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I had zero programming knowledge (I’m an English major), but I wanted to break into the tech industry. Initially, I was skeptical that a 12-week course would give me the skills needed to land a job in the field. I’m happy to say that I got offers from... Read More three companies a few months after graduation.

I thought that at 35, I would be too old to learn how to code. Redwood Code Academy proved me wrong. Thanks to the well-structured program and great instructors, I learned full-stack web development and gained the confidence to put my skills into practice.... Read More I now feel like a full-fledged programmer.

Unlike most programming schools where they teach you, give you a project to complete, then leave you all alone to find a job, the instructors at Redwood Code Academy are very supportive. They teach more than coding. We also learn about Agile methodologies,... Read More project collaboration, and data structure. The Career Coding Fastlane team taught us how to navigate around the IT industry by helping us prepare our CVs and programming portfolios. They also helped us set up professional LinkedIn profiles to help us find jobs easily.

You may think 12 weeks is a very short time for a full-stack software development course, but it’s actually the right length. The teachers are all programmers with decades of industry experience, and they do a good job of explaining coding concepts and... Read More relating them to whatever is trending nowadays. I really appreciate the module on AWS. In fact, I am thinking about getting the AWS certification.

I was at a career crossroads last year. I had grown sick and tired of doing HR, but deep inside, I knew there were things that I could still fix in HR processes. After taking the full-stack course, I applied for a job in a Silicon Valley company that... Read More does recruitment software. My knowledge of SQL and C# helped me land the job easily.

"What I like most about Redwood Code Academy is that the lessons are easy to understand and are applied to real-life problems. While we get a solid foundation in programming theories, I find that it’s easy to relate them to real situations. For our final... Read More project, we helped develop an app for a startup that makes it easier for people to buy food online.

Before coming to Redwood Code Academy, I checked out different coding schools and asked for recommendations from friends who changed careers to software development. While they had mixed opinions about other coding academies, I only heard positive reviews... Read More for Redwood, which convinced me that this was the right place for me. The learning modules are easy to understand and were created for people who had very little programing experience.

I've tried learning how to code on my own through curriculums on freecodecamp and teamtreehouse but lacked the structure and discipline. That's when I decided that I was going to go to a bootcamp. I lived in Orange County at the time so I was looking... Read More for bootcamps in my area. I looked at several schools but I had a really great tour with Matt and that’s when I decided on Redwood. Matt was great, thorough and answered all of my questions.

I was job hunting , had a CS background but I had a long employment gap where I was not in the industry. I felt like my skills were stale and I needed get up to date on recent technologies. The curriculum at Redwood is great and got me where I needed... Read More to be. Thank you Redwood!