App Academy vs Hack Reactor

Hack Reactor is supposed to be the best. While I did have some great moments during the 19-week program, I have to say that I was a bit disappointed with the curriculum. Despite being excited to learn from some of the industry's leading experts, I found... Read More the coursework to be lacking in terms of real-world relevance. Many of the projects we worked on felt overly simplistic and didn't give me the knowledge I was looking for. Plus, I was hoping to learn more about the latest developments in programming, but the curriculum seemed outdated and clunky at times. Another issue I encountered was a lack of structure and guidance. With so many students in the program, it was challenging to get individual attention from the instructors. I felt like I was left to figure things out on my own, which made it difficult to stay motivated and engaged. Don't get me wrong; there were some fantastic aspects of the program as well. I met some incredible people and learned a lot about myself as a programmer. However, I do think that the program fell short of its reputation as a leading coding bootcamp. If you're looking for a laid-back and easy to coast-through program, then Hack Reactor 19-week program might be a good fit for you. However, if you're serious about pursuing a career in programming and want a more rigorous and engaging program, then you might want to look elsewhere.

I did the 19-week BootCamp with Hack Reactor/ Galvanize and it was pretty mediocre. - module 1 was quite useful, learned a lot about python and django - also the lecturers were decent built a CRUD todos app using django in the backend - looked pretty... Read More bare bones - module 2 - changed to new lecturers- lectures were absolutely horrid and abominable - some of the lecturers didn't really know their material, the explorations were not concise and terribly structured - at this point, the seirs ( students from previous cohorts hired to help/increase their employment numbers - were somewhat helpful ) - explorations were poorly written and a lot of members in my cohort were struggling - practically worked as a group to learn the material module 3 - seirs ( student TAs from previous cohorts - aid was nonexistent) - new lecturers - same as before - horrid bland lectures that didn't benefit students -basically you working on a project for 5 weeks I was appalled at the quality of career services - forcing you to lie on your resume and come up with false numbers to make your resume "better" To make matters worse for the next seirs they hired, they based on people's votes and votes from previous instructors. One of the seirs they hired and I kid you not, set up camp hogging the sier's time. When they would be done and asked to leave, they would jump to the next seir room. The majority of the time, I was forced to see other materials to supplement my learning. TBH, this program is absolutely garbage, save your money and just work on udemy videos because that's basically what you'll have to do.