NEXT Academy

Honestly, I really think that the full stack web dev bootcamp NEXT is well planned - where we actually learned things step by step - things that we thought weren't useful was in fact fundamental and essential to the next level of learning and giving us way too many "aha" moments.  End result of the bootcamp - I'm so damn confident I can create anything. It doesn't matter if we didn't know - we've learned to learn.. and learning them fast.

It is a very rewarding experience that you will have ever had in your coding journey in Next Academy. In Next Academy, i met mentors who are ready to help you when you need one and a bunch of friends who cheer you up when you burnt out. If you ask me why i chose Next academy instead of learning myself online, i would say Next Academy offers you mentorship. Without mentorship, it is so easy for me to give up but with a mentorship i will never give up or doubt myself in coding and these 10 weeks is enough to provide me the foundation to explore more languages and framework until today. Thanks Next Acdemy for the amazing 10 weeks!

This review comes from a Canadian who travelled to Kuala Lumpur just to attend NEXT Academy. If you are a North American who cannot see the value in paying $8000+ to a bootcamp in youre area, and have the freedom to move to Asia for 3-4 months, I HIGHLY reccomend NEXT academy. The mentors are great, and you leave the bootcamp a self sufficient programmer. You may not know absolutely everything you need to get your dream job right when you graduate, but this course gives you the tools to teach yourself absolutely anything. Don't worry about the fact that NEXT cant really help you with job assistance in Canada, if you work your ass off in this course, you don't need to worry about that. Youll get your own job. 

I enjoyed learning Web Development at NextAcademy. When I started the bootcamp in NextAcademy, I hadn't touched a computer in about a year. I wouldn't say I was tech-savvy at all. But after the course, I feel like I learned a lot. I don't think you have to be very tech-savvy or know all the latest trends to get into programming. NextAcademy will teach you how to think like a programmer and teach you all the basics you need to be a junior developer. I do feel like I have a lot more to learn, but with what I learned at NextAcademy I feel that I can start a career as a programmer and be able to contribute to a project. 

I felt that the mentors were very patient and really wanted us to learn. They always were near by in class or a instant message away to help us. I really appreciated that! 

DId the web development bootcamp. Very little instruction and every day you will show up and work through an online interface that lags and is mostly copied and pasted from github. Would recommend codeacademy, freecodecamp, treehouse or even a udemy/edX course instead- save yourself the money for what is essentially a highly overpriced study hall. If you must do a bootcamp, look elsewhere/compare other bootcamps and ask to watch a class first. 

The course is really intensive as there's a lot to learn in such a short period of time. But as long as you put your heart into it, you will get what NEXT is advertised which is to build an app in 9 weeks. You also learn how to be an independent coder as the mentors will guide you how to solve the problem yourself but not give you the solution right away. Overall it's a great experience and I'm glad that I joined the bootcamp. 

I've learnt a lot from Next Academy. The mentors have really taught me a lot about programming which I was not able to learn by myself before this.

I've really enjoyed the process of kickstarting my programming skill with Next Academy, they have a great syllabus and efficient ways of teaching coding to people like me who does not have any background in tech. 

I've never learnt so much in 9 weeks before.

Perfect.

At the beginning, I joined the bootcamp with the intention of learning to code. Halfway through the journey, I felt that it was a very good journey for self-discovery, as well as meeting interesting people and facing problems together. 

Even though I don't feel confident that I'll be a good software developer yet, but yes i will keep going and try my best. 

The mentors, Gloria and Aiman were very good. Gloria for her way of teaching and Aiman for super friendliness. 

You just need to get yourself prepared to push further when you sign up for this. I have zero coding background, neither front-end nor back-end, and I struggled in the first 2 weeks. At one point, I reached a breaking point and thought that the overwhelming pace is slowly killing my interest in learning to code. This, however was overcame the moment I continue to push myself through the whole 9 weeks. Fun peers, committed coding environment, crazy hours, superbly short lunch hour (what lunch?) and dedicated mentors. Get yourself in if you want to get a feel of how a coder's life is. The journey has never been easy, but now I can happily say that: YES, I CAN CODE!

NEXT academy was exactly what I needed to get started in web development. The course was hard! Learning to code is very difficult, and there were many times that I felt completely lost and like I would never figure it out. Having a classroom of friends who all felt the same way is the only thing that kept me going sometimes! NEXT does a great job at teaching you HOW to learn, and how to figure out the answers on your own, and sometimes this led to times that I felt a little abandoned. In retrospect, overcoming this feeling is necessary in order to make you an independent programmer! The mentors are all super helpful and in general... It was all REALLY fun!

One of the best decisions I make to further my learning on Digital Marketing was to join NEXT Academy's Digital Marketing bootcamp. Not only did Khai Yong did an excellent job in curating the list of superb mentors to mentor us each week, the course modules were also designed to highlight the essential skills needed to excel in Digital Marketing. I particularly like the deep insights shared by the respective mentors, as each mentor is an expert in their field of expertise and each has their own method of delivering the message across. The fact that each of them is an industry practitioner, allows us to learn what industry practitioners actually DO and not merely SAY to execute real life digital marketing campaigns that actually works. My only wish was that the course was longer, so that I could continue to prick the brains of these mentors :) I hope to one day come back to NEXT Academy and share my experience with others, after I have successfully applied what I have learned at NEXT.

There is lots you could do if all your staff didn't gave me a standard answer. " it's like that everyone have to pass that stage everyone go through them , everyone will get use to it eventually" I have voice it out since day one. My struggle and problems!

Exactly! you have read the similar feedback before during the second week of school but have you show any concern? You respond to me after I have text you for 2 days and when you finally have the time for me , it's falls on the day that I was unable to attend class due to some urgent matters that need my attention immediately, the date was arranged before you respond to me. 

Everyone wanted to succeed in life and we will collect all the tools we need in order to achieve our goals. I paid 10k to show my sincerity in learning . I seldom fail to go class to show my interest in learning . I gave my feedback hoping for someone to respond and help me. Your one and only respond came 2 days late and you call me not cooperative? If you could be more responsive and sincere towards my feedback I will take your refund and left with a good note.

Yes expectation varies from every individuals. My expectation obviously was mislead by your advertisement tag line " for beginners without any experience" and I just got your fine print on this reply " this boot camp is meant for beginners but not meant for everyone" . I am that unfortunate "everyone" .
May I know what happen to that 20% of your not to meant beginners? I have no back ground on this field and the whole bootcamp didn't start from basic. We started off with challenges and it's like a revision for some of my camp mates. I felt discriminated when you highlighted 99% of my class graduated well but not me. 
I totally agreed with you, this bootcamp is meant for trained people who looking for challenge. It is not very difficult for them but it's extremely impossible for a person without basic.

I came with an great ambition and a serious attitude to learn . A big mistake you make ( for not filtering / giving the right info and a proper definition of the bootcamp) totally demoralize a promising student. I doubt any right attitude person will be able to succeed through your bootcamp if they do not have a good fundamental knowledge .

I am please to know you have finally progress and realize that not everyone is suitable for your bootcamp. This means lesser victims.

Personally I felt it make no different on the numbers of student in a group if the mentor is not pro active at all. I wonder if a student totally do not understand how the formula was created? What would you expect the student to ask? I felt shy sometime when I ask the mentor very basic question and he was shock too . Some mentor even ask me to google and find my own answers. Base on one and only incident you seem like assuming or presuming that I have not been attending classes regularly. I hope you could be more fair with your statement. 
This is never my intention to be a " keyboard warrior" I am most willing to met up with you and clarify things out face to face, but you are not very fond and prompt with the phone/text messages. You choose to reply me through this channel so we end up laundering our views in public. Please do contact me and arrange for a met up.

I am sure your mentors aren't robots but there is one that is very consistent with his answer " go google yourself" . My interpretation of consistency teaching is there should be interaction between mentor and student. Correct me if I am wrong. The mentor is not a robots but he shall sit at his desk and the student shall do their own challenge? Anything do not understand ask mr google? This is teaching? Then my mentor should me mr google not mr human (robots). Anyway I do not discredit all mentors . I do have one very good mentor but he is so good he is always needed somewhere else and it's only fair to the rest if I do not hog on him.

I do respect your school guideline however guideline is just a guide, being too rigid about it does not benefits anyone.

Last of all I do not have to complain about anyone , anything if I was properly guided and explained in details of the objective of this bootcamp before I enroll.I was mislead from the beginning. My feedback was not address in time. I leave my name on my feedback but somehow not registered. Now I get this not very professional official reply from the school with a tinch of discrimination and insult months later. I think we should met up and pursue a common understanding of our stand. You have my contact please contact me. 

Absolutely enjoyed my time at NEXT Academy. It was hard, yet rewarding at the same time when I had my first app built on the 4th week of the bootcamp.

Went to a hackathon in Week 6 of the bootcamp as the only web developer in the team and managed to deliver an  app within 10 hours! Went for another hackathon one week after graduation and got into the top 5!

Made new friends, met great mentors who taught me how to solve a problem in a more systematic way, to think from different perspectives, guided me to find solutions instead of just spoon-feeding.

What inspired me most is the calmness that they exude whenever a problem is faced. They will work so calmly to solve the problem together with us.

No regrets joining the bootcamp and picking up a new skill! One of the best decisions I made in my life!