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Makers Academy

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Makers Academy is a highly selective, 16-week, full-time program which teaches web development online and in hybrid cohorts at their campus in London, England. Makers Academy is creating a new generation of tech talent who are skilled and ready for the changing world of work. The academy is inspired by the idea of discovering and unlocking potential in people for the benefit of the 21st-century business and society. At the core, Makers combines tech education with ...

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  • Anonymous
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    Jul 16, 2020
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    An enriching learning experience

    Makers is a great option for those wanting to transition into tech. The 12 week course is fast paced but comprehensive and designed not only to teach you how to code, but how to learn in general.
    The hands-off teaching style from the coaches encourages you to be more independent and find answers on your own or reach out for help within your cohort. The careers team are excellent and provide as much support as you require with things like interview prep, improving your CV and even one ...
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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Web Development • London
    Jun 13, 2020
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    Great for developing coding skills and practicing agile methodologies

    Makers provides a great learning environment for a wide variety of people with the willingness to learn. The ways that they do this are through skills workshops, independent learning time and pairing time. One of the most important aspects being pairing which is an opportunity to sit down and code on a task together with someone else which provides you with a different perspective to coding independently. 
    The opportunity to work in teams and practice agile methodologies is invaluable...
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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Web Development • London
    Apr 10, 2020
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    Junior Software Engineer

    Fast paced and lots of learning so be ready for that, but importantly they facilitate this with a productive and positive environment.
    Great coaching, you get out what you put in.
    Great careers advice and service... again take advantage of the services and their advice and you'll get a job no problem. They provide support after the course until you get a job you can't put a price on that!
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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Web Development • London
    Feb 09, 2020
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    Fun and intesnse

    Pros:
    - Meet lots of great people. 
    - Amazing to see what you can learn in a relatively short space of time.
    - Freedom to work on your own project in a group at the end of the course. 
    - Compared to other bootcamps, you get a good full stack approach. 
    - TDD approach is drilled into you from day one, which stands you in good stead for interviews. Process reviews with external reviewers are another great way to prep you for interviews. 

    Cons:
    - Coaches are stretch...
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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Web Development • London
    Jan 23, 2020
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    Excellent!

    Makers is a really interesting programme - I felt empowered to develop my own learning without it being too prescriptive. That being said the coaches were always accessible and happy to help unblock. I feel this mimicked real-life work very well and is great preparation for the real world. I would say that some of the workshops that were run were lacking a bit of direction but coaches were really open to feedback and this situation improved really quickly.

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  • Anonymous
    Software Engineer • Graduate • London
    Dec 04, 2019
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    Fantastic course & a life changing experience

    Truly one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. I joined Makers this year after dropping out of a humanities degree at university - without any prior computer science knowledge, industry experience or coding skills to speak of.

     

    Since then Makers has enabled me to land my dream job as a Software Engineer, at a company I’m super excited to work for! The course itself is fantastic and extremely apt in teaching practices which are highly valued the indu...

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  • Anonymous
    Frontend software engineer • Graduate • London
    Oct 18, 2019
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    Best career changing decision I made!!

    I really enjoyed the focus on mental well-being along with learning new skills and the curriculum. Although there was heavy focus on learning ruby in the precourse by no means was it the only language learnt. It help set the pace and knowledge for how to learn new languages. 

    During my time at Makers I had the chance to learn Ruby, Javascript, Python and Swift. When it comes to the final project, it is very flexible and the team do their best to make sure you get support througho...

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  • Anonymous
    Student • Web Development • London
    Jun 04, 2019
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    Worth It

    Makers provided an excellent bootcamp, that enabled developers like myself (with no coding experience)  to be able to go off and make valuable contributions to their tech company. The curriculum  provided, covered a wide range of topics that allowed  you to be exposed to a range of best practices ,key development concepts and  programming languages.  The support given by the coaches are of a high quality and they are  very supportive and patient. Not only are you supported on a technical l...

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  • Anonymous
    Graduate • Remote Web Development • Online
    Apr 07, 2019
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  • Anonymous
    Web Development • London
    Nov 13, 2017
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    Worth it !!!

    I had an amazing experience at Makers Academy, the people were incredible! It was really challenging and hard work, but definitely worth it! I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to anyone!

     

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  • Anonymous
    Junior software developer • Graduate • Web Development • London
    Nov 13, 2017
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    A brilliant experience

    Makers has been an incredible experience overall and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to anyone considering it. I came to coding with little knowledge or experience but with their guidance and support I have been able to land an incredible job as a junior software developer within 6 weeks of completing the course! It is expensive and for most people will involve some risk but I would say it is definitely worth it. 

    There is a lovely supportive atmosphere at Makers and I met so...

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  • Anonymous
    Developer • Graduate • Remote Web Development • Online
    Dec 08, 2016
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    MA Remote

    The MA Remote course is good for having a general introduction to web development practices and technologies involved (mainly Ruby). The course is based on TDD, agile and pair-programming. Although they say anybody can be a programmer in 12 weeks, I would recommend this course to people with a technical background or already familiar with programming, otherwise, instead of acquire the skills to be ready for the job market, the time would be spent on learning the fundamentals, which being h...

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Makers Academy costs around £8,500.

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Makers Academy offers courses like Web Development.

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Makers Academy has in-person campuses in Bristol, Cambridge, London and Manchester. Makers Academy also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.

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