Ubiqum Code Academy

I came to this program with 1 year of experience in C++, albeit a year of experience that took place a decade ago. With that in mind, although I couldn't qualify as a pure beginner, I came into Ubiqum with no experience of front-end or back-end languages... Read More and only a faded concept of object oriented programming. That was three and a half months ago.

Today, Ubiqum has given me the foundations of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Java, along with a few modern frameworks. It's blisteringly fast paced and pretty much everything I could have hoped for. If you're confident that this is the kind of career path you want to take and willing to stare down the screen when problems arise (and they will) then the course is well worth the money. If not, however, it's a simple fact that the structure and lesson-free nature of the program will probably be demotivating. Members of my cohort certainly feel this way and all I can say is that what you're really paying for is a constructive learning environment, not a university degree.

In short, it's perfect for the kind of person who has started and enjoyed a lot of online tutorials, but never finished them, or carried on in the long term.

Here's a brief pro and con list, for good measure:

Pros:

-The tutors are honestly the best aspect of the course, and the ability to ask precise, detailed questions when encountering problems makes all the difference.
-Having a community of like-minded people, all in similar positions in their lives (mid-career changes, etc) makes the whole process feel much less daunting than learning alone at home.
-Putting in the hours, just like you would at a real workplace, also has the advantage of giving you confidence that you could actually integrate into a real office.
-Jost, the career advisor for the Berlin program, goes out of his way to find you opportunities and projects that suit your long-term goals. If you want to walk out of here with real world experience, he'll make it happen.

Cons:

-Although the tutors are the best part of the course, they're also still human, and there should be more than two per course. I mean this not only as a student, who would occasionally find that there was no one available to help for hours on end (this is particularly true on induction days for new cohorts), but for the tutors as well, who end up sharing three people's amount of work between two.
-Again, if you aren't someone who actively learns in their spare time, or is capable of picking up entirely new skills very quickly, it's possible that the course will be frustrating, if not outright overwhelming. You get to work from day one and it never slows down. For me, this was great, but if you fall behind once, it can feel difficult to ever catch up.
-Some of the course materials are out of date and effectively useless, which means that tutors need to adapt or create new projects. Their's is a heroic effort, but it suggests that those at the top aren't half as reactive as their employees. Everyone would benefit from faster, more decisive leadership.

As one of the best decisions I have taken in the last months to improve analytical skills I signed up to Ubiqum’s Data Analytics & Machine Learning course that provided superior capability of developing, analysing and implementing several tools and computational... Read More methods. The mentors, commercial and career advisor team delivered amazingly support as well as commitment to develop ourselves. For sure, I had an enjoyable and a life-changing journey in Ubiqum.

The “Learning by doing” is a quite different method, and at the beggining you can feel unsecure and a bit stressed. But after just a couple of months you can see yourself doing stuff that you didn’t even imagine.
You just need to be constant and openminded,... Read More and let your menthors guide you.

My experience in the Ubiqum Code Academy has been fruitful beyond what I honestly expected. Their teaching methodology, mainly based on learning-by-doing, allowed me a reasoned learn the latest data mining techniques required on the market. The preparation... Read More of mentors is excellent. They follow you and advise you on any technical or theoretical problem you may have. The environment is excellent, and allows you to learn even when chatting in front of a café during a break, with colleagues from the upper levels or other courses. In fact, teamwork is encouraged within the classes, formed by people with the most diverse experiences: seeing the same problem from different points of view from one's own, allows everyone to learn. One could almost say that one is part of a new and wide family, where everyone helps the other.
It is also a great place to get in touch with a lot of old and start-up companies, both during the course and in the final project.

I am Rushabh and I came to Barcelona for Bootcamp from India.i didnt had any kinda coding or statistics knowledge. Initially felt very much welcomed by the mentors and the colleagues... I will just get straight to Pros and Cons with Cons first.
My cohort... Read More for Data Analysis had 10 students, but then 3 dropped out for some reasons. Out of 7 left, only 2 were there who were really looking for good career opportunity after the course. rest 5 of us were either employed or self-employed.

Cons :
1. Mentors really stopped taking interest in our cohort because of the above reason... so basically, for 2 or 3 us, rest all had to suffer
2. Our Cohort Mentor joined Ubiqum in other City, and since our cohort didn't had any mentor, we struggled a lot with our final task.
3. The course is in R and they should seriously think of Python

Pros:
1. Good course resources
2. Learning by Doing Methodology seriously helps
3. Approaching mentors is very easy if stuck somewhere

Final Takeaway: Ubiqum is a good academy, but do research urself well and also clarify course details before u join. Administrative Crew is very good

My 3 month JavaScript course has just come to the end, and I look back on the days I started...it was a great decision to take this course.
At the first project in the first two weeks, we already completed a website, which made me confident as an HTML/... Read More CSS coder.
"Learning-by-doing" methodology really suited me rather than conventional lectures. Ubiqum mentors are always very helpful to solve my problems.
It's challenging, but worths it.

I have been at Ubiqum for over 2 months and absolutely enjoy it. The projects I have worked on so far have kept me on my feet and have made me think outside the box in regards as to how to build a code in order to proceed to the next step of the project.... Read More The instructors are very helpful and take their time to explain to you anything that you don’t understand.

Coming from a background of no experience to now feeling confident and able to create websites and apps is incredible. I had no idea how much I’d love it!
Pros:
Mentors and staff are very supportive and really great at guiding you as you are learning,... Read More especially because each student has plenty of one on one time with mentors. Not only are they focused on helping you understand how to improve your code, but ensuring that each student is capable to clearly explain their code as they would in a real world scenario. The agile working environment has been a clear way of understanding the curriculum and getting tasks done.
Cons:
Because it is a very hands on program, at times it can feel like you’re being thrown into the deep end. But once you ask for help or realize it’s simply a new skill and takes time to get comfortable in, it’s not as overwhelming.

Ubiqum has been a great experience for me so far. The mentors are very helpful and the help you get for job placement is amazing. We "Learn by Doing", this is a great way of learning how to code as it requires a lot of practice instead of just reading... Read More and having 5 hour lectures.

Ubiqum provides a deep dive into data analytics and machine learning. Be prepared to do a lot of self study as it is oriented towards "working life"-style learning instead of providing university classes. When you are motivated to learn, you will definitely... Read More learn a lot and grow quickly in this field.