I came with little knowledge of programming and this course allow me to learn in a short period of time all that I need it to start a new career, its a lot of information in so little time but it’s worth it. 

As a top business school student I had the opportunity to visit the HQs of GOOGLE, IBM, Salesforce and Microsoft. There was no visit in which they didn’t underline the importance of coding skills for the majority of positions, including sales and marketing. After this, I decided to change my fresher summer and go for the web-dev bootcamp at Ironhack.

After these almost 3 months, I can say that this is a great plan for any undergrad’s summer.

One of the first things you realize at the start is the great diversity of profiles at the bootcamps: from MBA students to entrepreneurs and freelance architects. I was one of the youngest Ironhackers but after a couple days I fell in love with and was part of this IRON-OHANA!

The core part of this Iron-Ohana and the magic ingredient of the whole experience is the staff. As an aspiring entrepreneur I admire the fantastic team they’ve created in just a couple of years. They will be your friends, advisors and life-savers during the bootcamp!

During the bootcamp I was constantly surprised by the fast progression in the field, though I’ve got to say that this is directly proportional to the level of effort you put in.

It’s tremendously hard, but it does pay off! Now in the tech courses at uni I’ve noticed a great advantage and I’m also working on developing my bootcamp’s final project.

There’s a piece of advice I’d give to every future Ironhacker: Don’t make the error of having other time-consuming activities during these weeks. Focus and you’ll go from zero to code-hero!

In just 6 months of part-time course I learned enough to land my first job as a Javascript developer and motivated me to continue study and learning new stuff. I'm thankful to Ironhack for introducing me to the IT community and changing my life.

The experience in IronHack has been the most challenging and attractive experience I have ever faced. A Bootcamp fully oriented to people who mostly has ever written a line of code, it  is also a rich experience for people like me who has worked the last two years as Full-Stack developer. The bootcamp has helped to strengthen my weak spots in JavaScript basics and asynchronous paradigm knowledge. It's true that all that knowledge could be acquired surfing the net but working on it everyday helped me to become a great web programmer. 

For other Americans out there, just come to Paris and learn to code with Ironhack. This program was incredible. I learned a lot, plus I got to spend the summer in Paris. If you hold an American passport, you are allowed to stay in France for up to 90 days, so you can attend this program without having to worry about getting a Visa.

The course itself is intense, you will learn a lot, you will probably find yourself on the verge of tears, but in the end you will achieve more than you thought possible. All of our instructors are experts and could handle any questions we threw at them. The rest of the Ironhack staff was friendly and helpful and I consider them all friends now. 

This was a Full Stack Javascript course. Prior to the course, I had a little experience with HTML and CSS, and I had failed several times to learn Javascript on my own. On day 1, I was close to a beginner. By the final day, I created a Full Stack Application that I successfully presented in front of our class and invited guests.

For me, the most unexpected positive aspect of this program was the introduction to the startup world in Paris. The organizers arranged for weekly presentations from people in every aspect of the tech scene in Paris. We listened to web developers, CTOs, founders, VCs, and attorneys. This aspect of the course was above and beyond what I was expecting when I enrolled and provided us with a context for the technical skills that we learned.

This course bootcamp was one of the hardest things that I have done in my life, but I would absolutely do it again!

I attended Ironhack Paris and it was one of the best decisions I have made. The instructors were knowledgable, accommodating, and willing to to listen and change things about the program on the fly as feedback came in from the students. It was very educational. At first I could tell it was their first time int that location but they quickly ironed out any wrinkles and addressed every issue. I definitely got my money's worth. The environment was casual but the curriculum was strict and required a lot of work to be done so you need to find a balance between how casually you will work, and how you are going to get the work done. I would love to do it again for another language such. I attended full stack Javascript so perhaps an iOS course next time.

Ironhack was an incredible experience, very intense but also very interesting. You almost live with your classmates, and you learn not only from the great masters, but from the rest of your matesand staff. What I liked the most was having the whole vision of the project, from research to prototype and test, through information architecture, visual design and agile methodologies. Highly recommended!

The bootcamp  was absolutely transforming  and I found great empathy and support with a new community of professionals  that did not exist in my life 4 months ago.

The UX tools and processes for innovation and creation we used are supreme quality.

Thanks to Wallapop Full Scholarship I had the opportunity to attend the UX / UI Bootcamp at Ironhack to keep boosting my profesional career.

It has been an amazing experience that has allowed me to meet incredible mates, super teachers and warm staff. 

Ironhack has been a life-changing experience.

I was a business controller two years ago and even though I liked numbers there was something missing, it wasn’t ringing the right bell. So I thought of what I really enjoyed and what I was good at and also what challenges I would have liked. I had some small programming knowledge related to my nerdy childhood and expanding it and making a life out if it sounded like a dream, then it became my plan. I started Ironhack with a strong will but not a final idea of what I could do with it. From day 1 it has been 360 degrees full-on experience. Every day there was an awesome tech event that I wouldn’t want to miss, technical challenges that I wanted to conquer and a bunch of like-minded people that made everything so fun and enjoyable, even the long nights before delivering the projects. I was lucky that Ironhack became my family away from home, both my colleagues, the teachers and the staff.

I was the one studying non-stop but the teachers directed my struggles in the right way, showing me how I should work and where I should focus and help me when I felt lost. I tried studying online on my own before the boot camp but I never got near an inch of the results I got out of the course. I gave it my best and I got the same in return. Ironhack taught me a lot about perseverance, and how to solve problems and code bugs in a way that I couldn’t have thought of it before. It made me push through a lot of documentation and it was just what I needed to learn and to be able to improve and learn on my own after the course. Ironhack showed me where and how the magic happens and taught me how to make some myself and I can’t wait to see just how far I’ll go from here.

Just today someone asked me to draw a graph with an X axis from 0 to my age and a Y axis with 0 to 10, where 0 was the complete worst and 10 was the best.  Then I had to draw two lines: one on my happiness level and one on my achievement level overall my life. 

When I was drawing the lines, the period I was in the bootcamp was one of the most fullfilling periods in my life, really close to 10, both in happiness and personal achievement. I had to work my ass off to get in, because it is not cheap, and I risked a lot by joining: if it failed I would have been in the shit. But it passed with flying colours. 

The stack you learn (MEAN) is really good, the materials were really good and comprehensive. The course is REALLY REALLY HARD. Very high paced, even if you have previous experience. So you'll get frustrated, tired, crazy. I would have liked to learn React more than Angular, but still it was good. Two of the teachers my cohort had were really good, and the third one was mindblowing, but we only had him for a week :( Overall, they were really good, patient and always willing to help, but they have to cover a looooooot of content in a really short time, so it is difficult for them, as they can not take the time they would like to to go over some concepts.

More than the teachers, for me the incredible part was the other students, the teacher assistants and some other people from the staff. For me, the TAs are the real heroes here. They do the grunt work, they handle our complaints, frustrations, limitations, help us with code and with handling the pressure. And the colleagues I had, I have only love for them. They were all amazing, driven, empathetic, funny people. I miss them a lot. 

At one point, a crazy CEO with a biotech startup came into my bootcamp looking for developers. I really, really wanted that job, but they were not looking for juniors. I persisted, and at some point they sent me this crazy technical test in Groovy and Grails, that I had never heard of before. I managed, and not only because of my effort, but because my friends there, the TAs and some other staff members encouraged me so much. I felt so supported and so happy. If I had tried that alone, I would have given up. So yes, I got the job one week before my final project, and here I am, in a biotech startup in London as I wanted.

And all because I was there with that big 'family', where I was able to achieve way more than I could normally achieve. They make you believe in yourself, in your abilities. Also that has a special value if you are a woman in tech. They push you a lot, the contents are too much and you think you can not manage, but you feel so comfortable that you end up managing. You grow like crazy in such a short period of time you don't even believe it was possible. 

I can not guarantee that your experience there will be as fulfilling as mine. I consider myself extremely lucky with all the amazing people that converged in my cohort. But if you don't get a community as excellent, at least the technical knowledge you'll gather will be really solid and good. You'll gain or improve the abilities of sharing, helping, communicating, dealing with frustration, solving problems. And they really help you with intros and contacts if you want them, it shouldn't be too difficult to get a job after the bootcam. I even got one before finishing the bootcamp!