thank you for your review. How much does it cost to rent a room/studio near the school?

The curriculum was fast-paced, and I definitely had to work to keep up. We started with HTML/CSS, then went through javascript, jQuery, a little bit of PHP/Wordpress, then we went on to Ruby and Rails, as well as covering associated technologies (git, command line, etc). It was a 6 month program, which is why we could start from scratch and work all the way to building a smallish app at the end. Given that I was in the first class, it was surprisingly well organised. I can only assume it’s getting better.

The job assistance was pretty well done. We had a little job fair at the end of the class where ~14 different companies came and we interviewed with all the ones that piqued our interest. I was hired by none of them, and getting increasingly worried that I didn’t have what it took to get a junior dev position. I talked to some mentors and they assured me I was fine, and it was mostly just timing (we graduated at the end of the year, which I guess is super busy for most companies). I kept scheduling interviews with new companies in town though, most of which were set up through the school. Finally I received a few job offers and accepted a position, I start Monday! I’m crazy excited.

These are all pretty specific to the bootcamp I attended though. The one thing that really surprised me was the amount of community involvement. We had local devs come in almost every day to give presentations or just hang out and help us with our coding questions.

I tried the self-study thing for a bit, and it wasn’t very effective, for me at least. Learning to code involves learning a new way of thinking, which for me was very frustrating. Seeing my peers having an equally hard time gave me a lot of confidence. Especially because most of the code youre exposed to is the final product, and I never saw the problems and struggles that every dev experiences. Also, a problem I had was not knowing when I actually ‘knew’ a technology. During my self-study I exposed myself to HTML and CSS but didn’t think I really knew them. After going through web design portion and not really learning anything new, I realized I already knew enough to build a site. It just never looked good, because I suck at design.

TLDR: I’m 100% happy I enrolled in the class. It was great for learning, networking, as well as job placement.

The curriculum was fast-paced, and I definitely had to work to keep up. We started with HTML/CSS, then went through javascript, jQuery, a little bit of PHP/Wordpress, then we went on to Ruby and Rails, as well as covering associated technologies (git, command line, etc). It was a 6 month program, which is why we could start from scratch and work all the way to building a smallish app at the end. Given that I was in the first class, it was surprisingly well organised. I can only assume it’s getting better.

The job assistance was pretty well done. We had a little job fair at the end of the class where ~14 different companies came and we interviewed with all the ones that piqued our interest. I was hired by none of them, and getting increasingly worried that I didn’t have what it took to get a junior dev position. I talked to some mentors and they assured me I was fine, and it was mostly just timing (we graduated at the end of the year, which I guess is super busy for most companies). I kept scheduling interviews with new companies in town though, most of which were set up through the school. Finally I received a few job offers and accepted a position, I start Monday! I’m crazy excited.

These are all pretty specific to the bootcamp I attended though. The one thing that really surprised me was the amount of community involvement. We had local devs come in almost every day to give presentations or just hang out and help us with our coding questions.

I tried the self-study thing for a bit, and it wasn’t very effective, for me at least. Learning to code involves learning a new way of thinking, which for me was very frustrating. Seeing my peers having an equally hard time gave me a lot of confidence. Especially because most of the code youre exposed to is the final product, and I never saw the problems and struggles that every dev experiences. Also, a problem I had was not knowing when I actually ‘knew’ a technology. During my self-study I exposed myself to HTML and CSS but didn’t think I really knew them. After going through web design portion and not really learning anything new, I realized I already knew enough to build a site. It just never looked good, because I suck at design.

TLDR: I’m 100% happy I enrolled in the class. It was great for learning, networking, as well as job placement.