Flatiron School Reviews
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Mor Kenane
Prep Course Review
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I has zero experience coding when I started Flatiron's bootcamp prep course - their course is designed for beginners but is still challenging and pushes students to learn, not memorize patterns. Their lessons are clear and thorough, and give you all the tools and resources you need to be succesful as a student. If you get stuck on a problem they have a live chat support with more advanced students/instructors who can help or teach you how to debug your code - This system is by far the most helpful & responsive online community I have ever been a part of - never waited for more than 2 minutes and always got my questions answered in a constructive way - they don't just give you the answer, they teach you how to solve the problem so that you can debug similiar issues in the future on your own. PLUS there are people available 8am to midnight every day, which was amazing.
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Kenneth Lehr
Bootcamp Prep Course Review
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Overall, I found the Bootcamp Prep Coures Prep to be extremely helpful in learning the fundamentals of Javascript and Ruby. I felt the course was structured well, with the labs building upon the knowledge earned from previous readings. I would strongly recommend it to anyone thinking of applying to the Immersive/Online courses.
I would also recommend it to anyone that is just trying to introduce themselves to the world of coding, as the prep starts from the absolute basics.
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Victoria
Well-designed online prep course and excellent admissions process
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I will be joining Flatiron's software engineering immersive program in a couple months, and I'm very excited to be starting with them! While I only had a taste of the online prep course through their admissions process, the modules that I completed are all very well designed. The online platform/Learn IDE is intuitive and easy to use. Concepts are explained nicely, and support is readily available if needed. If you are thinking of applying, I encourage you to do so. Flatiron's admission process consists of a personal interview and a technical interview, both of which were fun and incredibly engaging! Based off the admissions process alone, it is clear that Flatiron places an emphasis on both a great curriculum and a great community.
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B.
Bootcamp Prep Course
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While applying to several top bootcamps in New York, I quickly began preparing for the technical interviews. After going through the basic codecademy tracks, I fully immersed myself in Flatiron School's prep course which was what helped me ace all three of my technical interviews. After all, I decided to go with Flatiron School partly because of their awesome learning platform and the rigorous curriculum of their software engineer program.
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Tim
Flatiron Works
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I am a recent graduate of Flatiron School, and I am proof that it works. After 15 weeks of education and training without any previous experience, I landed a job (2 months post graduation) in which I feel comfortable and competent and able to contribute. Flatiron can't teach you EVERYTHING, and, thus, I still have much to learn about professionally coding, but they prepared me exactly as they said they would, and I have a job because of it. If you are dedicated and committed to learning, studying, falling, getting back up, and continuing to push yourself to learn this craft, you will do just fine, and while I know that the money can be preclusive for many people, they offer lots of scholarships and financing options that make it viable for almost anyone.
Flatiron, as an organzation, cares to the nth degree about their students' success and the promise they make to them about finding employment after graduation. They definitely push quality of instruction/curriculum over quantity of students cranked out and are thriving because of it. The curriculum is strong and ever evolving to keep up with the changes in the industry, and the programming fundamentals that you learn are top notch. I will be forever grateful for Avi, Adam, Joe, and the entire staff for helping me pivot my professional life and try something new.
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Lidian
Great!
I took the prep-course and everything was great, especially the assistance that I received from the instructors.Thank you.
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Neil Steiner
Good Experience
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I found the program to be really great. I think it fostered a great environment of a group of students all working very hard and helping one another in what made for a strong learning environment. Also the career coach was great.
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M K
Flatiron's Bootcamp Prep Course - good intro to the course
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Solid course to gauge multiple factors. Those would be course content, teaching style, personal ability, and interest in development.
The prep course gives you an outline as to what you would receive as an education from Flatiron. You get a chance to examine what the quality of the content would be and how it would be taught. You get to experiance real coding at your own pace. With the Learn IDE environment you don't need to spend hours setting up your own envoirnment, one is provided for you. It takes me longer to install ubuntu and get everything going on my own machine, but the Learn IDE was a simple install, instantly you are conected to Flatiron's servers where you code from.
Working on the prep course can help you gauge your own ability. Do I need to work on the basics a bit more? Is programming right for me? Do I even like this? All for free! During weekdays, if I had a question, communiy members or staff would respond on the sites built in chat usually within an hour or less!
My own recommnedation is to take a chance. You can always uninstall the IDE if you aren't interested. But you might find you like like the interactive environement, the interesting topic videos, and the nice online community that is provided. The course really swayed the opionon on whether I wanted to do a bootcamp or not.
After taking the course, I chose to attend Flatiron. The application and interview process was pretty painless, Place info into webpage, and arrange for 2 skype interviews. One for personability, the other for technical ability. After investing so many hours in the prep course I was pretty confident during the interviews, that 1: I wanted to be there, 2: I could do the work. I haven't started yet, but am thrilled to be going.
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Pooja
Top-notch Bootcamp Prep
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Flatiron's Bootcamp Prep course gave students a comprehensive overview of the browser tools and Javascript. The labs were challenging but tightly connected to their corresponding lessons, which clearly explained topics for beginners. The best part about taking this (free!) course is the direct flow of communication between students and TAs. There's almost always (if not always) TAs online that address questions that students post in the chatroom. Fast response time, and if the issue isn't clearned out after some time, the TAs happily help you out over video chat. They've done such a great job creating a stimulating, supportive environment for us!
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Zenia Villa
Worth it
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When I decided to attend a bootcamp, I had my heart set on Hack Reactor because I had read over and over that it was the Harvard of bootcamps. The thing about bootcamps like Hack Reactor is they have impressive job outcomes because they're extremely selective; they only accept students who could already get a great job without the program, e.g., PhDs, Ivy Leaguers, exceptional coders. In case you're reading this and can't decide on a school, I hope that steers you in the right direction.
Now on to my wonderful experience at Flatiron. I did the web immersive program and was able to finish in 5 1/2 months. I learned Ruby, Rails, JS, and React, which are extremely relevant today. The course material is very well written. It's not at all dry or tedious like other online classes tend to be. The lectures are very easy to watch and the instructors are very passionate about what they do, which comes across in their videos/chats. The other valuable thing you'll get from Flatiron is a comprehensive guide on how to make yourself marketable to potential employers. That comes in the form of course material and a career coach.
Don't expect the school to do all the work and find you a job. Like anything in life, you have to put the work in. Although, they do have recruiters connecting grads with hiring managers from startups to major companies.
I accepted an offer about three months after I graduated. I'm currently a Software Engineer Apprentice with IBM. The team I work with uses Rails, which has been easy to transition into with what I learned at Flatiron.
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Anna
Review for Bootcamp
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I searched around the internet quite a bit and did several months of self-learning online and this was the best course I came across. What made it different from the others is the amount of live support. Not only are you connected to fellow coders going through the same thing as you, but there is a help chat which often led to one on one instruction no matter what time of day or day of the week. That was a game changer for me. I cannot recommend the bootcamp enough!
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Chris
Online Bootcamp Prep Review
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Flatiron's bootcamp prep course runs on an amazing platform. Questions will inevitably come up as you complete the labs but the support network is unrivaled. A Flatiron technical coach will respond to your question in a matter of seconds and they are often able to spend ~20 minutes with you via screen share to answer any questions. It's a great free resource to help prepare for bootcamp applications.
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racquel
Great Experience would highly recommend!!
Great staff who are always willing to help/ super friendly. Its hard to believe that one can learn how to program in only a few months but its possible at Flatiron!! Everything was amazing, even down to their career services program. Overall experience 10/10
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Allen
Did What I Set Out to Do
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What I liked:
- Great community, and great support from the fellow students
- Frequent study groups, help sessions, gripe sessions.
- The material, for the most part, was very well taught. The material was difficult, but overall they did a very good job
- I got a $65K Full-Stack Developer Job within 3 weeks of graduating. Mission complete!
- Their classes (for the most part) are easy to navigate, easy to read and understand, and I am very grateful for all of the labs which really helped cement what they taught.
What I did not like:
- They don't tell you this in the beginning, but the course is designed solely for Mac users. They use gems, etc that DO NOT work on PC, without a lot of troubleshooting (no help from their staff). I even had an upper level staffmember tell me I needed to install IOS on my machine to continue.
- Their IDE software, which I was told was necessary, is full of bugs. Get ready for lost work, screen freezes, long load times, and failure to run.
- Their Website is also full of bugs; a suprising amount, for a course on web development.
- Their career support... the template they tell you to use for your resume is in Powerpoint format. Not Word, not PDF... Powerpoint. Their staff often cancelled after we were supposed to meet.
- Worst of all, they outsourced their technical interview to a company called "Skilled Inc", which is the WORST company I have ever had the pleasure of not working with. They're rude, disrespectful, messed up on their scheduling, blamed me, and ran off with their money. I hope Flatiron drops them like a brick.
- Especially later in the course, the material is less coherent, the support from staff is negligible, and they expect you to understand principles for the final portfolio project that they didn't cover in any of their coursework.
Overall, I am SUPER happy and grateful for what they taught me, and that I was able to get a solid job shortly after graduating. We accomplished what I hoped we would. The job market is exceptional, and I am glad I decided to sign up with Flatiron. That being said, there were quite a few caveats that prevent me from whole-heartedly recommending the program.
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Oleg Chursin
Amazing Support // Great Platform
Well-designed and built online platform with tons of features and instant peer-to-peer support. Truly life-changing experience.
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Maurice Roy
Great Bootcamp prep course!
I've looked at a few different coding bootcamps & tried out their introductory learning material, but I definitely wish I had started with Flatiron's. Their bootcamp prep course is an amazing place to start & really lays everything out in an easy to approach way. I would recommend it to anyone looking to get started in coding.
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Eric Kollegger
Solid foundational bootcamp prep
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I found Flatiron school's prep work to be a comprehensive, easy to digest and streamlined experience. Even coming from a background of intermediate web development experience, the labs re-solidified many concepts and I even learned some fundamentals I had missed through my self-teaching efforts in the past! There's an integrated IDE so you're actually working in one of the most popular text editors and a very responsive community of other students/staff to help each other out if you get stuck on an exercise. I've been accepted to the upcoming November cohort but if the quality of the prep work is any indication of the course I'm confident it's going to be great. Highly recommend for those new to programming or even if you're just looking to freshen up on the basics.
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Ethan R. Roberts
Bootcamp and Bootcamp Prep
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Having never coded before starting my application process to Flatiron I was incredibly nervous to start and worried that I wouldn’t even get in.
I worked on the Free Online Bootcamp Prep Course from April-May 2017. I found it to be incredibly accessible and expertly written for someone like myself with little to no knowledge or experience.
I applied in early May and was amazingly accepted to the in-person immersive program in NYC from June-October 2017. Having recently graduated, I can strongly say that this was the best and most comprehensive and rewarding experience of my life. The friendship and support I found within those walls have left me confident and ready for the real world ahead of me in my new career.
I would recommend this opportunity to anyone whose passion for code is as strong as their will to become the best that they can be.
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Will
A fantastic bootcamp
An excellent, constructive environment in which beginners can learn to code with the guidance they need, while developing the skills to continue their education on their own after the bootcamp is over. I haven't started looking for a job yet as I am taking some time to study independently before searching, but I am not worried the slightest. Flatiron prepared me well. -
Josh Stillman
Bootcamp prep - a great intro to coding
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Flatiron's online bootcamp prep course is a great way to get your feet wet with coding and see if it's for you. It also gives you a good idea of Flatiron's pedagogy and culture. The lessons are very well paced and engaging. Flatiron keeps it interesting with fresh challenges and a reassuring dose of humor throughout. I liked how the bootcamp prep course made use of the concept of "test-driven development", which provides instant feedback on your code and gives you a massive sense of accomplishment when you get the tests to pass. The IDE is also a great feature, since you'll be coding in a real coding environment on your computer and getting the feel for it. Also, the ability to ask for help from an instructor and/or fellow students at any time was really great. In sum, I really recommend it. And it's free! -
Tania Aparicio
Great learning environment!
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I just started in the Online Web Developer Program a couple weeks ago, and my expirience has been fantastic. They give you all the tools you need to be succesful in the labs. The lectures are full of great examples based on pop culture (which is amazing!) and the tutors are available all the time and they are always eager to help. If you are stuck in something or you just want someone to take a look of your code you can always ask for a screenshare, which is very helpful. The majority of the lectures (in order to complement your learning) include links to other pages and/or videos where Avi (one of the co-founder of the school, and a great teacher) gives you the lecture. In addition, we have a Slack community, where you can connect with other students, read their experience with code and share yours. There are study groups based on the Curriculum, but if there is something you really need help with you can always ask for a 1:1 with an instructor or better you can create your own study grup so other students with the same questions can join it :) ... The most wonderful thing that I have found here is that students and instructors are always there for you, that you can ask anything and they will understand you and always try to help you. It is a supportive learning environment.
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Matt H
Future Student
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Having tried out a few online prep courses to see which was the best fit for me, I can say Flatiron School's stood out, so much so that I'm now enrolled in their online Web Development program (starting in November). The instruction and help I received was quick and clear, the labs they've created engaging, and the coursework kept learning interesting. I'm excited to be a full time student in the coming months.
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Jenn
Comprehensive Bootcamp Prep
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I tried multiple tools before stumbling upon Flatiron School's Bootcamp Prep course. Finally, I had found not only great a beginner curriculum but one that utitilized a community to help students and a program that used an IDE which submitted my work to Github.
Not only did the Bootcamp Prep help me feel more comfortable with the fundamentals but it provided features such as "Ask A Question" where you can work with other (frequently more advanced) students to solve problems you are struggling with.
The Bootcamp Prep also prepared me for the Bootcamp application process. I can happily say that after I completed most of the JavaScript Fundamentals and went through Flatiron's standard interview process I obtained a spot in an upcoming in-person immersive Web Development class at Flatiron's NYC campus.
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Annette Drapalski
Flatiron at your own pace...
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As I write this I still have 15% of the Flatiron Bootcamp to complete and I have already been successful in securing my first Web Development job!!!
Flatiron is an amazing place to do your Fullstack Web Development training. They have a FREE pre-bootcamp course that will allow you to see if Flatiron is a fit for you, plus if you do it you will already have completed part of the full Bootcamp! Everything about the pre-bootcamp course reflects exactly how the Bootcamp will be:
- You use the same ide
- You get an amazing curriculum that prepares you for the Bootcamp
- You get to ask questions of the Flatiron experts
- You run your code against tests
I am in regional Australia so was looking for a bootcamp that would work in my time zone; I didn't want to be working through the night to attend online lectures. Additionally, I didn't want to be tied to a timeframe to finish the course. Flatiron ticked all the boxes.
An added incentive for you fast learners out there, Flatiron charges by the month, so the quicker you get through the course the less it costs you. This also means that you don't have to come up with the full tuition up front!
As I am outside the USA the job guarantee didn't apply, but that would have been the same wherever I went. Regardless of where you live thought you are assigned a Career Coach about 75% of the way through your course. The Career Coach assists with your resume, networking skills, linterviewing techniques, elevator pitch, and so on and is an invaluable support.
There are opportunities to create and lead study groups and you can always jump in to answer someones question instead of a Flatiron expert. One of my bootcamp friends in Israel is now working remotely as one of Flatiron's learn experts, another career option available through the Flatiron course for people demonstrating a love of mentoring and teaching.
The coursework is comprehensive and well planned and presented. There are a miriad of video lectures that are really helpful when you are stuck on a topic. Many of the lectures are done by Avi Flombaum, one of the school's founders and he is amazing, a wealth of knowledge and experience with the ability to clearly show you how to do things.
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Elli
Great bootcamp prep course
Flatiron's free bootcamp prep is a great tool that introduces coding to beginners. The courses are easy to follow and the access you have to the instructors as well as other students working on the prep course really helps. I definitely recommend anyone interested in learning code to take advantage of the free prep course.
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Kelsey Huse
No regrets - amazing experience
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A year ago I was dipping my toe into the world of web development but felt like I was getting nowhere. I did Code Academy and Coursera courses and felt I understood the logic behind programming but had zero confidence in my ability to actually create something. Then I found Flatiron School, completed their online full stack program, and have not only the skills to create whatever I can imagine, but the confidence needed to figure out what I don't know. The online community is great, someone is always there to help. My only criticism of the program is that the React/Redux curriculum could use improvement. I had to use a couple other resources (Udemy, Full Stack React/Redux book) to complete that section. I am now a Javascript developer for a startup and very happy with how Flatiron has changed my life!
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Jake
Bootcamp Prep
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I did the Flatiron School's Bootcamp Prep course. It is a remarkable tool for introducing the fundamentals of JavaScript and Ruby. THe course is consists of lessons on their website and coding labs on the Learn IDE. As you learn the basic concepts like data types, functions, working with arrays and objects, and looping, you also solidify the fundamentals that you will use to build a Rock Dodger game in JavaScript and a command-line tic-tac-toe game in Ruby at the end of the course. There are instructors and many, many other students that are available to help you if you ever get stuck in a lab. You can chat with instructors and other students easily on their messaging service at the bottom-right corner of their web page.
The program did wonders for me this summer. I have already recommended it to a couple friends are interested in learning more about coding.
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Eric
Flatiron School Bootcamp Prep
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I've done parts of the bootcamp prep, and it already shows how much the tools help for coding. It's worth the time to look into and it can take you far in your coding path. The best thing about the prep course and in general is the "ask a question" button. There will always be someone on the other end willing to help you. If you need more help, they will set up a live voice/video chat to help you further understand. I wouldn't have gotten on the online web-developer program without it.
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Fabiano Cunha
Is Flatiron Prep-Bootcamp worth taking?
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First a little background history, I just turned 38, this August , and I've been working in construction for the past 19 years. I used to work with computers in my teens (had my own computer school and repair shop back in Brazil along with two other friends, we were all teenagers at the time). I loved programming but life circumstances, and my own decisions made me put that on the back burner. I tried to go back to it, a few times, but with kids and family, it was a little difficult.
I was always good learning things on my own, that being computer related in my teens or the construction trade, later on, I was eager to learn anything, and often succeed.
Now the years were catching up, college tuition for my children will be coming soon, and my desire to make a change was growing harder and harder (along with my wife's shakes on, of course). I then started to take some online courses, reading some books, but I wasn't getting the results I wanted. The reason why was that it was always a side thought, no real commitment. In my work, whenever I wanted to do something unfamiliar, I would read, watch some tutorials, talk with some people, try it out a few hundred times and then apply it to my work, it always worked, but the same principle was not being applied to my studies.
Here comes the realization, in order for me to accomplish what I wanted, I would have to apply the same principles that I always used, give it full focus, bring it to the front burner.
I then decided to burn the boats, quit the job and dedicate myself fully to accomplish what I wanted, before that I did research all my options, going back to college (no viable way too expensive and too long), learning online (tried, but studying home was not working, if I were around was always the pick up the kids, pick up the groceries, can you fix this, can you fix that, paint here, paint there.), so boot camp seemed to be the holy grail (not without the cons, it was expensive, but not like a 4 year degree. Employers and industry still have reservations against it, and the thought of learning in 3 months with CS graduates would take 4 years seemed too good to be true. Well, after reading a ton of reviews, a set my eyes on 4 Bootcamps, I planned to apply and visit all four before a made a commitment. I then spoke with someone who used to recruit from one of the Bootcamps on the list but wasn't working there anymore, and he gave me fresh insight and recommended different schools, one being Flatiron School, his reasoning were that Flatiron was still a small school focused on high quality, and integration of students to the work force, at first I did not consider it because of the curriculum, they were still teaching Ruby, where most others schools were going away from it, but with a fresh insight (most graduates end up not working with the schools curriculum languages, anyway, they are just languages to teach you the concepts, and when you got the concepts you could pick up other languages easily, and the more exposure to different languages you had the easier it would become to learn new ones.), upon visiting its website, I enrolled in the Bootcamps Prep (which was free), and would give me a curriculum to follow, so I could apply for the Bootcamps.
The Bootcamps Prep course is all online using the Learn.co, which gives you some bite-sized concepts and is followed by some exercises and labs, much like other online programs (Udacity, Code Academy, etc...) the main difference being that much of the concepts were all text, almost no videos, unlike Udacity, and it was not much detailed, but on the bottom of every lesson they always included some resource materials, to look at. The way I approached it was, like a roadmap, I would go over the lesson, read the extra resources, would go to Code Academy, do some lessons there, try them out on the Learn IDE, and continue with the curriculum. It seemed a bit counter-intuitive at the beginning, but soon I realized that it was the right approach. It instilled the curiosity, and self-reliance from the beginning, help was always around the corner when needed, they have the Ask a question section where you could ask for help when solving a lab, which I try not to use much, trying to rely mostly on myself, but when I needed, they were there to help me out (sometimes other students would give you a hand, if they couldn't the instructors were always available to help out.) One important feature of the Ask a question is that you could not only ask a question but you could also answer questions asked, by other students. And on that front I tried to do as much as I could, as they say in their program, you know when you learned something only when you're able to teach it to someone else.
The Bootcamps Prep curriculum includes
HTML Fundamentals
Javascript Fundamentals
Ruby Fundamentals
and also had a section for the Interview Prep and Technical Interviewing
HTML and CSS were very superficial, I felt I needed to do a lot of self-studying besides their labs (I took the Code Academy HTML and CSS, and read the Murach5/CSS3 book while doing it.
Javascript was more challenging, but I completed in the curriculum mostly by itself with only a few extra readings outside the Prep Course.
The Ruby Fundamentals like HTML and CSS was very superficial in terms of lessons with a few videos, but, as the name suggests it was just the Fundamentals, like variables, iterations, and scope. The Curriculum for the Ruby was very similar to the Javascript, and that reinforced the notion of learning the concepts once and apply it to different languages. Basically, I took more time learning Javascript but when Ruby came, most of the concepts were the same and I could just apply the new syntax and obtain the same results that I did when doing Javascript, in a much faster pace.
The whole program was done using the Learn.co platform along with the Learn.IDE, and on the IDE, they introduced git and tests from the beginning, in fact, the Ruby Fundamentals, were almost in its entirety revolved around tests, they would explain you the goal of the lab, you would then run the tests and write code in order to pass the tests. And that, in my opinion, was one of the highlights of the program, read the goal, run the test, research, think of a solution, write code, test it, pass, and repeat, that seems to be the way programmers go about.
I visited Flatiron school on one occasion and watched a few live webinars, the community aspect of the school is evident, they highly encourage people to mingle, and that's another pro of their program, especially when your trying to enter the field, the more people you know the better, people there are very friendly, and willing to talk to you, it was a very nice experience.
When I had completed about 70% of the track, they contacted me to enroll for the online portion, but I felt I wasn't ready yet. I finished the track in its entirety and then applied. The interview consisted of 3 parts
1 – Code Challenges
2 – Admissions Interview
3 – Technical Interview
The Code challenges were basically an extension of the Prep Track, if you had done it, it would not be difficult to pass. They give a goal, you have to run the tests and write code to pass the tests.
The Admissions interview, it's where you speak with one of the Admission counselors. The interview is done by Skype, I was interviewed by Amanda, and she was great, she made me feel at ease, she just wants to make sure you're there for the right reasons and can then succeed.
The technical interview is also through Skype, in I was a little anxious, especially since my appointment for the day was canceled, but I somehow did not receive the email. I then contacted the school, and they were able to reschedule it for the same day (had my admissions at 5:15, and technical at 5:45). So basically, you go over some of your code, the instructor then gives you a new problem and asks you to modify your code to accomplish that. Joe was my interviewer, he was great guiding me along the challenge, I felt that I unperformed, but I remember Joe saying that his biggest challenge was differentiating between anxiety and lack of knowledge, well once you end the call you realized, how naive your mistakes were, and how you could do it better.
My admissions response came in 2 days later, I was admitted, for the 10/09 class, proud, relieved and then worried. I have just one month to get ready and finish the pre-course requirements, which are expansions of the Prep Bootcamps
I ended up not applying for any other school, because I felt confident in the methodology, of Flatiron school, and also because of its student outcomes reports.
I know that if I put in the effort needed, I would succeed, could I have done it in other schools, I would think yes, but how long are you willing to go about trying to find out, there is no way to find out if it would work until you start doing the work, and the way I see it, going around tasting everything will just amount to inaction, and inaction will definitely hold you back. I'm willing to put the work, the methodology is working so far, I felt comfortable in their environment, and they felt I would fit.
I would definitely recommend Flatiron School Prep Bootcamp, to anyone thinking about becoming a Developer, just be mindful, the course is not meant to turn you into a developer, it's just a start, in my opinion, is only meant to see if you would like to become one. And if the passion is in you, you would make the best of it, because you would know what you're lacking and will try to find you, they give you the roadmap, you follow it, but doesn't mean you can't make a different stop here and there to check the landscape. Be curious, try them out, in the worst case, you know it won't be the right school for you or you won't be the right career for you., (either way, it seems that even the worst case is not bad after all).
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Liah
Great Experience in Online Immersive
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I recently finished the online immersive from Flatiron School (July 2017). I went into the program without much coding experience (just some HTML, CSS, and Javascript from Codecademy), and I had completed the Flatiron free Intro to Javascript course. I knew I wanted to go to a coding bootcamp, and I selected Flatiron for a few different reasons:
- great reputation
- full stack program
- money back job guarantee
- flexibility of at your own pace
- priced cheaper than in person immersives (also I received a 50% scholarship for Women in Code)I really enjoyed the program. I definitely had some ups and downs going through because honestly, learning a new skill is hard, and you definitely need to self motivate for an at your own pace course. I felt that I had the support I needed from the instructors, technical coaches, and Slack community when I needed it. I also feel more adept at answering my own questions through googling (a seriously important skill) because I didn't have someone next to me the entire time or the immense pressure of finishing in 3 months. Having the time flexibility gave me to opportunity to make sure I understood the material before moving on.
After the program, my career coach was very helpful. I was lucky enough to find a position after only 2 weeks of officially job hunting. My new position is with a Charleston, SC based destination marketing company building web applications for their client base. Surprisingly, my new position uses PHP for backend development, but because of my work at Flatiron, the company knows I am self motivated and a good learner. They agreed to teach me on the job. I would definitely recommend the Flatiron School's Learn.co web immersive to anyone that is self motivated and looking to learn full stack in a great community!
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Tim
Flatiron Bootcamp Prep Course
I recently completed this course to help me get ready for the interview. It's really user-friendly and after working through the lessons I felt MUCH more confident about interviewing with Flatiron and other bootcamps. It's definitely worth the time and effort.
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Robert
Bootcamp Prep Course
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Solid intro course. It does need to be run through with a fine-tooth comb by someone; theres a few spots where it's obvious something was updated/changed but a bit of text wasn't updated to reflect it, which may leave you confused, but they're usually small and quickly corrected if you ask a question about it.
Don't get discouraged if you run into a 'Wait, that was covered? I've never seen that before'. It's purposefully challenging to drop the people who won't stick with it, and the learning curve on some labs requires you to look up some new things to complete them.
Whatever you do, I reccommend doing a few different intro courses. Each one was designed by someone with a slightly different idea of whats important to explain/go over, so you'll get a better foundation that way.
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Natalie Dean
Great Bootcamp Prep Course
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I completed the Flatiron school's bootcamp prep course and am three weeks away from starting at their full time immersive in person program. I can't say for sure yet how much it prepared me for the course but I passed the technical interview for admissions!
The prep is great because they have people online all the time (even late at night and on the weekends) to help you with questions. The course uses an IDE that is easy to learn and works well.
I would truly reccommend this online prep course to anyone interested in learning more about coding or applying for a bootcamp.
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Shaw
Fantastic bootcamp prep course
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I was recently accepted to Flatiron School's on campus Web Development Immersive program. Flatiron's online bootcamp prep course was one of the tools that I used to prepare for the technical interview. Their proprietary software is known as learn.co and it is wonderful. It includes an IDE integrated into atom. There are both Javascript and Ruby tracks filled with quality content. I believe there are also basic HTML and CSS courses as well. It starts at a level that even a beginner can understand, but you can also skip ahead to where the material becomes relevant to your particular skill level. What stood out to me the most about the learn.co prep course, was the 'Ask A Question" sidebar. If at any time you become stuck on a topic or encounter a bug or error, you can use the 'Ask A Question" button to send messages that Flatiron staff as well as all other students can see. What blew me away is the availability of Flatiron staff to answer a question. The moment you pose a question someone shows up to ask how they can help you. Flatiron Schools bootcamp prep course is also entirely free. I can't speak highly enough of it, I absolutely recommend the course.
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Carolyn
Great online support
I would highly recommend the online program for people who are not local! The support you get from the online instructors is so helpful and they really care about your success.
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Sikander C.
Bootcamp Prep Course and Admissions Process
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I was recently accepted into the Web Development Immersive at the NYC campus and am super excited to be attending the program next month.
To start my story: I have been interested in learning to write code for some time, but never really found the impetus to begin my journey. I have worked a variety of jobs and have most recently found myself working in Non-Profit, while finishing up a bachelors degree in Management. I never really found true fulfillment in any of the work I was doing until I started working Non-Profit, but even there I have found that there is a certain limit to my achievement. As I am wrapping up my degree in the next few weeks, I have been pondering how I may better myself, so as to find personal fulfillment, while providing the maximum benefit to those who may be less fortunate than I.
I found out about Flatiron School while looking into bootcamps, online. Seperately, a cousin who works in tech did some research for me, about bootcamps, and connected me with the friend of a co-worker. This person actually attended a different bootcamp and did not have the best experience, but she highly recommended Flatiron School because of what she had seen from graduates of the program. The seed had been planted.
I soon signed up for Flatiron School's Online Bootcamp Prep course, which is free of charge and hosted on the 'Learn' platfrom. I began going through the tutorials on my own. Whenever I found confusion, I would ask a question, and I would find an almost immediate response from a Technical Coach or a student. I was very impressed with the level of helpfulness provided, being that it was totally free and started making some progress. A week or so into it, I got a call from Cailee at Flatiron. She asked me how it was going, what my intention was with the prep course, and if I had any questions. She then informed me about an online Q&A hosted by Adam at Flatiron, which I attended and found to be very insightful. I also read pretty much all the information on their website and took a few days to digest everything, making sure to properly reflect and reaffirm my intention for the study software engineering. I then applied for the program.
The first part of the application process was a written application. I took some time to write it up and then sent it in. A few days later, I recieved an email saying that I had been invited to the interview process! The first step was a Skype "get to know you" interview, which I had with Adam. We had a very nice conversation where he asked me about my interest and intention for the program, then he let me ask him questions about the program. Luckily, the interview was successful and I was invited to the next step in the process, the technical interview.
I was very worried about getting accepted into the program, because my knowledge of code prior to the Bootcamp Prep course was very slim, but I kept my head down and worked, and reworked, through the prep course material to prepare for the interview, which I scheduled for the next week. I had my technical interview with Tony, who asked me questions about my work on one of the labs and, thankfully, I was able to answer most of his questions (though I did have a little trouble with a more advanced question he asked me towards the end). I was very nervous leading up to, and throughout the interview, but his attitude put me at ease. He let me ask any questions I had at the end of the interview and then that was it. The interview process was over.
The next few days seemed like an eternity while I anxiously waited to hear back. A few days later, I got the email announcing my acceptance. I was ecstatic! They informed me that I needed to complete some pre-coursework, and review some documentation before attending, so that is what I am taking care of now, while wrapping up my final classes for my degree and transitioning my responsibilities at work.
Overall, my experience thus far has been greater than I would've imagined. I have already spent many hours and long nights working on the projects on the 'Learn' platform, but it has helped to develop more of a hunger in me in wanting to learn more and become fully immersed. I am very grateful for this opportunity and very excited to be attending come the end of August!
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Ryan Sperzel
The Best Way to Begin Your Coding Journey
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After completing a number of introductory coding classes, a Flatiron alum recommended I try the Bootcamp Prep course that Flatiron offers. The course was more challenging than Codecademy and Udemy since it really requires you to immediately reinforce each lesson by applying it to a mock project (which Flatiron calls labs). Unlike Hack Reactor's prep course, however, Flatiron's "Ask a Question" feature ensured there was always someone to give you a hand when you got stuck and needed a little guidance. Their "Technical Coaches" replied within a few minutes and helped me through problems without giving me the answer. Not only did this allow me to learn more in less time, but it also let me zero in on concepts I didn't completely understand and correct them before moving on to the next section.
Part of what made the course so effective (and challenging) for me was Flatiron's use of professional tools such as Github and the IDE to teach. Although it was nice when Codecademy would tell me exactly where my syntax was wrong, I found myself becoming much more efficient and detail-focused when using the Learn IDE since it forced me to search my own code for mistakes. The lessons themselves were, for the most part, thorough. There were a few instances when I had to consult Flatiron's Javascript/Ruby Fundamentals course (also free, and slightly more comprehensive than the bootcamp prep) for added explanation or clarification on a topic. There is a coding project at the end of each Intro course (one for JS and one for Ruby) which acts as a sort of cumulative test for everything you learned while allowing you to create a program of your own!
By the time I had completed the course, I felt prepared for the coding challenges and technical interviews in several bootcamps' admissions processes. I was accepted to all bootcamps I applied to, and ended up choosing Flatiron since their teaching methods were so effective and community was so helpful. I very highly recommend you try their bootcamp prep course and experience it for yourself.
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Edmund Holderbaum
Community, Perspective, Support
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I had an early introduction to coding in middle school and learned c++ up through objects in college as a Comp Sci major, but college just wasn't for me. I just wanted to learn to code! So after a brief (awful) career in IT, I decided to attend Flatiron School.
The truth is, you can learn to code anywhere. You can learn half a dozen languages, object oriented principles, even algorithms and data structures on your own. What you get at Flatiron School, and what's worth every cent of the loan I took out to pay for it, is:
1) The Community there that fosters learning, experimentation, best practices, and personal growth. I could never have done this on my own, without having other students sitting shoulder to shoulder with me going through the same thing.
2) The Perspective that one should always keep learning, always be a beginner, aim high, make it work - make it fast - make it pretty, etc. that comes from seasoned developers who are committed to getting the best out of their students.
3) The Support I got as a student and am still getting in my first job as a developer. My counselor is always on call and even though I've already graduated, she answered one of my messages about how I should update my resume while she was on vacation.
This is what Flatiron expects from you:
1) Passion and a lifelong love of creative problem solving and process learning. If you are doing this just to learn how to build an app, or just to get a job, many of the little things that make Flatiron School great will actually frustrate you.
2) Time equalling probably 60-80 hours a week in person, online I suppose you have to put in whatever time is necessary to make progress. The people who were most successful were the people who knew when to put in extra work and go above and beyond as well as when to take a break.
3) Citizenship is the only word I can use to describe this. Everyone is encouraged to participate as much as they can, to give and receive feedback, and to uphold the school's values. Flatiron is a great place because of each person who is there, not because of a process or an outcome.
I have been reccommending Flatiron School, and its online platform http://learn.co, to everyone. Friends, family, acquaintances, strangers. I'd tell my cat to try it out if she had thumbs. If they can bring an eighth of what they have in the classroom to their online course, it's miles better than those rote and impersonal MOOCs.
I'd encourage anyone who is interested and in the NYC area to visit the campus. It's the best way to get a feel for what Flatiron is all about. Attend one of the events, see the student presentations or one of the talks they host there about careers in development. That's the best way to know if it's right for you. -
James Randolph
Avoid the Online Classes
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If you're considered taking these courses, I'd like to say that you should avoid the online option entirely.
I can't speak for the in-person training, but the online courses have been a terrible experience for me over the past 6 months that I've been overpaying for the service.
An overwhelming majority of the instructors are slow to respond - not just initially, but mid-conversation as well - and are not interesting in teaching the course material. The amount of times I've been told by an instructor to Google the question I've asked them is remarkably dissapointing.
The $1500/month pricing would suggest that you'd get helpful staff, seeing as they don't need to pay for you to be in a physical classroom. Unfortunately, that has not been the case in my experience.
The online course is supposed to be an attractive option for someone like myself who is working full-time, but as there is little support and incoherent testing parameters, it's more trouble than it's worth - there are other coding bootcamps out there.
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Chirantan
Bootcamp Prep Course
The Prep course is awesome! The most amazing thing is its real world development feeling. I would strongly encourage to take this course for getting into the world of Software engineering or development. This course is really good for getting selected into any competitive coding bootcamp including Flatiron School.