Coyotiv

Coyotiv School of Software Engineering designed a programming curriculum with openness, and transparency in mind. The story-based approach takes you from step-0 to deploying your own app in a real cloud environment. 
From learning vanilla JavaScript to developing an app with modern frameworks, you learn a lot of steps, technologies and concepts along the way. 
Instead of giving out the answers, you are given all the information, help and tools to find the answers yourself. This made the a course a true learning experience for me. 
This is not just another online course that bombards you with unfiltered information. The course is designed with a variety of live sessions, pre-recorded video sessions, a collaborative wiki to exchange information and experienced with your peers and other cohorts. 
This course not only teaches programming, but also gives you some insights into, how it will be working as an engineer. Knowledge gained from years of experience are shared with you throughout the course. 
How will your work life be as software engineer? What problems will you face as a programmer and how can you tackle them? How will you develop as a person with a career in tech? 
Team work is a crucial component of the course: In the full time course you learn together as a team with your peers, who are always there to push you and help you. Exchange experiences and share problems with your fellow participants over a variety of modern tools for collaborative remote working. This was a great preparation for the daily routines that are waiting for you in the real job world. To make finding a job easier for you, career coaching is part of the course as well. Interview preparations, building you own CV, creating complete a job application is just as important in this course as learning programming. 
This course is designed to push your knowledge and experience with software development, gain the confidence it needs to get the job and the position you are looking for. 

It is no exaggeration to say that Coyotiv changed the course of my life. The school provided me with the necessary foundation to develop skills as a software engineer in a broad aspect, but with a central focus on fundamentals. This is exactly what I had not found elsewhere: solid fundamentals. Before joining Coyotiv I had tried: to be self-taught with online classes, do another online bootcamp focused on the job market and react, a school especially for women. These previous experiences were very frustrating, I felt that although I could understand some even complex concepts, I could not finish any exercise, my knowledge was dispersed and fragmented and most instructors had no didactics. What Coyotiv offers, in addition to instructors with a lot of industry experience, is didactics. It is a pedagogical model that prepares you to be autonomous, regardless of language or technology.Now that I recently started my first job as a software engineer, I can understand that the school prepares you to really act in this role.This is because we are taught how to code, but also about all the other necessary attributes: from how to prepare your curriculum, how to think about your career, interview strategies, how to be a good speaker, how to be part of a team, how to contribute to the open source community... Coyotiv means to me today to be part of a community based on collaboration and sharing. The course is super intense. In the 13 weeks I was a part of it (9 weeks course plus 4 preparatory weeks) I breathed Coyotiv. The medium is the most difficult because the content becomes more difficult and it takes time to absorb the enormous amount of information. But during all the time we have all the support of the instructors, who are always present. It is worth mentioning that here I also discovered how fun and enjoyable code can be, breaking with pre-judgments that I had about the profession.By using a one by one methodology, the course adapts to the point where you are and your own interests. Even though I was part of the first class, I got my first job before I finished the course. So, if one of the concerns is employability, the school really prepares us well for the market.The 4 weeks before the course of preparation are equally intense, and VERY necessary if you, like me, have no experience in code.

Career Changer & Recent Graduate of the Full-Time Full Stack Software Engineer - (29-10-2021)
Cons: The course requires you to be out of your comfort zone.
Pros: The course provides you with the necessary tools, resources and support to enjoy being out of your comfort zone:
- Enjoy learning daily in a safe space regardless of your previous knowledge, background, nationality, race or sexuality.
- Have personalize feedback to improve not only your technical skills but your soft skills too.
- Great Instructors & Course Content that will keep your levels of motivation up and job ready. 
- Understand what best working practices truly are and how to critically evaluate them yourself.
- Great learning culture to become great at teamworking as well as working autonomously.
- Be part of supportive & collaborative community
Overall an exceptional experience & 100% Recommend to enrol the course and challenge yourself.

I am a recent graduate of the full-time program and when I look back it was the best decision I could have made for my career. I was a career changer from a completely unrelated background and a complete beginner and Coyotiv was exactly what I was looking for and needed after struggling to learn on my own. It was the best investment in my desired career and you get to hang out and meet amazing people along the way and gain a community for life. I got hired as a junior a month after finishing the course in an amazing company. Overall amazing experience, great school, perfected curriculum and the best instructors! 100% recommend!

I was a full-time student in Coyotiv and it was such a crazy journey. The course teaches you to be an independent software engineer who can solve problems with an open mind and courage. The curriculum is so powerful that when the course ends students are able to build and deploy their apps using best practices on code, among the team and in the open source community. Along with this technical power, the course also provided me the soft skills like team-play, task management, problem solving and a proactive way of working.

Absorbing the content in the curriculum, we have always been encouraged to ask all the questions we had and the staff has always been there to answer them in the best way possible. I have never felt left alone and I tried to leave no one alone. The collaboration in the learning process is one of the best assets that Coyotiv provides.

Another thing I loved about this course is the instructors care about our professional presences. They integrated Career Bootcamp and Public Speaking workshops into the course. These prepared me to present myself in a field that I was inexperienced before.

This course provides you everything you need as a career changer. I love Coyotiv and I am so happy to be a part of its community even though the course is over :)