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DaVinci Coders is closed
This school is now closed. Although DaVinci Coders is no longer accepting students or running its program, you can still see historical information and DaVinci Coders alumni reviews on the school page.
The DaVinci Coders training programs are full-immersion web development courses in Westminster, Colorado. After an intense 12 to 13-week training period, students will transition into an 8 week course working on applying coding skills in a real-world work environment. Courses are designed to teach people with drive and passion the fine art of computer programming while balancing their personal lives. For each course, students are required to attend class 3 times a week. In addition to this requirement, most students have found they spend 30-40 hours on additional class-related work outside of the classroom. Along with the immersive program, DaVinci Coders also offers 24/7 co-working space in addition to other workshop and networking events. Students in the Learn to Code training programs will write full-stack web applications while learning the fundamentals of programming, and quickly come up to speed with the process for writing software. They will finish the class with a working application, portfolio, and industry experience. Most importantly, the DaVinci program focuses on working in teams and solving problems like a seasoned programmer would.
The program culminates with a Demo Day where students can show off their accomplishments. There is also integrated career development curriculum training including the chance to build a working portfolio, and go through a mock interview to help them sell their newly learned skills in the job market. DaVinci Coders full offerings include immersion courses in Ruby on Rails Back End Programming, Swift Mobile Application Development, JavaScript Front End Development, and Learning to Program with Video Game Development.
DaVinci Coders recently acquired a provisional certification to operate as a school by the Colorado Division of Private Occupational Schools, which allows students to apply for the H1B Federal Grant. The School has also established MicroDegree™ accreditation.
The hands-on environment made a huge difference. I learned more about programming in 11-weeks at DaVinci than I did in an entire year at home.
Disclosure: I took the part time RoR course 2 years ago so my data may be out of date but I don't think so, from what I have heard.
The course was not well laid out. We started out doing through Learn Ruby the Hard Way in class. I am paying to go through the work we could do online. But it's going OK. We are learning VIM, middle-stack, etc... but there appears to be no focus, or at least we're not shown what that is. I implore with the instructor/admins to help with that, but not...
Disclosure: I took the part time RoR course 2 years ago so my data may be out of date but I don't think so, from what I have heard.
The course was not well laid out. We started out doing through Learn Ruby the Hard Way in class. I am paying to go through the work we could do online. But it's going OK. We are learning VIM, middle-stack, etc... but there appears to be no focus, or at least we're not shown what that is. I implore with the instructor/admins to help with that, but nothing.
The tutors were pretty much useless and admin staff did not listen at all when I asked for help/different tutor (they actually gave me a replacement: the 1 person I asked to NOT be given)
Homework was weird - we were working on homework for weeks that wasn't graded. Suddenly the instructor asks us to upload our homework at once. For most of us, weeks of homework (that we all had done) comes back as "wrong". I was flummoxed. Not only am I trying to figure out what is going on in THIS WEEK's curriculum, but now I have to figure out 3+ weeks of DAILY homework, all of which *all of it* which was wrong. Totally demoralizing. Instructor was less than helpful with this.
Turns out he was lazily applying an algorythm to the homework and if 1 character was off it would signal as "wrong" and send it back. Most of my homework was done correctly but then I just added to it by praciticing on the page to challenge myself. I had no idea that the extra work on the page was reading as "incorrect" to his checker. And he didn't do one of two easy fixes: 1. tell us that so we delete our extra work so it shows up verbatim or 2. look at the work and say, "oh you did your work plus extra credit, you have the CONCEPT CORRECT, move on." Instead it was "hide the ball" and make us figure out the issue.
The problem with figureing it out is this is 3 week old homework since he hadn't been doing homework checks at the beginnning. And to emphasize - this happened to everyone in the class, not just me. We talked about it - it was a point of frustration and confusion. Most of us first blamed ourselves, thinking, 3+ weeks in that we were really dumb and had been failing and not knowing it, getting no help or encouragement from anyone at Davinci, and then more/less getting blamed for it being on us to sort that out. We did, which was to lose interest in the program.
I never caught up with the curriculum. I met with the instructor, my tutor, admins and no one reached out to help me, just said "work harder". and expressed no shared responsibility iin this (which the ENTIRE CLASS was experienceing, all of us). It resulted in two courses - Ruby which I had figured out via this work I did well, and Rails/TDD which I utterly failed because of the pacing/structure and unwillingness of Davinci, to help.
Because of this, the project portion of the course was a shitshow. We basically had two students work on some semblance of a project. The rest of us were floundering - I showed up still working on back homework since I never caught up. We were basically abandoned about 1/2 way through the program and cohesion faded from there. Our instructor is supposed to be a RoR guru but he was not a very empathetic instructor.
Unless these approaches have been rectified (I would ask how the instructor helps individual students, how many tutors they have, how they match tutors to students, what happens if you need additional help) I would not recommend Davinici.
This 11-week video game development course was the equivalent of a two-year degree with everything that was taught and in all the skills I've learned.
DaVinci provided a great introduction to JavaScript and coding.
I met with the program manager at DaVinci Coders at noon on Saturday, January, 23. The interview went well and I was told I'd be contacted on Monday whether or not I was accepted. Monday came and went. Tuesday I woke up with a head cold and had to work. I called the office on Wednesday and was told that I had indeed been accepted. The program manager then proceeded to tell me that if she remembered correctly I was on the fence about which program to attend. Mind you I knew that I wanted th...
I met with the program manager at DaVinci Coders at noon on Saturday, January, 23. The interview went well and I was told I'd be contacted on Monday whether or not I was accepted. Monday came and went. Tuesday I woke up with a head cold and had to work. I called the office on Wednesday and was told that I had indeed been accepted. The program manager then proceeded to tell me that if she remembered correctly I was on the fence about which program to attend. Mind you I knew that I wanted their Ruby on Rails course (which I was very clear about) that started 2/1 and told her that I did not need financing, that I had the money and needed to purchase a MacBook immediately so I could make their software installation event on Saturday, January 30. Obviously time was not a luxury here with the course beginning on 2/1. She gave no explanation of why I was not contacted. Needless to say, the lack of professionalism turned me off on attending DaVinci. The actual courses and instructors may be top notch, I don't know and will never know because they dropped the ball right off the bat.
It's great to get started with others who can help get better connected in the industry.
The Building the Toolbelt of a Junior Ruby on Rails Developer course sorts out the most current, relevant topics used in the industry. Jason Noble (senior instructor) provides expert instruction on those topics and is always looking for new ways to improve the class.
Great class! There are so many things I've learned. I'm ready to be a developer. If you are passionate about learning and do the work you will be ready to be a junior web developer by the end of this course. Caron Newman (our instructor) is the best!
If you are willing to work hard and study, DaVinci can give you an advantage in the coding job market. A great alternative to all the outdated university programs out there.
Davinci was invaluable to me in the creation of http://enclosedworld.com The program gave me the skill set to produce and maintain my entire site. I would recommend this class to anyone, even if they have no knowledge of front end programming. I ...
If you are willing to work hard and study, DaVinci can give you an advantage in the coding job market. A great alternative to all the outdated university programs out there.
Davinci was invaluable to me in the creation of http://enclosedworld.com The program gave me the skill set to produce and maintain my entire site. I would recommend this class to anyone, even if they have no knowledge of front end programming. I started with just a basic understanding of HTML, and walked out with the ability and confidence to create websites that make Wordpress look silly.
I was thoroughly satisfied with the results of this course. I am exactly where I'd hope to be.
How much does DaVinci Coders cost?
The average bootcamp costs $14,142, but DaVinci Coders does not share pricing information. You can read a cost-comparison of other popular bootcamps!
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Where does DaVinci Coders have campuses?
DaVinci Coders has an in-person campus in Denver.
Is DaVinci Coders worth it?
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Does DaVinci Coders offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
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You can read 21 reviews of DaVinci Coders on Course Report! DaVinci Coders alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed DaVinci Coders and rate their overall experience a 4.4 out of 5.
Is DaVinci Coders accredited?
We are a Certified Occupational School CLASSES ARE APPROVED BY THE COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER EDUCATION (CDHE). A MICRODEGREE™ ACCREDITED BOOTCAMP
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