Coder Foundry Reviews
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Michelle L
No Question Unanswered
I was able to learn and the comfortable environment in the classroom where no question was unanswered
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John mannio
Very prepared
The projects prepare you for going into the job market. I flet very prepared for my job with the training I recieved.
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Victor L.
Hands on training
I enjoyed the hands on training. I had a very positive experience.
Slightly unorganized in curriculum at times. At the onset very directed but lost direction in the fourth project probably intentionally in some respect, but still needed a more pointed experience. Media issues were distracting at times setting up streaming and so forth.
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Fouad
Practical
Very cool school. It focuses on the practical part which is all it takes to be a successful coder.
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Enoc Ananda Pardue
Microsoft Xamarin DevDays 2016
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Bobby and Antonio were great presenters and instructors for this one day immersion into Microsoft Xamarin tool for cross-platform mobile application development.
This was my first time in the Coder Foundry facilities and I was totally impressed. I can see how comfortable it would be to attend one of their longer Full-stack development courses. I left feeling confident that any training time spent with the Coder Foundry team and at the their facilities would be time and money well spent.
As an added bonus, the Coder Foundry team conveys a passion for software development that is infectious and encouraging. They appear to take genuine joy from helping you to reach your full potential by helping you learn the skills that will grow your career and your success as a software developer.
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Tony Baranski
Xamarin Dev Days
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This was a great course for a one day event. Antonio did a great job with the Xamarain Forms portion of the presentation. I liked the format of leaving a good amount of time for completing the lab. There were also plenty of assistants available to answer questions during the lab. Everyone on Code Foundry staff was nice and knowledgeable. I would have no hesitation about doing another course here.
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douglas matthews
Xamarin Dev Days Success
great course great help from staff hope to have more.
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Eric B
Xamarin Dev Days Success
One day event, instructors were knowledgeable and friendly. Content was conveyed clearly, plenty of lab time.
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Shane Overby
Changed My Life
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I attended the Masters Course at Coder Foundry (Kernersville, NC) in 2015, from July to September. Before attending I had very little knowledge of and experience with the technologies taught in the course and practically no knowledge or skill in web development. Coder Foundry's teaching methodology, along with great instructors, is what makes this program work. The intensity of the course, being designed to mimic a real-world software development work place, coupled with the fact that the student is having to learn and absorb the material as they are "working", makes this course work. The hands-on approach at Coder Foundry proves to be the best way to forge developers from people that have only a basic understanding of what programming, in general, is.
Along with learning the most relevant web development technologies in the marketplace, Coder Foundry offers their job placement services to students upon, and sometimes before, completion of the course. This service is invaluable to under-experienced developers coming out of the course. Throughout the course, every Monday, each student has to attend a mock interview session where they present their current projects, explain their code and answer technical development and web technologies questions. The preparation that each student receives to assist them in landing a job after the course is amazing. I had three interviews within four weeks after completing the Masters Course. Even for that first real interview, I felt calm and in control, using the training and techniques taught by the Coder Foundry team. I landed my first development job only twenty-seven days after graduating from Coder Foundry.
With my first job, I increased my salary by 95.3%. Obviously, the ROI from Coder Foundry is not an issue. There is enough demand in the marketplace for developers with the skills taught at Coder Foundry that finding a job after the course should be the least of a student's worries.
The course is not easy. I don't want to make it sound like it is. It demands a lot of time, in the classroom and outside of it, but if a student puts in the time, uses the resources available to them, asks a lot of questions and has a passion for coding, they can begin a successful career in software/web development with the help of Coder Foundry.
I am a more fulfilled individual in my new career. I enjoy the culture and attitude of the development community and with my new schedule and salary am able to spend more time with my family, enjoying the things we like to do.
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Tim
Met Expectations
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As for curriculum, I think it was fine. The first 10 weeks definitely build upon each other in a logical order. By the time you reach the Financial App yo should have a pretty solid foundation.
I was not a fan of the Angular JS segment at the very end. At that point I was burned out and it was a bit much to absorb.
The good new is that I understand the basics and see that it was modeled after MVC. I am sure I can figure it out. I do appreciate the opportunity and experience overall. The 12 week accelerated did meet my expectations.
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Benton
2 interviews before graduation
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Coder Foundry's curriculum covers full stack web development, staying current with new technologies. Instruction is well led at the with Antonio and Mark both extremely helpful to students with their learning. I was lined up for two interviews before the course ended but havent landed a job yet, so cant speak fully to the placement services but Coder Foundry does seem to be doing what they can to help me get a job as a developer.
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Sanyu
Great, but needs more teachers
It was great overall. I wish we had more teachers in the classroom daily to help answer questions.
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Jesse
5 out of 5
After my 12 weeks at Coder Foundry, I feel that their curriculum and instruction deserve ratings of 5 out of 5. Everything was superb and put into a format that was easy to understand and well taught.
By coming into this with a job already, I did not experience their job placement services, and therefore can not fairly rate this aspect.
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Donny Walton
It was a great experience for me
It was a great experience for me from start to finish. The instruction was great, the job placement services went above and beyond anything I could have hoped for, and the curriculum did a fantastic job illustrating the concepts of MVC and .NET.
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Anthony
It worked.
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Overall very satisfied. The focus on .Net was the right choice for me. The demand is there. Ultimately the projects I built landed me a job as in the industry as a developer. I finished the curriculum and Natosha lined me up with interviews. I am working as a .Net developer now in financial services. Basically, you build a series of projects and then use that portfolio to interview/leverage your knowledge for jobs as a developer.
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Jim
The instructors know their stuff
Ria and Antonio know their (coding) stuff and the other students that I got to know.
The Kernersville facility works well (not sure how it is now that 2 classes are in session).I would have liked more/better suggestions for "pre-work" to be better prepared for the huge amount of information that a new student is expected to "digest".
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Abigail
Excellent Instructor
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Ria was an excellent instructor. She maintained a consistent balance between letting us work through our own frustrations and stepping in to direct us towards solutions. Her patience was unending. The weekly interview presentations were also very helpful, as well as the strict deadline structure.
My expectations coming in to the course were different than what was actually here - mostly in the amount of preparation required. I expected to get more instruction on basics of development, Javascript, etc. The website and my contacts before coming assured me that I would be fine without prior experience, but once here I found that I was expected to already have strong foundations in front-end and object-oriented languages. It seems that the new longer program will address that.
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Daniel Kinai
Looking forward to success
I learnt a great deal, have made awesome friends, and I know I will be successful at my next job. New students should be made aware that they will need to prepare for at least a month if they a new to coding! Thanks.
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Corbin Steele
Focus!
There was an excellent focus on practicality in everything that was taught.
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Jamie McConnell
Camaraderie
Loved the people - students, instructors, and staff. The camaraderie, the common goals and the attainment (100%) of those goals.
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Powers Wartman
Love the Teaching Model
I love the teaching model and support throughout the class. Small classes are crucial to ensuring this.
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Mandy T.
I find the teaching style effective.
I find the teaching style effective.
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Elliot E.
Fantastic Instructors
The instructors are fantastic and are excellent communicators; they know how to engage their students and attend to their needs.
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Pritesh P.
Practical and Useful
I like that we are learning things that are practical and useful in the field. I like that you guys help us find a job after. This was the deciding factor for me to come here opposed to other boot camps.
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Allan C.
Tons of hands-on, practical experience.
Tons of hands-on, practical experience.
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Hema M.
Job interview preparation!
Monday interviews are a great exposure for preparing for the actual interviews. It helps me know the areas where I have space for improvement.
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Edward Waked
Plant Bio Major who was a Financial Service Rep and is now a DEVELOPER in 6 months!
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I went to Coder Foundry with very little experience in Coding and I took their part time night class. I was a plant biology major at NC State and I had taken a intro to Java course there but thats where my experience stopped. I left college and joined my dad as a Financial Service Rep for a multi-billion dollar firm but wanted to change careers to something I was more passionate about, computers. There was a large range of fields I could study but I ultimately chose software programming and after even more research I had it narrowed down to 2 schools. One in New York that was super expensive and had mixed reviews or this fairly new local school I couldnt find too much information on (Coder Foundry). I went with the local less expensive route and I think it has paid off ten fold and I would never change my decision to go there. What I got was a real hands on approach to learning HOW to program. Their program gave me the confidence to step into a real world job and say I can handle whatever they throw at me. That is crucial because your teachers wont be there holding your hand at your new job. The thing is the confidence from the continuous trial and error you build at Coder allows you to handle yourself professionally right out of the gate. I was overwhelmed for the first few months and I worked incredibly hard to get where I am. This is something you have to do 110% or else you dont succeed. But I am proud to say I have a great job as a software development programmer at a small start-up in my town and I couldnt be happier. Thanks to every one at Coder Foundry for helping me get here (classmates included)!!!
FYI - as of writing this I know they no longer offer the night class, in case you are wondering if you can do the day class (which is much faster paced) just contact them. They will give you a mini coding test and it should help detemine if you would be able to keep up with the class. 09-10-2015
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Don Y.
The Master Course was designed very skillfully.
The technologies are taught in a sequence that allows us to integrate them together as we build on them - HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MVC, Razor, Entity Framework. The coaching from my instructors is always insightful and patient. The hands-on approach is absolutely the best way to go. I am very grateful for this excellent program.
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Ray G.
I really like the one on one level of attentiveness that is offered here.
I appreciate that everyone involved, is genuinely focused on every student becoming better than they were the day before. Everything is handled in such a manner to ensure that by the end of this course, we won't just think like developers or talk like one, we'll be one.
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Jessica
The extra one-on-one time has been very helpful to me.
The extra one-on-one time has been very helpful to me.
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Austin R.
Austin R.
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I enjoy having the instructors give a small lecture. Most going for about an hour or two at max. Also it was really nice to have a group there you can always converse with and have help with problems you are stuck on.
Being straight out of my first semester of college, this is seeming to be a very masterful education method. It is, in my experience, far superior to the education system used in colleges. I definitely am more productive and successful in project based, rather than memorization and theory based, education.
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DJ Debnam
Significant amount of improvement
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I really like the help that I am able to get from the instructors. Concepts that only sort of make sense to me are explained clearly when I ask the instructors about them. I also like that even though I don't have as strong a background as some of the other students, I am noticing a significant amount of improvement, owing to the fast-paced nature of the course. The instruction is great and I have no issue getting assistance when I need it. There isn't anything I would change.
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Eric Ruff
Exhilarating and awesome!
This has been very hard, exhilarating, and awesome! I wish I had done this earlier. I'm being pushed beyond what I thought was my maximum, and yet this pushing is making it all come together faster and in more depth than I ever could have done on my own. Thank you, Coder Foundry!
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Bryant M.
Mentorship, not just instruction.
Coder Foundry offered mentorship, which is what I valued the most out of my experience here.
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Qi Zhang
Interaction with the students and staff is an advantage
Working on projects instead of just reading textbooks or working on homework has given me an even larger set of skills that I can take with me to the workplace immediately.
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Jon Carlee
Being able to get through this rigorous program was a really exhilarating feeling.
My experience at Coder Foundry was amazing. You're able to directly apply what you learned in the class instead of just learning theory. It was really cool to get a hands-on experience with the code.
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Anthony DeFreitas
This really is "accelerated learning"
It was difficult balancing the workload between my contract job and this program, but I enjoyed the "accelerated learning" model of learning C# and .NET
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Rasik Rodriguez
Taught MVC Very Well
I am proud of how well I mastered MVC - once I started each project, I had everything working within a week, which is a great accomplishment for me.
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Philip Weiser
Good experience
Most proud of the fact that I learned and mastered MVC.
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Antonio Raynor
Offered a job before I even finished the program.
Everything went well for me. I made myself very marketable with a new understanding of MVC, and I landed a job through Coder Foundry long before the program had ended.