Le Wagon

The Wagon is an adventure i am not ready to forget ! 9 weeks of intense work but a teaching philosophy that corresponded perfectly to what I expected. From exercises, to projects, to social events, everything is perfectly calculated to render an all around experience around code ! I particularly loved the projects weeks in which you are faced with tough time constraints for ambitious team projects, a real adrenaline booster. I came looking for skills to complement future projects and came out with a new passion. Coding is now my main activity and thanks to Le Wagon and it’s resources I am still able to learn new skills daily. I highly highly recommend ! 

I started my professional life in the ops field, in tech startups. I had the chance to discover tech jobs by talking with developers, who were always willing to share about their role. After learning SQL online, I had the opportunity to move to a Data Analyst position. It was a great experience which gave me even more the willingness to learn coding in a proper environment. 
I chose Le Wagon Paris because of the product-oriented program, which also includes team work on projects, which was in my opinion closer to professional life than an individual training.
Whereas the training took place during lockdown, I was very happy with my choice. The teachers' team is careful and the training itself is intense and has high-standard. The staff also tried its best to offer opportunities to relate to other classmates with Zoom parties and other activities !
In a few words, an intense and qualitative experience, and great people met !

My 9 weeks with Le Wagon was really one of the busiest and most exciting periods of my life. This is simply because of how much we were learning and implementing each and every week. We’d learn, create, break, and fix things all in a day’s work! 
The course took place in the midst of a pandemic, so we had to attend remotely. I was a bit hesitant at first because I didn’t want it to feel like just another Codecademy course. My biggest surprise, though, was how smoothly everything ran despite the unexpected nature of COVID and Le Wagon not having much time to make their whole curriculum “remote-friendly”. I didn’t really feel like I was missing out on anything just because I couldn’t go to their campus. 
This also speaks volumes to how hands-on the teaching team is, as well as how much interaction they encourage between students. You never really feel alone during the day, which is great because you never get stuck on a problem for very long either!
The level of productivity you get used to during the course is sky-high, so even after it’s over, you find yourself looking for projects or ways to continue coding even in your free time. And Le Wagon definitely gives you enough resources to support your post-wagon journey.
I’d say if you’re deciding whether to do the course, you should just go ahead and do it. I don’t regret doing it at all, and I know I would be kicking myself if I missed it!

I completed my 9 week full stack bootcamp in Bali, just over a week ago. And as I let the past few months sink in, I’m really amazed, in myself, how much you can learn in such a short period of time. But let me start from the beginning: last year, in June, 2019, I found myself graduated from a international music college in Thailand, working part time teaching English and part time playing music in bars and restaurants in Bangkok. My keyboard player, an American LeWagon alumni, and former teacher in LeWagon, Milano, was also living in Bangkok working as a rails developer from home as his day job. He used to be finishing up work as I’d come over to his place to practice, and I always thought that whatever he was doing on his computer looked like total hieroglyphics to me and coding was not something I’d ever thought I'd be able to do, I mean, I failed my Intro to Math my junior year three times. But at the same time I was envious of the lifestyle and being able to earn a good salary working from home, so I started asking questions. My buddy told me right away that I could totally do it too, and gave me the Ruby track on Codecademy to check out. And basically said that do this and if you feel like this is something you could work with then just join LeWagon. I had been asking some people who, well let’s just say are kind of self-proclaimed experts of a lot, saying “Nobody uses Ruby anymore, React is the new thing”, and “You can learn all that stuff on Udemy for way less money”. But I stuck with my buddies advice and signed up for LeWagon. I pushed the date forward a couple of times, and was set to start the bootcamp in Bali, in March 2020. And then covid happened, but I had postponed my bootcamp enough times so when LeWagon offered to do the batch online I decided to join anyway. 
The bootcamp started with Ruby, and although we started from the very beginning the exercises always found a way to challenge you and help you grow as a programmer. Those first two weeks we got thrown into a world of logic in Ruby and Object Oriented Programming that were mind-boggling and really challenging, but also satisfying at the same time when you finally understand the flow and you’re able to do it yourself using some kind of refernce, it feels like all that energy spent solving a bug in your code, you immediately get back when you solve it. Moves on to more front-end based phase and also a week of JavaScript. 
The bootcamp is fast paced, the amount of concepts you learn in a short period of time can will feel a bit overwhelming, but I recommend just trust the process, and as long as you can understand the big picture, most things will make sense when you enter the world of Rails during the last month of the bootcamp. All that grueling logic you fought so hard with during OOP week is going to be made much simpler (in theory), but ultimately yes, and you’ll also finally see how the front-end and the back-end comes together and you’ll be able to create real apps. 
The last two weeks are dedicated to final projects. I joined my batch mate Taylor who came up with idea for the app ‘UpHold’ and two others, and set out to build an app that let’s you report your encounters with the police, designed to create accountability and uphold the police to a higher standard. I’m really happy that I did the bootcamp, as I continue to learn React I’m constantly reminded of how helpful a good foundation in Ruby/Rails is helping me understand these new concepts. The program is overall really well designed, the teachers are total pros at what they do, and you can really feel that they love to see you succeed and they work tirelessly to make that happen. Although I haven’t personally used this superpower yet, but the LeWagon slack community seems really helpful and you feel like you’re not alone in this even after the bootcamp. Best of luck to all you other aspiring developers out there.

I have a MA in marketing with 5 years of experience in digital project management but I felt a bit stuck in my career. I needed a change and a new challenge but I was a bit scared about joining le Wagon. A coding bootcamp. Two scaryyy words but scary can be good. Very good.
Deciding to learn how to code was one of the best decision I took in the last 5 years!
The learning process: lectures, challenges, livecode, flashcards is very well thought. We had wonderful teachers and the TAs supported us in so many ways, technically and mentally. 

No surprise the Wagon is such a world renowned institution. Today, I can code, I met some amazing people with different backgrounds AND I know that I want to be a Product Manager.

 I had always dreamed to know how to build a website, and attending the 9 weeks bootcamp at Le Wagon was a good opportunity to finally do it. It was not easy to leave my comfort zone, the experience was intense but it was really worth it. I discovered a fascinating part of the web world. The team of teachers was amazing, you are safely guided to learn new skills and put them into practice immediately. I enjoyed everyday of the training, especially the last 2  weeks, when I had the opportunity to work with a team to build a web app from scratch. At the end, you can only be proud of what you achieved in only 9 weeks. 

I had a great time learning at Le Wagon, the teachers and TAs were very understanding and supportive and It is a great way to kickstart your career in tech if you are interested in boosting your skills or changing careers. I have learnt many skills and not just in coding but critical thinking and business development as well. A great starting point for anyone who is looking to create a start up. You also get access to a huge amount of lifelong resources that can be used in the future and a great network of Le Wagon coders as a bonus. Overall I am very happy with the course and the curriculum and the way it is taught and I highly recommend Le Wagon. They are the best for a reason  I went into the course with zero coding experience and now I feel like I could tackle any project or work in any tech field.

For some reason I decided to change my profession as a translator and start learning to code. First of all, I began to study on my own and took various online courses. I realized that I like it, that web developing  is interesting. But it was difficult for me to learn everything on my own, to organize myself in order to devote much time to my studies, and it was also difficult to structure all the material. Therefore, I decided to go to study at Le Wagon.
Despite the fact that under the current circumstances we had to deal with online bootcamp, I really liked how everything was organized. I can highlight the following:

• Well structured curriculum;
• Amazing teachers, staff and lovely environment in general; 
• Support and help;

During the 9 weeks the bootcamp provides a good knowledge base and a minimal understanding of how everything works in web developing. Now I’m looking for my first job in this area and continue to learn.

I have been working in retail for several years and was a merchandising manager when I decided to quit everything and I enrolled at Le Wagon. I chose Le Wagon because it had a really good ranking, I was able the attend the class in person, Le Wagon was one of the only ones to offer this and it was only 9 weeks.
Despite de the fact that we were not able to attend in person, Le Wagon pivot quickly to provide us as much as possible with the same experience we would have had if we were not forced to be home.
From the beginning, you really feel part of a community that expends around the world. The team and the teachers were amazing. Really there to support you through the process.
You explore many different concepts to be able to create web applications in a really short amount fo time. Because of that, I was able to discover new avenues in the tech industry and now have a better idea of what I want to do.