The Best San Antonio Coding Bootcamps Of 2023

Codeup LLC (San Antonio) was an incredible experience for me. I was transitioning from the military and had no clear path on what I wanted to do with my life. Having a knack for STEM, I decided to take up coding and found that I thoroughly enjoyed it. Through Codeup I have learned so much, especially having 0 technical background. I know that some of their practices are outdated (they know this, but tech is always changing and it is difficult to keep up with the new technologies), but I landed a job in an extremely difficult market within 3 months of graduation. Their instructors are awesome and their placement teams that assist you post graduation are awesome. If you put in the work, they will do everything that they can to help you land a job in tech. My instructor was awesome. He was a guy who had a passion for knowledge and wanted to pass on his knowledge to all of us in hopes of inspiring us. He did just that, I would not have the drive and passion for coding/development that I have today if it weren't for the instructors. Would highly recommend to anyone in the State of Texas.

I started this course with no prior knowledge or experience with analytics or coding and came out feeling like Einstein. Truly an amazing experience in all aspects. I leave this course wishing I could experience it all over again. 

I enrolled into Nucamp because the courses seemed to be inline with what I wanted to learn to become a Back End Software Engineer. Going through this first course, I firmly believe this has been the best thing for me! I'm extremely happy I decided to enroll into this bootcamp and can't wait to utilize what I learn to a future Software Engineering role!

CodeBound doesn't claim to fix your life, and It doesn't guarantee a long, successful career in the field. What it does offer is a chance to learn the skills that are building the modern world.

From day one we were told that we would only get out of this course what we were willing to put into it; Something they reiterated at every new technology learned. Still, they offered one-on-one tutoring for those who needed it, and were always active on slack even late at night where I would sometimes be stuck on an exercise that I couldn't finish in class and needed to reach out.

In addition to learning the technologies used in the industry, we also learned about the 'best practices' of the Software Engineering world, and mindsets and strategies to help us tackle the challenges placed on us during the class; The most important ones - in my opinion - being
"Never be too proud to ask for help",
"Taking a break is the easiest way to keep yourself from burning out",
"Learn your team's strengths so you know where to go when you need help and their weaknesses so you can help build them up",
and - Most importantly - "There's very few wrong ways to solve a problem."

Even when COVID-19 hit and on-site operations were halted in the interest of public health, We moved our courses online, extended our timeline (1 extra week to make sure we were adjusted for remote learning), and even adjusted our start times to make sure everyone was in the best position to continue learning.

I came out of CodeBound with a job offer I graciously accepted and have been leading my own development team since Day 1.

And for some of the other reviews left here; I came into CodeBound not knowing anything more than some basic HTML and CSS and now I'm pioneering functionality on a multi-million dollar project all thanks to the knowledge of my instructors and the first-hand, real world experience obtained as part of CodeBound.

I really enjoyed attending DevMountain. Personally, I felt like the structure of things were much better in the first half, and that the online content during specs did not match super well with projects, but I am still glad that I did it. My main critique would be that for the portion that was online and without a dedicated instructor, if the videos followed course material that they were made for it would have been much better. It was hard for me to know what things were going to be applicable to projects from videos a lot of the time and ended up focusing more of my time on the projects and just supplementing with the videos.

The first half with foundations was amazing though. I had really great teachers who felt like they really cared and were putting in a ton of work.