Coding Dojo Reviews
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Julie Crotzer
Full-Stack Web developer
Everyone was so helpful including instructors and TA's. Also, they have a career manager that gives advice to help land a job. I would recommend Coding Dojo to anyone wanting to learn web developing. -
Ted cady
Best Bootcamp by far
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This is by far the best Bootcamp ever. If you ate willing to put in the long hours, and type til your fingers fall off, lol, then you can do this. If you have problem solving skills and don’t know how to use them, get a 500 error in Java and get back to me. If you think you already know how to code, that’s ok. They still have a program for you. I can honestly say I put more time per week learning to code and understand what I am writing, than I ever did for any job. And you will feel this way too. Don’t give up and challenge yourself everyday. -
Nathan Prater
Tough but Amazing Bootcamp!
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I worked account management for nine years and decided I wanted to change careers. I was always interested in software development and decided to join a coding bootcamp. I looked at several bootcamps and ultimately landed on Coding Dojo, due to their curriculum being tailored to your location's market and because their career services team starts with you on day one. And I am so glad I chose them!
My program started in March 2022 and ended July 1. Throughout the whole process, I met some amazing instructors and teaching assistants. I also made some great friends from my cohort. Everyone at the dojo was so friendly and helpful. The material was hard, and anyone who starts this without any sort of experience is going to struggle. However, if you put in the work, and utilize the amazing help available to you at the dojo, you can really succeed in this!
And now that I've graduated, I'm receiving amazing support from the career services team, who are all so knowledgeable and have helped me immensely in crafting my resume and searching for new jobs.
I couldn't be happier with Coding Dojo. If you are like me and want to move to software development, you definitely should and you should definitely go to Coding Dojo! -
Mila
NetSuite Developer
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I was able to change my career and get a job in Tech two months after I graduated! My instructors were knowledgeable, approachable, friendly and that made my experience even better.
After I graduated two of my friends signed up to Coding Dojo and one of them got a job three months after graduating at one of the top tech companies in the US, second one is close to graduating.
Great school overall, would recommend to everyone!! -
Armando Esparza
Amazing Coding Bootcamp
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I took the Coding Dojo Bootcamp, Did the Python, MERN, JAVA stacks. Even though the bootcamp was all online, I felt I was really learning at a good pace with not much trouble at all. The lectures were perfect, each instructor knew what they were doing and were so helpful when I had questions. I would definitely recommend the Coding Dojo Bootcamp to anyone wanting to start a career as a software developer. -
Patrick Wright
I loved Coding Dojo!
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If you want to become a software developer I think the value you get from Coding Dojo is well worth it. You aren’t just paying for videos or content to read, they really provide a robust and challenging experience that I will personally never forget. The friends you make in your cohort are essential for completing the program and becoming successful. The instructors and TAs are aligned with your goals and serve as teachers, mentors, and councilors. You get career service support and are able to become part of a community of developers which helps you transition into the field. These things combined with comprehensive and engaging content all combine to make it possible to learn so much in 14 weeks. The time estimates are all accurate, you will need to spend 50+ hours per week or more to succeed, but if you enjoy coding and learning it doesn’t all feel like work. I was actually sad to finish because I enjoyed the grind but now I have the tools and knowledge to continue what is the beginning of a new journey. -
Irving Cardenas
It is an experience of learning
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I think that the methodology of Coding Dojo, in the field of education of programming, is the best. The Bootcamp of the Coding Dojo is a big challenge because learning three stacks( Python, Java and MERN) in fourteen weeks, is a little time, but with the methodology and the support of the instructors, It is the perfect place to learn programming of a form intensive and a short time.Since I began with the Bootcamp, the instructor explained in detail the different technologies and the material of the platform were from the basic knowledge to advanced and it was the form most convenient for beginning programmers, like me.The Bootcamp introduces the development web( JavaScript y HTML), Python (Flask), Java(spring) and MERN(MongoDB, Express, React and Nodejs). The best part is that we have a Loreto Larrain the attendant of career service, for me, it is new, but it is necessary to find a job. Thanks to this knowledge, Alfredo and Marcelo my Instructors, I can understand and do code -
Coderrata
I was impressed with the process
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I was impressed with the process. I chose coding dogs based upon the consistency of the reviews, negative and positive. First, I would say that except for one instructor I was VERY impressed with the level of instruction, helpfulness, etc. Second the TAs were extremely helpful also and understanding and willing to always assist. This was important for me since I was coming from a completely different field.
The things I learned here had given me an extreme confidence to go and find jobs in my area while still learning more about programming. This program takes people from 0 understandings to creating applications albeit basic, understanding how things go together differences between them and giving you experience or sometimes just a quick look at new things in JS, for example, so your not fully surprised when you see it at your job.
Algorithms, React, apis, and basic programmer tools, are all included and make you competitive, I believe, at the end.
One thing that really impressed me was that their learning platform is constantly updating, it changed probably 6 times in the time I was there. They keep things updated and are constantly modifying it for your good.
Career services, the Career service person I use(d) is B. Sanchez and he is Great! Just a wealth of info
and encouragement.
I took off a 1/2 star for the Python instructor, I found that to be a big issue for me, but at the end my struggle of understanding with that instructor it allowed me to move on easier , but I still feel like the instructor wasn’t worth the money I paid. And the other 1/2 star would be from them not having the right dates of time off during the holidays. I went through it from November to early March and not many people knew, including instructors what the holiday was going to be like.
In all honesty though I would really rate them 4.5 stars as the latter want that big of a deal.
To end this I would definitely take other courses, and probably will, from Coding Dojo. -
Adam Keenan
Perfect Option for Career Change!
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I took the part time online bootcamp and loved it! I did the MERN stack option and learned so much. I enjoyed the class structure and the online learning platform was a fantastic resource. They also run a Discord server that gives you access to teachers and TAs! I would totally recommend this program for new high school grads or people making a career change (like myself leaving the legal field after 10 years)! -
Anna Mlodzianowska
Great bootcamp experience!
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I had a great experience attending Coding Dojo. Classes are well structured and teachers are knowledgeable. I was lucky to make some friends along the way too, and having a good community helps a lot in the journey.
Some statistics about post-grad job search: graduated in late December, started applying for jobs in February. After sending about 50-70 applications I secured about 10 interviews and on 21st March I started working as a SE for a consulting company.
My only complaint would be Career Services. My manager canceled all 3 of the scheduled meetings, I requested a change and got assigned a person who was leaving the company and during our call wasn't really engaged anymore. That got me a little discouraged so I didn't use that part of the service, although the content on the learning platform was very useful and helped me in the preparation of my resume.
All in all great experience was absolutely worth it! -
Carl Thomason
Outstanding Bootcamp
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As an alumni of Coding Dojo, I highly recommend this bootcamp for entry-level or junior experience developers. The structure of classes is laid out to fit the needs of individuals with no experience. The instructors and mentors are well knowledged and well versed in different languages. You will have the ability to learn multiple languages instead of one. Coding Dojo's instruction and values are what helped me land my job as a developer. Lessons taught made me successful in research and development. -
Alexander Klusa
Curriculum is very well structured
All bootcamp staff a really kind and really care about their students and want them to pass. They always go above and beyond the call of duty from my personal experience. -
Ryan
Best schooling experince of my life
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I truly enjoyed every moment I spent at Coding Dojo. I had a couple rough patches in life during the course but the instructors were always there to help me get through it mentally and educationally. I strongly recommend Coding Dojo for anyone that is considering entering the coder life. They are hands down the best. The instructors and TAs care for you and are there to help you anytime you need it no matter what the issue. I came into the course knowing absolutely 0 about coding less than 6 months later I can make complete websites in several different languages. As long as you are willing to put your mind to it and really grind for it you will enjoy every second and leave with the greatest feeling of accomplishment being able to recognize you went from knowing 0 to knowing how to make entire websites from a complete blank page. -
Daniel
Great School
Great School, Instructors are awesome, TA's really help out. And your cohorts are your new friends. Its a wild ride but worth it -
Marki Lyons
Valuable Experience
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Coding Dojo offers a variety of courses that cover the currently most sought after coding languages and trends in the developer world, as well as valuable career services for their students and graduates. Students with little previous knowledge of coding languages are able to learn to create full-stack applications in a short period of time through intensive study and practice. At every step, there are instructors, TAs, and classmates willing to help students progress from minimal to comprehensive knowledge. Coding Dojo offers a valuable bootcamp experience for those aspiring to enter the fields of web development, software engineering, data science, cyber security, and other related career areas.Sarah of Coding Dojo
Community Development Manager
Feb 23, 2022
Hello, Marki. We appreciate you sharing your thoughts with us, and we're glad to hear you had a good experience with our bootcamp, especially at this time when we're transitioning to digital during the pandemic. Rest assured that we will continue to develop industry-leading curriculum and educational programs to train our students. We're grateful for the opportunity to be a part of your learning journey and all the best in your future endeavors! -
Matt Edwards
Alarm bells going off
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Huge alarm bells went off for me with this company and I am glad that they did because as I tried to cancel they got even more shady.
I tried to enroll with Coding Dojo and was all set to pay. My wife wanted me to use a particular card to get extra miles, but it only had 12k available on it, and the course was starting soon so I needed to pay right away and didn't have time to pay down the card first. I looked on their website, but there was no way to split up a payment without jumping onto a payment plan. This is a bit odd since I can't have been the first person ever to want to split up a payment of over 13,000 dollars. I called and asked if this could be done. They said sure and they would look into making it work. They sent me back an agreement that had me on the payment plan spending 16k instead, and assured me it would be fixed afterwards behind the scenes... But the agreement that I would sign says that the contract I signed IS the full agreement and anything else that we talked about didn't happen.
They then went back to send me a new contract and update it. When they said it was fixed I went in to pay, but their website had me locked into the other payment portion. It was after their phone hours so I clicked to report a problem, and was greeted with an error message that it didn't work and I couldn't report an error. HUGE RED FLAG!
How does a company which purports to train people specifically on web development NOT have a website that works properly, and even their error reporting button is broken?!?! WHAT?!?!? I have pictures and documented all of this.
I was told afterwards to just click through this portion and then I could see the next screen and they would change it behind the scenes again. But the part they wanted me to click through would be agreeing to pay them, which at this point I have decided to go with a different coding bootcamp. I declined and told them I lost confidence in their company's ability to train me if they can't even fix their own site.
I then received 7 phone calls from their company using their auto-dialer. They had done this a few times before when they called and it would answer then click through to a person, but this time it was just dead air, all 7 times.
I then received an email from them stating that I needed to sign a withdrawal form for the class that I never actually signed up for. Hidden in the blue link that says "I acknowledge the Coding Dojo Withdrawal, Cancellation, or Drop Form." is actually another contract stating that my net tuition was $13,745, they haven't billed me, but some funny wording which makes it unclear on if I were to apply in the future if they would try to collect that part in addition to other tuition... not that I would apply to them in the future.
Keep in mind that I NEVER signed any contract with them. They basically just had a series of errors on their system's part and then asked me to sign an actual contract. No, nope, no way.
To make things better I now get non stop emails, calls, and youtube marketing. I have requested that they cease, we will see if they actually do. But a word to the community, choose someone more reputable than this. If a company is shady and has issues TAKING YOUR MONEY, the time when they are the MOST motivated, then what on earth makes anyone think that this company would stand behind their commitment to educate and assist with your job search, the part that COSTS THEM MONEY?Sarah of Coding Dojo
Community Development Manager
Feb 23, 2022
Hi Matt, we're very sorry to hear about your negative experience.
Please be advised that we have fully processed your cancellation request, and we sincerely apologize for any inconvenience or confusion during the enrollment process. We will have our dev team look into the reported errors you encountered. We understand your concerns, so we’ll also pass this along to our enrollment and admissions team to streamline any future enrollment experiences. -
Moosa Ghias
Coding Dojo Review
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So I did the Coding Dojo Part time BootCamp. It started with 6 weeks of frontend then moved on to 8 weeks of backend work with either Python, Java, or MERN as your tech stack. I would have to say that they did a very mediocre job. They teach you HTML well by making you do a few assignment of building things out. CSS was also sort of the same deal with the caveat that you were not allowed to use the flex property, which later came back to bite me in the butt since employers expect you to know it. For JavaScript they did a terrible job on teaching it to us. They taught us how to solve very light algorithm problems with it by teaching us the basic syntax, but they did not: 1. Teach us ES6 which is standard in the industry today, AND we didn't get to build anything for our assignments to help us learn how to manipulate the dom and make a website interactive. However, they did teach Jquery for a bit so that was a plus. When your frontend portion of the BootCamp is done you get to chose your stack. If you look on any job listing websites for frontend/backend/fullstack you will see that 80% of the jobs want you to know JavaScript for both the frontend and the backend. But when you have to chose which stack to do, all the teachers pressure you into taking the python route. Don't get me wrong, python is an awesome language, but it's the easiest language to learn on your own. If you're spending thousands of dollars on a BootCamp, its better to get your money's worth and be taught the more in demand and harder stack being MERN (Javascript). THE BIGGEST AND MOST TERRIBLE FLAW THAT THEY HAVE IS THAT THEY ABSOLUTELY DO NOT PREPARE YOU FOR CODING INTERVIEWS. They teach you DS and Algos for two weeks aka 4 classes for 1 hr each, in the last two weeks. So when I finished the BootCamp and went to my first coding interview, I thought I was going to do great, it turned out that I could not even pass the online assessment. They have absolutely no idea on how to teach coding interview prep. They get you from the ground to the door for software engineering jobs, but they don't give you the key for that door aka learning how to do coding interviews.Sarah of Coding Dojo
Community Development Manager
Feb 02, 2022
Hi Moosa, we appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback with us, and we are sorry to hear about your negative experience. Our core programs are designed to introduce students to a wide range of web development and software engineering technologies and tools. We are also very proud of our instructional team and curriculum, which are constantly designed to reflect the rise and fall of a given technology's demand. In addition, our curriculum serves as a foundation for developing self-sufficiency and learning new technologies as one's career progresses. From the start, we offer our students' Career Services, interview preparation resources, technical interviewing workshops, Microsoft Azure certification workshops, and much more after you graduate. Best of all, these services are offered for life with no expiration date. You are also welcome to join the Coding Dojo Alumni Community Group on LinkedIn, where we post resources and other materials that may be of assistance to you, as well as where we provide ongoing support to our graduates. Please message us at csm@codingdojo.com and we will be happy to get you into the alumni networks or help in any other way we can.We understand your concerns, so we’ll pass this along to our team. We'd be eager to help you, as student and alumni satisfaction is one of our utmost priorities. Please contact support@codingdojo.com so that we can assist you to the best of our abilities. -
Angel Velazquez
Pleasant Surprise
While making my career change, I needed to find a bootcamp that had a solid PT program but also had support and a good curriculum. I didn't think it was possible til I found Coding Dojo's Accelerated PT bootcamp. Great curriculum, great guidance and support. I knew some html and css before the program but I can confidently say I'm a software dev at this point. -
Joe Dollarhide
Truly essential
I tried watching YouTube videos, finding information on my own, and using alternative websites, but felt like I wasn't making the progress I needed. I really couldn't have made it this far without the courses and curriculum. -
Olja Siforija
Great experience
Absolutely love it! I believe that Coding Dojo is a great boot camp, with great instructors and TAs. As well, great support from CSMs and advices. Instructors create very pleasant atmosphere during lectures and motivate students. There is a lot of assignments and homework to do, but it is rewarding in knowledge you get. Would recommend it 100%. -
Dominique Macalinao
Very fast paced and takes a lot of effort
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I did the full-time Fullstack Web Development program at Coding Dojo. They weren't kidding when they said that the program will take most of your time during the three months you're enrolled. I really enjoyed the courses and I feel like they were able to help me understand the foundation of the programming languages I signed up for. I also have some portfolio projects thanks to Project Week. It was great to see people with different backgrounds come together and learn from the very beginning. It was a little too fast paced though. Because you move on from a language right away and start a new one, it's not surprising that you can forget what you've learned previously. There were also some things in the curriculum I wish they would've taught (and not optional) such as deployment. All in all, I definitely enjoyed my time at Coding Dojo. Is it worth the money? I'm not sure, but the possibilities you have after completing the program are endless. -
Nathan Denni
Just Gradutated!!
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Just completed two stacks with Coding Dojo! Their Par time Accelerated online software development program has the flexibility of other part-time options but lets you go through the curriculum faster. Instructors are super supportive and TA's are there to help when you get stuck. About to find out how helpful the career services are but they guarantee lifetime support so I am hoping things work out!
Overall I really enjoyed my experience with Coding Dojo. -
Mike
Could be good, but executed terribly.
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Where to start... The course overall isn't terrible, but the implementation and teachers are. The TAs barely know enough to teach (one couldn't unzip an exam and failed it, another couldn't explain why port 80 is HTTP).
The coursework is severely lacking. They consistently tell students they aren't providing all the information they need to succeed, and that students should find info themselves. Which would be ok if it weren't literally every single class / assignment. You end up wondering why you're paying them $14,000 to get told "use Google" every day. Although, in light of explanation skills of the teaching staff, Google *is* a better education, and you should wonder why you're paying $14,000.
They also teach old tech. Such as Python with Django instead of Flask. MEAN/MERN stacks that only work if you're deploying on 1 server, but not if you're using micro services or auto-scaling, etc.
Overall, I would say potential applicants are better off grabbing 4-5 courses from Udemy, and find a few projects on Google to complete. Which is somewhat sad because they *almost* hit the mark at Coding Dojo, but missed it just enough to miss it completely. -
Samer Yahia
Coding Dojo is Everything Necessary to Get A Job
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Overall, it is a great program to help you go from knowing nothing about coding to building a fully functional website/app from database to backend to frontend and deploying it on the web. It is very draining and hard but if you are serious about learning computer programming then the difficulty and pace should not be an issue.
Be prepared to drop a lot of responsibilities in your life for 14 weeks as you will be coding for at least 8 hours a day if not more. Class is from 9am-5pm and I typically coded for 9-11 hours. I was still able to relax, socialize, and do some chores but for the most part I would have to drop those things to get a little more studying in or to finish the harder or more complex assignments. But it was so satisfying to debug and figure out a challenging problem and completing a functioning website! If you know you wouldn't like being stuck on a problem or
There are holes in the program such as wanting practice problems/material for algos and the instructional material needing more videos/clearer descriptions of code/examples/solutions but it gets the job done and they seem like they are always trying to add/improve to the material as things become more relevant. My least favorite part was morning algorithms that were done in group settings. The lack of lecture beforehand frustrated me (I didn't even know where to start some mornings) and most people don't want to cooperate with each other. Probably because they don't know what to do either.
The Student Support/Career Services are also great in my opinion. I have heard/read that others do not like it but I think it is justified. They won't hand you a job and won't do the work for you. It is up to you to set up your portfolio and resume. And after to send your apps. But you have a counselor that helps with workshops, tips, and edits for each of these! They do mock interviews as well.
I tried to give as much information as I could! Overall I am very happy to have chosen Coding Dojo and feel that I have the tools to progress to a proficient coder!
Pros:
-Instructors (and some TAs) are fantastic. This may vary but I only disliked one who did not treat a personal situation of mine correctly.
-Curriculum gives you the tools and skills you need. But you do have to do additional work on top of it to master.
-Pacing if fast but if you put the time in it's not too bad! Just try to keep on pace or within an assignment behind. I recommend being a day to half day ahead
-Career services will help if you use them!
Cons:
-Tuition is expensive
-Algos in the morning are awful unless the instructor does a mini lecture and/or your group is good and talks!
-If you don't have a group you may struggle.
-No practice problems. Just assignments that build off each other and get more complex.
-Material on website
-If you have a lot of outside responsibilities full-time may not be best option for you. -
Rickie Dixon
Great experience!
My time at coding dojo was very challenging and also very rewarding. Getting into a rhythm with the workload took some getting used to, but eventually I found a good pace. The instructors and TA's were a great help every step of the way. Would highly recommend this program to anyone looking to get into coding. -
Emily Mabie
Fantastic Flex Experience!
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I cannot recommend classes at the Dojo highly enough. I was really worried that I might have trouble building a sense of community with my instructors and peers, since I was taking the classes strictly online and the live zooms were optional. I shouldn't have worried at all! My instructors were so personable and made it easy to feel connected, and my classmates felt like real friends! I loved the ability to connect with LGBTQIA+ and female-specific affinity groups using the Coding Dojo discord server, and never felt like I was lost without someone to turn to.
I also want to give a shoutout to the Career Services guidance I got along the way. It was helpful to have specific, actionable feedback on ways to make myself marketable, and their advice really works! Since the halfway point of the program, recruiters have been reaching out to me pretty regularly to discuss different job openings in the tech field. Plus, my CSM was really approachable and friendly, and I never felt silly asking for guidance. -
Laura
Good Jump Start to Your Career
Staff seemed to really care about your success. They d a good job teaching you how to do research on your own so you can be a self sufficient developer. -
Bryce
Part-time Online Python Full Stack
Shallow Python but decent deep dive into Django. Clunky transitions from seemingly established platforms. Should have waited until the end of a "class" maybe(?) -
Justin Lemmons
Full Stack Online Course Review
I took the full stack online programming course focused on Web Fundamentals, Python, Java, and MERN. -
Michael
current student at Coding Dojo
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General description
I'm currently a student with 1 week left taking the python stack. I'm pretty ADHD, so I naturally struggle when it comes to studying, but when I bring myself to actually study, the material rocks. It's pretty straight forward. It's set up in a way to give you the basics, and introduce some more advanced (yet still basic) concepts of how you can write your code differently, and overall just better. The reason they set it up this way is so that you will be forced to learn how to teach yourself, because if you want to be a real programmer in the real world doing real things, you HAVE to learn what your information resources are that you can call upon whenever you get stuck/run into a problem. The more you run into stuff like that the more it becomes like clockwork. You understand what to type in your search engines, how to look up examples, the actual MDS for the languages themselves, youtube, google, stack overflow, other websites. It kind of sucks at first being thrown into the chaos all at once but you're not left to drown. They have a basic 20 minute rule system:
Struggle with it for 20 minutes on your own... after that ask a fellow class mate, maybe work on it together (Which is great because on a real team of developers you'll need to be communicating and explaining what your code is, why you're doing it the way you are..{8 times out of ten just while you're explaining your issue and what your code is doing you see why it isn't broken and can fix it right there}.) If you're still struggling after that you have a discord room with plenty of TA's to help you solve your problem, and if it's during hours your teacher is there to help you as well... even after hours the teachers have gotten back to me so... pretty solid system. You just have to learn to not be prideful and set a timer so you don't spend an entire day trying to solve one problem... as fun as it can be, especially when you're having progress... You're still going to end up with a very similar answer... question is, do you want to take 20 minutes, or 6 hours? It's all on you to make big boy/girl decisions.
I was able to apply and win a scholarship from their program so that helped out with tuition. They have pretty straightforward tuition loans through a 3rd party bank but it's like they are in control of the loan so if they need to update it then that's fine. Basically you have 6 months after you graduate before interest comes in and the interest is HIGH... but if you start paying that off as priority just as the minimum payments due each month then it'll probably cost you total about 22-25 thousand dollars once that's all paid for. Otherwise If you're like me and just get stuff paid off ASAP depending on the job you land after you could have that paid off at like 18-20k USD... heck maybe even closer to 16k USD... Just depends on your situation.
Word of advice. Don't be working a job or doing anything else if you're doing the full time program or I promise you you won't make it. This is your job, this is your education... this is ALL you do. But if you're some person with lots of experience in programming then you probably could pull that off. I had a bit of experience, and I know I couldn't do it If I had other responsibilities.
For Job Support it seems pretty good and I haven't used it yet so i just put 3 stars because I honestly don't know. If I can update this review later I'll change that to whatever I actually experienced.
Pros?
- Teaches you how to work in a group
- Teaches you latest industry standards and programming software/languages being used by the majority of jobs hiring. They're constantly updating their curriculum, and in some cases remove entire curriculums and replace it with another framework (i.e. django, or flask) or programming language as the business side of this necessary education changes.. so you can trust what you're learning is actually what you'll be using!
- You'll learn how to learn any language or framework you're faced with in the future, and as scary as that sounds... in this field people at the same company will be learning new languages or software or frameworks etc. once a year... but the languages are pretty interchangeable... the concept never really changes of what you have to do, but the syntax does... so it's much easier to learn another programming language than it would be to learn your 2nd or 3rd spoken language (English, Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, whatever). After you get one language down you could learn to write the same program in python, except in C# or Javascript in the same day... maybe 2 or 3 if it's a much larger project. Better than taking another 4 months or year.
I honestly could go on and on about all the pros of this camp.
Cons?
I honestly can't think of any. I can promise you however that your experience will be determined by your motivation to learn this stuff. If you don't care about programing or full stack development or have no real interest or purpose for why you're learning it... to suddenly be thrown into a program that requires you to be studying 70-80 hours a week is going to suck for you.
If you don't know how to study, or haven't studied anything for like 10+ years, and your brain isn't used to having to learn so much in such little time, you are going to struggle because the brain is just like a muscle.. you use certain parts of it for different things... learning something like programming is going to make you mentally tired if you're not used to it.
All I can say is if you're committed and know this is the field you want to work in (which honestly there are over 155 different job fields so take your pick and hop around... it's all programming in the end.). For me personally I want to get into video game development, and this is a stepping stone in that direction but I don't want to go spend 4-6 years at a university before I go apply for a job... This is one way to do that.
Also if you learn how to learn this stuff and where to look it up there's litterally nothing to stop you from having an idea... building that idea on your computer... and then turning that into a marketable product or business, which resolves my other goal: I WANT TO OWN MY OWN BUSINESS. And if you factor in how much overhead the average business has compared to a programmer business? You have the cost of your computer.... and whatever other software or services you want to purchase related to your field... But then in any other business you have to rent or own a building, hire employees, pay for all their equipment they use, all the machines or devices required to manufacture whatever it is you're manufacturing... We're talking Millions of dollars just to start. I bought a new computer with all the parts I'll need to make a pretty decent video game for roughly $4,000 USD. That includes my computer, my monitors, my desk, my chair, and the standing treadmill under my desk when I want to move the chair away and walk while I work. You tell me which has the greater risk? Then If I make one program that 100,000's of millions of people around the world need and they all paid whatever it's worth... 1 dollar... well you got 100 million dollars, and after you pay whatever platform you launched it on and any other employees working for you on the project.. if you're the only business owner getting all the remaining profits after taxes, you're still walking away with 60-80 million of that 100 million.
Then if it threatens some major corporation with a monopoly on the market you either stay and competed or sell it to them for $500,000 million USD.
All you have to do is STUDY... and APPLY, and there's nothing more rewarding than seeing the exact thing you just learned, applied to your idea, and immediately seeing result to the question, "why is it important I learn/do this?" You're not going to get that at a university that simply forces you to replicate programs... it'll help you on your way no doubt, but when it comes to real world experience and applying what you learned for your future employer... This bootcamp does that!
Hardly a con eh? -
Drew Petty
full time online
The bootcamp went at a good pace. I learned a lot and has prepared me to be a good developer -
Riley
Great experience
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I had a great experience with this boot camp, Coming in to this boot camp I didn't know anything about coding at all. By the end of the camp I am capable of producing a full stack web app thanks to the skills I had picked up at coding dojo they have an awesome lurning platform that helped streamline my lurning presses aswell as helpful instructors that were there every step of the way. it wasn't easy but nothing worth having comes easy you have to work for it. -
Arnold
Great learning experience with wonderful peers & instructors
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Coding Dojo really breaks down the borders into understandable concepts. With huge libraries of topics ranging from data structures to deploying your application. With different a wide range of programs, Coding Dojo had the right program for me working in the day time and attending classes in the evening. Attentive instructors during lectures who always have an open door policy to schedule 1-on-1 time for specifics questions or code reviews. Coding dojo also has dedicated instructional assistants available to give you that boost or to look over your code when you hit a wall. I really felt like my experience was wonderful from great instructors Zack Pieper, Michael Taylor, Sal, Devon Newsom, thank you so so much! -
Dillon
Great Challenge even for those with no experience!
I started this Bootcamp with no experience in coding at all and after completing the course I am a lot more confident in being able to look at code and create a basic functioning full stack project! -
Howard L
Effective Learning
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The learning platform is informative and the instructors are well knowledged. Your progress is definitely on you though, it is tough work and a big investment but with the right mentality and work ethic Coding Dojo can teach you what you came to learn. The journey isn't over after you finish the course, and they stress that. This is a life change that you decided to do and they do their best in preparing you before the course, during the course and after the course. You learn a lot from the boot camp to get you started and there's plenty more to learn after. -
David N
Great value, great school
I completed both a full-stack Python and Data Science PT bootcamp with Coding Dojo. Can't say enough great things about the school, it's online curriculum platform and relevance to current industry standards. I was fortunate to have both Michael and Noelle as my main instructors through both platforms, and cannot say enough about their patient teaching methods. -
David Krouwer
Great experience!
Had a great experience at Coding Dojo. Curriculum was great, instructors were fantastic. Had TA support until 9:00pm CDT M-F, which came in handy often. Great career services as well! -
John A.
Great Platform for Learning, and Improving
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I strongly recommend Coding Dojo. From top to bottom, the students feel well taken care of with resources, instruction, assistance, and career services. From the day I showed interest to the day I graduated, any email for support that I sent received a quick personal response. The learning platform is relevant and updated frequently to make sure the content is accurate and helpful. The assignments and exams are fair and challenging, and there are challenges to ensure that your learning can go above and beyond the bare minimum.
The courses are challenging, even to someone with some coding experience. You can always ask either a TA or instructor for help, but it is encouraged to problem solve for twenty minutes before reaching out. I took the Python, C# and MERN stacks, all different from each other, and was challenged and learned a lot from each. I can now say confidently that I can build a full stack website from scratch in any of these three languages.
Although this is not a knock on Coding Dojo at all, because of Covid our schooling had to be entirely on Zoom, Discord, and the learning platform. Once again, this is hardly a con because I always felt I could reach out for help, perhaps more so than if classes were in person.
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Rocio Sosa
Great Program!!
I love this program, it really teaches you all of the basics that you will need to know for a career in web development. -
Kamal
"Corporate" Dojo will get you Terminated/Released
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After 3 years of employment with my company I ran into a red flag with my background check. I listed Coding Dojo as education and experience. Cause of the pandemic Chicago Dojo decided to disconnect their phone lines and not be reachable except for email. I tried to avoid an issue by requesting a phone number instead of email. Corporate Dojo also does not have a phone line, but only email. With $15K tuition, they can't afford a phone line? Corporate Dojo is in Seattle and I have never been to Seattle. They decided to tell me employer that I never worked there, and I never claimed I worked in Seattle Dojo. Without informing me. From local Chicago Dojo, all I needed was a casual statement saying that yes I did attend between these dates to have valid experience and education. They would not even do this. I explained that after 3 years of employment, this is not the time to get on a high pedestal/soap box about my request. They drew an imaginary line and refused to help. For a place that isn't FAFSA eligible and non-accredited this ridiculous. They risked my job on semantics and lost.
Clarification on the program. It is not a 14 week program. You have 3 3-week stacks with a project week at the end. You start out with the 2-week fundamentals stack. If you pace yourself for a 4-week program you will not be able to join then contribute to a project. You will need to rush and be eligibile for a project team.
It really needs to be a 17-week program. They raised their tuition but kept the 11-week program.
During my time there, one instructor did not know how to use Git, and lost a whole days assignment trying to "fix" a Git issue. 10-hours of work gone, and he just walked away.
Another instructor got fired ( I notice a trend here, Coding Dojo likes to get people fired) In the middle of a stack!
Even though this is a "bootcamp," during Thanksgiving week there was no enforcement or expectations about coding. We have no vacations and are paying for full time. It's a "bootcamp." Yet our project week was lost because the instructors/boss decided this was okay. There were no classes on Thurs/Fri yet we didn't get our days moved into next week.
I should get a weeks worth of money back.
Last stack the online program was totally unprepared! The cirriculum had no way to tie the back and front end together. The concepts were foreign to each other and no way to connect them. They should have suspended classes if they did not have the material. After 3 wasted days, one instructor explained it in 20 MINUTES!
The 4 A-Grade (black belt) students with prior coding experience could not figure it out. They said Google changed their stack and it's too new. Then give everyone a refund, suspend classes, or get your crap together.
Same thing that happened at Thanksgiving happened again, except for Christmas and New Years. How is this a 'bootcamp.' Either enforce rules, or start the cohort one week ahead to avoid multiple holiday conflicts.
Would you want to go to a vocational training program that gets you released after 3 years of employment? Think about that before you pay your money to attend. They do not have your back after they take your cash.Luke Lappala of Coding Dojo
Director of Communications
Mar 31, 2021
Hi Kamal, we have reviewed our records and our communications with yourself and the verification firm that your employer used. When contacted by the verification firm, they explicitly requested employment verification. We responded by clarifying no such records existed, providing your educational records, and verifying the accurate dates you attended Coding Dojo.
After we sent the information, you requested that we provide a statement indicating a different timeframe for your enrollment. To provide the statement you requested would have been a purposeful misrepresentation by omittance on Coding Dojo's part, even more evident given that we had already provided them your education documentation stating the start and end dates of your 14 week program. We ultimately denied your request for the separate statement and are not responsible for any employment-related repercussions that may have caused.