Developers.Institute

Instructors:

• Pro: Extremely knowledgeable and patient.
• Con: None

Who can apply:

• Pro: No prerequisites so anyone can apply.
• Con: Due to lack of selection, some students can hold the class back which will result in you having to go over the class notes independently at home in order to complete the daily content.

Content:

• Pro: Assuming you don’t have experience, you will definitely leave with more knowledge than you came in with.
• Con: The content is a bit backdated, for example you can still find “var” in the textbooks. Also, the language is sometimes confusing to understand, it for sure hasn’t been proof read by a native English speaker.

Home assignments:

• Pro: Fun and educative. The instructors go over one assignment every morning before class.
• Con: The Checkers unfortunately don’t actually check your work or give you feedback, you will get full marks as long as you submit something.

Landing your first job:

• Pro: You get workshops to assist with your LinkedIn and resume.
• Con: Recent change of career coach and understandable learning curve results in very few students actually landing an internship.

Что для меня DI? В первую очередь это отличная среда для достижения новых целей. Я пришел на программу JavaScript с бэкграундом в программировании, и с целью освоить Web разработку. Это были очень интенсивные и интересные три месяца с большим количеством интересных задач в разных сферах разработки, когда каждый день вы должны разработать по несколько маленьких проектов (большую часть из которых можно добавлять в ваше резюме) , а в конце недели у вас обычно есть пару больших проектов подобранных специально чтобы охватить все новые знания за неделю у вас есть большая мотивация учить новые для вас технологии потому что в процессе выполнения этих заданий вы с вероятностью 100% столкнетесь с разными интересными проблемами с которыми вы можете столкнуться только в практике, а ваш инструктор будет всегда рад помочь вам разобраться.  В течении обучения проходили два интересных хакатона. Хотелось бы подметить профессионализм с которым разработан учебный план. Так же хочется отметить команду преподавателей на программе JavaScript, это люди которые пришли в DI не просто отсидеть свои рабочие часы и пойти домой, а пришли учить людей новому, и это видно по тому как они относятся к студентам. Я много раз подмечал как преподаватели оставались даже сверхурочно чтобы помочь ребятам которые что то не поняли и объясняли им материал. Что касается подготовки к первой работе в сфере, каждую неделю проходили тренинги по разным Soft skills которыми необходимо обладать разработчику, тренинги по составлению резюме , профиля LinkedIn и по ситуации в израильской сфере высоких технологий. 
Подводя итог этих трех месяцев хочу сказать, что это было очень интересно, интенсивно и полезно. Спасибо команде DI, это было круто!

what I really liked about developers-institute coding bootcamp is the practical way they taught us to become full-stack developers,
because there are no secrets, for becoming a good developer - practice, practice and practice!!
I found the lesson's structure very planned,
it's very intensive but worth every minute. just take the time and div into the material and challenges.
the staff is open for the student's feedback, and they are improving the lessons and the learning platform continuously.
for conclusion, I highly recommend developers-institute, it's a wonderful place where you can get all the tools to be a great developer!!

Graduated in Jan 2020. School taught  well and in depth. Teachers were very knowledgeable and made changes as needed/requested. Came out with a very high level knowledge of everything Development related and an advanced working knowledge of Python coding (and JS after I did that course too for free). Really great time, fun learning, and 1000% useful for getting into tech, or moving up in tech. While the school assists in internships (and I was placed into two) I did not use the school in job placement assistance. 

I was studying at developers institute 3 years ago the javascript part timebootcamp. After a lot of work, and thanks to the amazing teachers, TA and directors that encouraged me, i got the opportunity to start my new career in the hi tech. Developers institute is not just a coding bootcamp it is much more than this, it s a place that influence you, I participated to amazing lectures about leadership, creativity. As a new imigrant this place helped me integrate myself to the country in a professional way and i will never be enough thanksfull for that. 🙏

When I decided to join a bootcamp in Israel, I contacted different institutions. My experience was very disappointing, I felt I was expected to enter a kind of pre made drawer, my skills were not valorized at all and I thought a bootcamp might not be the solution for me. That’s when I met Developer Institute. The manager Megane is one of the most amazing and devoted person I have met so far. She helped me with finding foundings, she valorized my knowledges and helped me link them with my tech skills in the best way. I learned so much and with hard work and the support of very good teachers as well as an amazing online platform with a life access to it, I feel I am now ready to join a company as a developer. Not only the classes thought me the bases I needed to start my new carrier but Avner and Megane the two managers brought me a lot of support, and helped me develop the self confidence I needed to call myself a developer. My colleagues were very motivated and all coming from very different backgrounds, and all our skills merged towards creating a cohesive group and helping each other. I am very proud of being part of this class of wonderful people that were selected over their potential and motivation and not because they could fit a preset position in an hypothetical company. Each one of us were able to develop and grow towards our dreams as different as they were, because yes the tech world is enormous and it has space for each of our fantasies.

I applied for the JS part time course. The process was smooth and I started the course after an interview. The course curriculum was divided in a steady manner to my liking. Teachers are eager for you to understand the studied material. Any suggestion or request I had during the course was listened to and taken care of. Honestly I don't have anything bad to say about the course. I am graduating next week , just completed my final project. Six months ago I had no idea I would be able to do the things I do today. Remember though, there is no magic here- you have to study hard , ask questions and code a lot for you to truely succeed.
 I recommend this course a lot. The DI team is great.

Developers Institute is a bootcamp where everyone really cares and I really appreciated that! After only 3 months learning coding from scratch I can now create apps I didn't think I'd do after years of learning. All the teachers are professionals and also very kind and supportive persons who can help you in any time. They will always ask you if everything is OK or you need an additional review of any topic. Also I can say that career coach really tries to do everything to help in finding internship after graduation (creating CV, portfolio, your strengths defining, recommendations, sending your CVs to the best companies DI works with). Finally, I'd like to say that if you really want to get knowledge and become a professional developer, Developers Institute is the right place for you!

This was my second time taking Developers Institute (DI) part time bootcamp. I had taken the Python track and now I have just finished the JavaScript one.
My overall experience with DI was and continues to be a very warm and great one. I came in knowing very basic html CSS language and now I have created many full stack web apps.
The management is always looking out to help and constantly checking you process to see how you are doing and if your following along the course. Also very approachable.
In the JS track the course director (Lise) scheduled a meeting with me twice over my 24 weeks just to check up to see how everything is going and how I am enjoying the course and I understanding the material. If there were any issues to reach out.
Our TA (Adane) every week would mark our HW and would make sure we are up to date Giving positive feedback. He would also make himself very approachable and if there were times that I fell behind he would always reach telling me if you need any help to reach out. To the extent that during my Final Project I saw he was online so I messaged him on slack at 11 pm after being stuck on a bug for a long time to get some help. And he met with me for 20 min trying to help me fix the issue I had. The staff is very dedicated to making sure you understand the material and wanting to help you have a positive experience in their school.
Our Teachers (Ziv, Dan) were also very good. Patient, Clear, and would give very practical examples to in a concise manor on how to achieve practical things that will help in many other areas of coding. They encouraged questions and material to be clarified. If something wasn't clear or seemed it wasn't understood by the class they would make sure that EVERYONE understood the material and even give demonstrations in another case to bring out the point. Many times after class they would stay behind in order to help a student with a concept or with a piece of code to debug.
In one class, the class as a whole felt that we were moving to fast and weren't really grasping many concepts. And it was very frustrating. We reached out to Avner one of the heads of DI. Not only did he validate our feelings he gave us an extra review, week in order go over with the teacher and ask questions over old concepts. Which costed the school an extra week of the course. Because of that review I got a much deeper understanding of loops and nested loops which I am using today.
As an Alumni of DI, our careers coach (Anna) has been very helpful in helping me find an internship as she has been working to help me without me even knowing and I am very grateful!

Overall, I felt very taken care of and always enjoyed coming to class.