App Academy

Prior to App Academy, I got a Computer Science Minor from college but I believed it didn't properly prepare me to excel in the industry. Because of this, I joined App Academy in order to learn more about current frameworks and to learn how to create good-looking... Read More websites and projects. For the first week or so you start off doing solo work learning fundamentals of ruby while after that is all about lectures in the morning and pair programming in the afternoon. If you decide to join App Academy, I would highly recommend making some friends within the first week of class because they would be a resource where you can bounce coding ideas and methods with each other.

I have finished the 16weeks bootcamps in a/A. It has really good curriculum, even though it could be little tough to finish everything in 16weeks, there are nice TAs who can help you out with keeping up good working strategies. Even after graduation,... Read More career coaches is there to help you out with getting jobs during job search.

App Academy's 16-week program was a very fast-paced Bootcamp. We learned a lot more than that I thought we would, including Javascript, React/ Redux, MERN, Rails, PostgreSQL, SQLite3, AWS, and Webpack. Overall it was a pretty positive experience. If you're... Read More looking to succeed, I connecting with peers as early as you can, it helps with the imposter syndrome. We had a lot of people drop out because they felt like they were behind, but everyone is more or less around the same level.

App Academy was great. I graduated with a CS degree, but in App Academy I learnt a lot of new programming languages and I built three different web-application which also helped me developed my resume. I spent a lot of extra hours for me to feel comfortable... Read More and finish up the projects. I would definitely recommend the program, just make sure you make friends and get a group of supporters together during the bootcamp.

Even if you're just slightly interested in getting into coding, App Academy does a great job of really introducing you to everything you need to be a full-stack developer. Not only that but their deferred payment model helps alleviate a lot of the financial... Read More burden that you would experience with other bootcamps, where you only start paying after you land your first job. There are some pros and cons here and there though: Pros- - Super supportive staff who really just want to see you succeed and make the bootcamp feel less pressuring - You get to meet a ton of new people here who are relatively in the same position as you or have the same interest - Instructors are also super lenient as long as you're forthcoming with your circumstances. While there are specific check-in times, if you've experienced an accident and don't have the time to, as long as you let them know ASAP they're really understanding about your situations. Cons- - There is a lot of content on the platform that needs to be updated/changed. Some of the modules we skipped over projects because they didn't want us doing them or typos in the curriculum

App Academy was quite the experience. It was a lot to take on, and at times didn't feel manageable. It took a lot of extra time for me to feel comfortable with everything. I put in a lot of extra hours and a lot of effort to keep up with everything. If... Read More you learn quickly and do well teaching yourself then this is the course for you. There were times later in the program where help from instructors was a little lacking, not only did it seem that they didn't have all the answers but that they didn't have the time to help either. It is a fast paced program so I think the problem lies in the fact that we are hungry and plentiful and there just isn't enough time for it all to be possible. I would definitely recommend the program, just make sure you make friends and get a group of supporters together during the bootcamp.

Before this Bootcamp, I was working in the food industry for 10 years and tried to change my career. The course is intense for sure but you get how much effort and time you put into the BootCamp. Whenever you will run into problems you don't understand,... Read More the main teacher and TAs definitely help you and walk through why and how it works altogether. If you think about taking the BootCamp when you think you are ready to take it, please don't. You'll never be ready for it. Just Do it! You'll learn as you make mistakes and ask questions. I hope this helps!!

I graduated last year with a CS degree, but knew absolutely nothing about actual engineering work. The first 3 weeks at a/A gave me more practical skills than my entire degree, and within a few months of graduation I was getting contacted by companies... Read More that I had never even applied to, including at least one FAANG company. What made the difference on my resume is not that I had a/A listed, but that I had actual projects with links to live websites and bullets talking about the technical details of what I worked on. That's honestly the biggest strength in this (or any) coding bootcamp. Yes, I learned a ton from the instructors, the lectures, the curriculum, and even from my classmates. But what I needed to land a job was real experience working on real projects using the technologies that companies are looking for. Whether or not you have any prior coding experience, you WILL come out of this bootcamp with at least 3 projects that you can call your own and discuss in-depth with potential employees. There's nothing more exciting than reading at a job description a week after graduation and realizing, "Wow, I know how to do all of that." My perspective is definitely skewed by the fact that I had a CS degree coming in. However, I can assure you that by the time we got to week 3, we were learning things way beyond what I was taught in college. And yet there were plenty of students around me with no coding background at all who were doing as good or better than I was. It's a very tough course. Expect that you will have to pour every ounce of yourself into it for 4 months straight, with the constant fear of failure hanging over your head. Make sure you are mentally (and physically) ready to handle that. But if you are, then you will do fine, and you will get a job afterwards.

The most important aspect of the bootcamp is the ISA (income share agreement) model, which aligns their financial interest with yours--you only pay tuition after you get a job (while acting in good faith). The bootcamp is designed to teach you from the... Read More ground up, so prior coding experience is not needed. However, this also means that the bootcamp will focus on breadth instead of depth of material and topics covered. The goal is to provide you with the bare minimum required to qualify for entry level positions. Actual job search success depends on individual effort, but there is continued support until you do so. For many, acquiring a job post-bootcamp will simply be a numbers game.

Before App Academy, I didn't know how to use a terminal. But after graduating from the 16-week online program, I learned how to build full-stack projects and debug codes to make the app live. You get what you put in so make sure you allocate at least... Read More 100 hours per week to study and work on projects. What I like most about App Academy though is how supportive the staff and TAs are. If you have any questions or you don't understand something, they would try their best to help you. The only downside about the curriculum is that it's outdated. If you want to learn the updated technologies, you would have to read the documentations on your own. Even then, you can't use it on your full-stack project so that's a bummer.