We Got Coders

This course was really fantastic. As a female in my late 30s, I wasn't keen on a frat-house environment. And given my learning style, I respond best to small classes and personalised tuition. I wasn't disappointed on either front. The mansion is beautiful... Read More and quiet and our chef created delicious meals. It meant that we were able to wholly focus on consuming the large amount of course work. Most days I was doing 12 - 14 hours coding and loving it!

The two instructors clearly cared about our progress and were determined to show us how to be exceptional developers. They made themselves available when I needed help, even if that meant evenings and weekends. I valued their perspectives given they have an excess of 30 years development experience between them. They were very different to each other and that meant that we learned alternative viewpoints and styles, all within the framework of well organised content.

I enjoyed the mix of working on my own and working in pairs / teams. I learnt a lot from the other delegates and have formed life-long friendships with many of them.

For someone who was basically a beginner coder when I started, I found this a safe and positive learning environment. As a business owner and entrepreneur it gives me great satisfaction to know that I can now confidently create well tested, well written code and I am working on some MVP's as we speak.

Highly recommend.

I really recommend this course if you are looking to properly learn and have a great start in the web development industry. Overall, you need to be prepared to work hard and interact with other peers during the course. The interaction part is very important,... Read More not only because you can learn new software development techniques such as pair programming, but also because you will work better in a team, discussing diverse approaches.
The course is intensive and well organized, every week you learn lots of new concepts and have interesting projects to work on. Also the size of the classes are perfect. In this way you can be offered an individual tutoring and feedback.
My favorite part of the course was the group project, since it is a great preparation for your first web development job and also for your final project.
If you are determined to change your career or get practical experience using good practices in web development, this is definitely the course you should go for.

I was in the January 2015 cohort of WeGotCoders. Working for years as a linguist, I joined the course with the aim to make a career change and enter the web development industry. It proved to be the right choice. One year and a half later I have a full... Read More time job as a web developer and I plan to keep progressing in this field.

The course was really intensive and sometimes hard to keep up with. People interested in the course shall be prepared to fully commit for these three months and focus solely on learning how to code. However, it definitely pays off! The curriculum comprises of all the necessary knowledge that a junior to mid-level developer needs so as to score a good job. 

Dan, the instructor, was very helpful, always there when the trainees needed him. He used to urge trainees to experiment with code, cooperate with each other, exchanging knowledge and opinions and, in the end of the day, coming up with a solution for every coding challenge. This process simulates the way that a real development team works and that is what makes this course so unique among all the others.

I also had the chance to live in the residential house which helped me a lot to focus on the course. Not having to commute every day, having things like every day food being taken care of, proved to be very beneficial and time saving. Thus, I had more time to sharpen my problem solving and coding skills.

The final week’s presentation resulted in me getting placed to a job only a week after the course ended. So, it goes without saying, that I would highly recommend the course to anyone interested in web development.

I would like to start this review by saying that We Got Coders is not just another web development course but an idea. Dan Garland, the founder and the lead instructor of We Got Coders has finally bridged the gap between developers with a theoretical... Read More background and today’s market requirements, by providing them with hands-on experience on the best practices of Agile Web Development.

During the course we were able to immerse in the ins and outs of web development by doing pair programming on cutting edge technologies and popular frameworks such as Ruby on Rails and Backbone.js.

The pace of the course is really fast and the expectation for all trainees is to accomplish at least 80% of the assignments which means that a prospect candidate should devote himself 100% on the course and the material to be taught.

The idea behind this is not only to evaluate the suitability of the trainee to be able to cope with the demands of today's industry, but also to make sure that he understands what he is doing, as this is a prerequisite for a successful career as a software engineer.

As far as the structure of the course is concerned, it consists of 2 phases, the training phase and the mentoring phase.

During the training phase, we were taught the best practices in today’s industries and, most importantly, through the retrospective of a senior developer and the approach of how we can do things better than we are currently doing.

This includes test driven development, user stories, responsive and pixel perfect design, as well as learning to tackle tasks effectively by breaking them into smaller chunks.

During the mentoring phase, we had the chance and the honour to work as consultants with leading startups who take web development seriously and they would only hire top developers in the market. Alongside our instructor and mentor we were able to implement new features and performance refactoring into their codebases that we are proud of.

The last fact made us more empowered as developers as our clients were pleased by our overall performance which led into full time employment by the end of the course.

Today we are able to accomplish any given task that we are assigned to and perform over the expectations of a junior web developer which makes a We Got Coders alumnus more of a mid-level developer. This is quite impressive considering the amount of time that we spent during our training.

Therefore, my only advise to those who are looking to get into the web development industry and are determined to accomplish their goals, is to have a look at this course as I am sure that they will not get disappointed.

I was in the January 2016 cohort and it was one of the best experiences of my life. 12 weeks of intense web development, we worked hard and we played hard and we all emerged as web developers ready to work in the real world. I'm writing this review as... Read More a full time employed web developer in London, this program works!

Being able to live in a mansion during the course is not just amazing but highly recommended, as I genuinely believe that being completely immersed with highly enthusiastic developers is a great motivator and pushes you to do better.

The mentors were amazing, both with many years of experience in the industry and both highly vested in your success.

If you're serious about becoming a web developer then this is the best way of starting.

I became interested in web development after I quit my job as a session guitarist. After checking out a few bootcamps online I settled on We Got Coders as they seemed to be offering so much more than anyone else.
I came to the course with no technical... Read More background and only a very basic knowledge of ruby and html, but within a few weeks I was able to keep up with the more experienced people, thanks to the intensity and the amount of material we covered. At the end of the course students have two weeks to build an app of their own choosing from scratch, and present it for select group of industry professionals. I ended up getting hired on the spot and send straight into a development job in London.
I would highly recommend this course to anyone who's serious about becoming a web developer. The accommodation is amazing, how often do you get to live in a country mansion with a professional chef cooking for you? The 3 month mentoring phase that comes after the course, is really valuable and not something that many other places offer. And most importantly the tuition is great. Dan and Loren are both highly experienced developers, they make sure everyone is keeping up, and they were on hand most evenings and weekends.

TL;DR Brilliant course, best in the country in my opinion. Definitely will result in a job if you work hard.

This course is about seriously learning to become a web developer. Be prepared to spend most of every day, all day, studying code in a relaxed,... Read More fun and friendly environment. While it remains focused on teaching, learning and code, it does this in a way which is relaxed and non pressured. There is great support, and the mentor is live in as well so he is available pretty much all day every day. Of course, he has his free time as well, but he is available much much more than a regular tutor would be.
When I was on the course we spent most days coding from 9am till 10pm. This changes depending on how interested you are in the topic being covered that week. The curriculum is very varied so you are exposed to a lot of different areas of web development throughout the 3 months.
If you focus, knuckle down, take an interest and work hard you can come out of this course a gleaming pristine example of a professional web developer.
Being prepared for this course is also very important. I would say you should take minimum 3 months of self study to be properly prepared. The more prepared you are the more you will get out of the course.

The course itself, and it's tutors are very helpful to prospective students so if you want to know what materials to use to prepare then just send an email to the company.
Pros:
- They actually do help you to get a job at the end by organising interviews for job positions.
- The topics the course covers are the most relevant to working in web development.
- The technologies the course teaches you to use are the most up to date, and recent available. For example ReactJS, Mocha, Chai and RSpec.
- The live in environment allows you to study as much as you want.

Cons
- Must be prepared to spend 3 months studying.

But seriously, this course will change your life. It changed mine.

I had recently graduated university with a degree in Computer Science and was looking for some practical experience in Web Development. I found this course and applied hoping to gain the skills required to work professionally in the area and left with... Read More a job as a full stack web developer. The instructor Dan took us from the basics of Ruby to building multiple fully tested applications. His approach of gradually building on each layer of the stack helped the entire cohort gain an in depth understanding of how these type of applications come together as whole. Both the back and front end were covered in depth ensuring we were job ready within three months and all who completed the training are now happily working in the industry thanks to Dan's support. I can't recommend the course highly enough, if you've got the drive to work hard and want to fast track your career in web development I can think of no better place to apply than We Got Coders.

I grew interested in re-entering the development market after leaving an unfulfilling career as an Oracle DBA. I investigated re-training options for web development and could only find one company that offered guaranteed mentorship placement as part... Read More of their course - We Got Coders. After meeting Dan, I decided to take a chance and be part of his first intake. After more than a year I am still working with the same company where Dan arranged me a placement after completing the course. It was through Dan's professionalism, expertise, and professional contacts that I gained the skills, experience, and exposure that was required to be placed with, and remain with, HI Hostels. I can wholeheartedly recommend him and the We Got Coders experience to anyone interested in entering (or re-skilling to enter) the web development market.

I was in the first generation of We Got Coders students. I would thoroughly recommend the course to anyone looking to start a career in web development.

When I first got interested in web development I met the WGC course instructor at a local developer... Read More meet up group. I had some experience with online Ruby and JavaScript courses before but none of these provided the breadth of knowledge I needed for the first foothold into a web development career. The more I talked with him, the more enrolling on the We Got Coders course sounded like the next logical step for me.

WCG was an intensive, 60+ hour week, exhaustive education in web development. We all put our lives on hold for 12 weeks, while we immersed ourselves in code. We learned more than just how to build simple Rails apps, we covered Rack, Sinatra and Padrino before moving on to Rails, JavaScript before moving on to jQuery and Backbone. The structure of the course insured we understood core concepts before moving on to more advanced frameworks and libraries. The class size was small so we each received a lot of one on one tuition and had our questions answered quickly and thoroughly.

What really separated We Got Coders apart from other similar courses was the 12 week work placement after the training portion ended. We put all of our training into practice, worked with clients, and received backup from our course tutor about one day per week, with regular check-ins to make sure we didn't get stuck or head in the wrong direction. We all received permanent offers to become junior web developers from the clients we worked for at the end of this stage.