Le Wagon

Though I have not inherited any of the technical talents that my parents seemed to possess, it was time for me to venture into a new field. As a linguistics and culture studies university graduate with over three years of experience in sales and recruiting in a foreign country, I did not expect myself to excel at coding at all. When the pandemic hit, my job at the time was unstable and I had to re-educate myself to change my career. 
Coding is as stable as a career as they come, so I wanted to make sure I could learn at a decent pace, but still challenge myself enough to feel accomplished. Through the Ruby foundations class that was free, I got a good look at what learning coding at LeWagon would be like, and the incredible patience of the teacher and the consultation I got before signing up really sold me on the class. The class itself consists of watching lectures (often online at home), trying to learn the content by yourself first, and then solving challenges with a buddy in class; you can always ask a teacher for help. There will be live coding assisted by the teachers most days, and specific projects to work on as well. Your time at LeWagon will certainly test your ability to self-study, frustration tolerance (when your code is not working for some reason, even though you thought you did it the exact same way as the teacher), and the way you solve problems.The alumni network, the online library with all the classes, webinars, and tutorials that are available for the rest of your life are certainly some of the first addresses that I turn to, whenever I have a question, or want to learn something new.
The LeWagon class is a great way to start a new career in IT, specifically looking at Web Development. I myself even got a job at a Software Intelligence company! The way I was taught to code actually gave me an advantage in the interviews. LeWagon not only teaches the material, but also how to read technical documentation, how to google for stuff, and how to strategically solve any problem you might have on your own. That was huge and left a good impression on my interviewers.Though it was certainly tough at times and I am sure I have asked a million dumb questions, the teachers were usually patient and explained the content well. Some were even available after hours and provide almost instant support, especially during the project weeks. Even with all this support though, sometimes, you will be frustrated. Some things you won’t understand straight away, and some challenges, you might not solve on your own, and you will have to persevere and keep going. This is certainly not made for people who tend to stay in their comfort zone and shy away from challenges. All in all, I can recommend this bootcamp for anyone who might doubt their own technical talents, who likes taking baby steps, and really understand the depth of the material they are digging into. This will be a challenge, but if you work hard and give yourself a chance, LeWagon might just open up the doors for you to change the course of your life. Read less

I had been wanting to change careers and become a web developer for a while, and I finally ended up choosing Le Wagon to kickstart this journey. I am really glad I did! Sure, I could have learned by myself - there are really great resources online, that is true! But Le Wagon uses a very specific learning process that really ensures we absorb and apply the knowledge in an optimal way via their own platform, challenges and projects. And that’s not counting all the skills we acquire that are necessary in a developer position, outside of just programming language skills, such as learning how to learn (so important!), working together as a team, version control with Git, product design with Figma, Agile methodologies, writing user stories, prioritizing features for an MVP, etc. On top of that, Le Wagon Montréal counts on an amazing team and I am glad to now be part of that international community! I am super excited to start my new job as a full stack developer.  Read less

After 7 years of experience in web project management, I wanted to enrich my functional profile through the acquisition of real technical skills. That's why I joined Le Wagon to train as a FullStack Web Developer.
My first idea was therefore to enrich my technical skills and thus have an expertise in web project management, both on a functional and technical level. But after 9 weeks of bootcamp and two projects developed in a team, I discovered a new passion. The full-time training is very intensive. But it is also very rich in terms of learning and on a human level. You get into the rhythm very quickly and eventually the time passes so quickly that you feel nostalgic before the end of the course.
I spent 9 amazing weeks, the training in general is very well organised and the staff is very competent and educational. I recommend this experience to anyone who wants to learn. Read less

I just graduated from Le Wagon web development bootcamp and I feel very excited for the future.I learnt so much in such a short time about backend and frontend languages of course but also on how to work more efficiently as a team on a project for example.After working for 10 years in the tech industry on the business side, I feel the bootcamp gave me the skills to upgrade my career.I am thankful for the journey and happy to join the Le Wagon community. Read less

I attended Le Wagon #550 in Paris (March 2021). It was a great experience. The boot camp is very intense and teaches you all you need to launch a tech product or start a career as a developer. I would recommend it any day. Not only does it teach you the necessary programming skills, front and back end, but it also opens the door to all the Le Wagon online resources and community. Definitely worth your time and investment if you consider learning web development. Read less

I underwent the 6 month part time full stack web development bootcamp in Singapore and never looked back. The course was very extensive and required us to cram a lot into the 6 months, but we all emerged as better coders. It was a truly immersive experience with pitch nights and demo days to bring concepts and products to life - if anything it was TOO much excitement in the times of COVID. Post the course completion, Le Wagon also went through the trouble of arranging career talks and invited external guest speakers to come down and share their experiences, making sure that we had everything we needed in order to make the next move in our careers.

In all, choosing to learn how to code was one of the best decisions I made in the stagnant year of 2020. It was such an amazing experience learning how to code alongside other determined professionals, and though the journey was tough, my excellent teachers Prima, Miguel and Ann always made sure that I walked out of class learning just a little bit more. Would definitely recommend as a place to go in a heartbeat to anyone who's considering learning how to code.

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The total experience was a success! 
The course is very well organized and I think it's very complete. Fully accompanied from the first moment, all the staff ready to help you. A course with a lot of good vibes! Highly recommended if you have the opportunity to do so. Read less

Before Le Wagon I had tried many time to learn by myself how to code in order to be able to build projects as a creative outlet. Unfortunately, despite the abundance of ressources online I just didn’t know where to start and couldn’t find a program with the right structure for me to learn by myself. Additionally, keeping myself motivated enough to keep learning by myself proved to be difficult.Le Wagon helped address all theses issues. The program is perfectly structured to gain a thorough understanding of the fundamentals before building on more advanced topics and sets you up to be able to build on that foundation at your own pace later on. Additionally, I found the blend of lectures and practice allowed me to really challenge and validate my understanding before moving on.However, the best thing about the program remains the people, both students and teachers. Le Wagon built such a wonderful community that makes the experience enjoyable and motivating. Learning alongside such driven individuals made me want to give it my best and fostered an amazing atmosphere to keep us motivated and excited for the duration of the program. Being able to count on your peers and mutually contribute to our learning experience is of immense value.Overall I couldn’t be more proud of what I accomplished over these last few months. I met amazing people and learn exciting new skills which I look forward to push further as I begin working on new projects.Thank you for an amazing 6 months! Read less

I chose Le Wagon because it was recommended to me by 2 friends that had done it a couple of years back. It was super demanding (as you can expect for a coding bootcamp) but it was the best decision I made. The level of organisation and support was everything I was missing when learning by myself. From day 1 you are able to access the entire curriculum, slides, resources, exercises and videos you are going to use during the course. The teachers are available at all times to answer your questions and you get to meet and work with a group of people that are going through the same process as you. Last but not least, you get to join a 10K+ global community, where you can always connect with new people. Read less

 I did Le Wagon Singapore in 2020/2020 and the bootcamp was amazing as a comprehensive overview of how the an app works end to end and sets a fantastic base to explore any areas of programming that you will be more interested in.

Big thanks to Miguel, Prima and Ann for an amazing journey and it was incredible seeing paper ideas become actual products across Ad Tech, Ed Tech and Social enterprise platforms. Excited for what's to come!  Read less

 I want to take my chance to say thank you to Le Wagon Singapore. My decision to go there to learn how to code is one of the best choices I’ve ever made. I joined part time course for the last six months. The experience was amazing! And the real stars are incredible teachers who always there to help and support. They made sure that the material was well understood and never missed a chance to double check on how are we doing during challenges completion.
Now, after 24 weeks I am not sure if I am going to become a developer, but these weeks definitely changed my life. I will suggest to everyone who ever thought about learning how to code to choose Le Wagon without any hesitation. This school will give you much more than just code understanding but new friends and the greatest community :) Read less

I chose this bootcamp to launch a  new career. And I really liked it !
Le Wagon offers full-time(9weeks) and part-time courses(24weeks).
Le wagon provides you a very good kitt, with videos, tutorials, slides, source code, cheatsheets, etc, that will lead you from 0 to a Ruby on rails  project deployed on a server .
Steps:
  1) Exercices with "complex"Ruby challenges, being familiar with Github. 
  2) db schema design and sql. 
  3) Object-oriented programming. 
  4) Frontend with html, css, bootstrap, and javascript. 
  5)Use of Ruby on Rails, the powerful MVC framework(Model-View-Controller).Authentication,Authorization, building APIS, Deployment on Heroku,testing and many more things will be observed.
  6) 2  projects: a clone of airbnb and  a personal  project.

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I attended Le Wagon Melbourne in late 2020. Just wanted to share my experience in case anyone else is considering learning how to code through this bootcamp. Overall, I had a really wonderful experience. As someone who had almost no experience with coding, I'm very satisified with what I was able to learn in just 9 weeks. A large part of this has to do with the course structure. The content progresses in a very thoughtful way - every day builds upon the previous one enough to challenge you (and you will be challenged!), but not enough to make you feel completety lost. The bootcamp has a way of showing you how to do things the "hard way" first, before revealing the short-cuts or "easy way" of accomplishing something. While I found it a little bit frustrating at the time, this technique helped me to deeply understand what was going on behind the scenes. 

Looking back, I was given a very solid foundation in understanding the fundamentals of programming, and how to tackle difficult problems, instead of just learning short-cuts to build a flashing product. Once you finish, you'll probably be applying for junior developer roles and a big part of those applications are coding challenges. In my experience, these challenges became very manageble after the bootcamp - but would have been impossible for me before!

Besides the content, the Le Wagon team in Melbourne are fantastic. They really take care in selecting friendly, accepting and genuine people. I've made so many friends through my batch, the teachers, and even wider alumni network in Melbourne. The company is really big on community and hosts many events and meet-ups both during and post-bootcamp. If finding like-minded people and networking is important to you I'd definitely recommend Le Wagon! Read less

My main goal to join Le Wagon was to learn more about programming to better communicate with our in-house developers. However, after joining the program I realized there was much more to it than just learning how to code. All the other students and especially the teachers brought amazing energy each day and really gave motivation me do learn and work as hard as I could during class and in between.
Thanks to the part time class I was able to attend the course without too much disruption of my normal work life and while it wasn't always easy to do both at the same time, I would definitely do it again. Read less

This was an amazing journey! With knowledge of web development, I wanted to specialize in Data Science. After trying to learn on my own I enrolled at Le Wagon. It was an amazing decision. The program is fast-paced but so exciting! The curriculum is built such as you are never lost. The staff is always there to help you when you get stuck! We've learned so much in such a short period of time.
I would recommend the Le Wagon Bootcamp to anyone who is wanting a change of career, looking to upskill themselves or simply wanting a challenge.
When you enter Le Wagon you enter an entire community you can rely on!

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I joined Le Wagon with a view to change my career as the events industry has been suffering a lot this last year. Technology has been disrupting so many industries so I wanted to use my creativity to find a place in the world of technology.

Having never coded before I was a little nervous and apprehensive to start this new journey. I had tried to do another Bootcamp before but it was a lot less hours (Around 90) and the teacher was not supportive/ didn’t offer 1-2-1 help as promised outside of the lecture. After being severely disappointed I decided to take the plunge with LE WAGON as the lessons would be in person (instead of Zoom) and so I could ask the teacher directly about anything I wanted clarifying or assistance on.

Charlotte the driver is very friendly and gives off an infectious energy, making you feel welcome and at home. This was especially nice for our students who had flown over from abroad and away from their families.

Rayan was a very calm teacher and helpful at giving suggestions, instead of giving you the answers straight away. This was good because he really wanted you to think about things until you reached that ‘lightbulb moment’ of understanding.

Tariq is very enthusiastic and pushes you to find your way. It’s a challenging process and you do have to give it all you have. He was especially helpful when using diagrams to visually demonstrate concepts to make them easier to understand.

It’s crazy how much you learn in just 9 weeks! I enjoyed meeting everyone and learning how to work with all different people. Patience and respecting others contributions is very important. The group project at the end is a joint effort and a little piece of all of you go into it which is why it’s successful :)

Please feel free to reach out to the school directly and its alumni. We are always happy to talk you through the good and the challenges we found along the way.

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As a complete beginner I would never have imagine reaching the level at which I am at now. In fact, my experience at Le Wagon was more than just hardships and challenges but rather a social and inspiring bootcamp where the learnings calls for fraternity and cooperation.
I am not a born computer programmer but I’ve grasped the fundamentals. I am not especially interested in becoming a programmer but I am now able to understand the functioning of a website as well as its features.  Finally, I am not the smartest learner but the practice tools, methodology and teaching is flawless.
My two months at Le Wagon’s facility was like taking a fresh bowl of pure air, totally disregarding this unsettling period Read less

I attended the part-time course over the last six months at Le Wagon Buenos Aires. The overall experience was great! Teachers and all the staff are brilliant and supportive, always there to help during the hard times. I highly recommend studying at Le Wagon Buenos Aires. Read less

Le Wagon is the best choice that I have ever made in my life until now with my career. I was scared, with thousands of doubts with the program and with myself. Would i be able to make it? I had studied Tourism, I definitely not came from this world. But finally I had decided to get on board. 
From the very first moment I had the support from the teachers, from my batch, and from all the material that they give to you from the beginning.
When we finished the campus, we could not believe all we have done, from where we have started and how we finished developing two amazing apps all by ourself. Almost 2 months of that, I am now making my firsts steps as Frontend dev in a very important company. I cant believe it, this is just the beginning! If you are in doubt, just do it, it depends on you to change your life and learn to code. :) Read less

I did Le Wagon's Data Science full-time bootcamp in Buenos Aires and I enjoyed every minute of it. The course material was updated and super interesting. The teachers where expert professionals who shared with us real life examples with every topic. Le Wagon has a strong global community that can open up opportunities in different cities.  Read less