to the full course content on completion for six months and you can become part of the BrainStation Community once you have received your Certificate. I highly recommend this course.

This bootcamp is not easy and they make that very clear from the beginning and also make their minimum requirements and expectations as clear as possible to try to give everyone the full understanding that a lot of work is required; unfortunately, a lot of people still seem to underestimate it and try to skate by on the bare minimums and then get angry when they fail. It is not easy! I went in with basic HTML/CSS knowledge and a little bit of JavaScript but not much of anything else but I put in a lot of time and energy and managed to graduate and get a job. You have to study a lot and the curriculum is good but you also have to figure out how to adapt to your own learning style and this seemed to be where a lot of people struggled. Yes, they are giving you lessons and information but it is provided in one way for everyone; instructors offer the extra piece to make it more personalized but if you can't ask for help or tell them what you need to help you learn then it will be more difficult for you to understand everything and will take a lot more effort, energy, and time. The curriculum is generally pretty good, there are definitely some places that a bit of fine tuning would be helpful but, overall, I feel that it covered things well and also points you in the direction of a lot of supplemental material that can help you if you need more information. When job searching, I found that the topics we covered were very relevant and current so I didn't feel too limited in what I could apply for. Additionally, being part of a real project and building a full, useable product was incredibly helpful and definitely puts this program ahead of many others. Generally, the instructors are good and genuinely want to see everyone succeed. There are some that might be great programmers but maybe aren't as good at teaching but I found that as I got to know each instructor and their style I was able to more clearly communicate what I needed and they did their best to help. Job support was pretty good but, as with everything in this program, you get out what you put in. They encourage a lot of alumni involvement and have a lot of job boards, discussions, extra training classes, practice for interviews and options for tons of stuff but you have to sign up and be involved. Overall, I am really glad I did this program; there were moments I was frustrated and almost quit but I am glad I continued to the very end and really appreciate the experience and I will continue to be involved as an alumni.