Coder Foundry

Coder Foundry is very much a web development bootcamp on the Microsoft stack and it's the real deal. At my cohort the absolute most time spent in "lecture" was about 40 minutes per week, but usually closer to twenty. Most weeks there was no lecture at... Read More all. This is absolutely nothing like school. All the experience we got was hands on. The immersive course starts from basic HTML and Javascript exercises then quickly moves into one or two sites in HTML and CSS. We did a small C# desktop application to learn C# before moving into full website development with ASP.NET, HTML/CSS templates, Entity Framework, C#'s MVC framework and backed by a SQL database. All the websites are cloud hosted. From then on you continue to build website after website until the end of the course. The sites take two to three weeks to build and you do everything yourself.

My instructor was phenomenal. Some of the instructors are CF graduates, but don't let that worry you. They're not just the best graduates from their cohort, they also have years of industry experience and are super qualified to be teaching.

I landed a job before the end of my cohort. Coder Foundry helps you build a stellar resume and helps you a lot with finding jobs. Every Monday there's practice interviews so by the time you're in real interviews you're going to be super prepared. With the portfolio you'll have built by the end and all the skills and experience you've acquired from building the websites from the ground up, companies will be eager to sweep you up.

You definitely get more than you put in. If you put in a lot of time, care, and effort into your projects you're going to come out as a very good developer.

I went into Coder Foundry wanting to get a bigger end-to-end picture of full-stack web development utilizing MVC (Microsoft's preferred design pattern), and they definitely delivered. In a relatively short 18 weeks I was able to touch on a much wider... Read More array than I expected, and the skills and experience gained were enough to give me confidence in obtaining three job offers within a week of graduation, and a fourth which was not available for a few months that they lined up for me and I'm now enjoying as it turns out it was the perfect and much-more-suitable job than what I found. The instructors do not leave any question unanswered, and are willing to help even outside of "business hours". Prior students and current students collaborate during - and even after, e.g. TODAY I had five (co-owner included) huddle around on Slack messaging to help me tackle a little-more sophisticated coding question I had at my current job ... what a blessing, and even my employer was impressed by them!

I like that the project assignments were real-world situations and each project was build upon the prior projects to solidify the learning. Concurrently, we were made to find the solutions through our own devices more and more with less and less spoon-feeding... Read More from the instructors. I learnt a lot in a short time under this regimen.

I did not consider their job placement services as very important to me when I came in. I was going to take charge of my own placement. But looking back now, I am very appreciative of it. Towards the end of the course when I should have started my own job search, well, I was swamped with trying to complete assignments and my portfolio. All the interviews I've gotten thus far have been through Coder Foundry's contacts. 1/3 of my class had job offers before we graduated, and another 1/3 had job offers the first week after graduation. I'm thankful they were working to place me when I was too busy to do it myself.

I attended the Master class in winter of 2016, with more emphasis on the 'beginner' part of advanced beginner. I was making a career switch from artist/educator/woodworker, and looking for job stability. The course was consistently challenging, and paced... Read More well to keep ramping up challenges without dumping you into the deep end. The one-on-one instructor relationship and collaboration with classmates is such a benefit! Their portfolio structure not only gives you something to show potential employers, but gives you the satisfaction of completing applications from the ground up. The requisites are specific enough that you know exactly what the goal is, but flexible enough to give you room to explore other concepts that interest you along the way.

CF's job preparation was invaluable, and resulted in much greater confidence once I was in the job search process. I got my current job (which I love) because of CF's job placement services - less than two weeks after finishing the program. Several coworkers have been surprised to hear that I've been coding for less than a year! CF not only gave me a strong foundation of knowledge, they taught me skills to keep learning and improving. Your future employer won't spoon feed you, and neither will CF. Great preparation for living the dream as a software engineer.

The teachers had no actual teaching experience. I was one of five people and I don't feel like I learned much. Our last project was given to us, with all of the code in tact because they didn't have time to teach it to us. I'm going to attend another... Read More coding school because I would still like to get into the profession.

I am going to cut to the chase and tell you what a great experience I had at Coder Foundry. My instructors were amazing. I never felt uncomfortable about asking a question or needing help with anything. Even later in the evening, on slack, my instructors... Read More were there to help with the smallest or largest problems.
The curriculum was fantastic. The program is set up to simulate an actual job with deliverables and weekly interviews where they asked you technical questions to test your knowledge and get you comfortable with job interviews. By the end of the boot camp I had 4 completed projects and the confidence to enter the employment search as a web developer.
I had a job offer within a few weeks. I recommend Coder Foundry, whether or not they have experience in the field, you will gain a wealth of knowledge and confidence.