I came in like many others hardly knowing a thing about coding but with the help of the amazing staff and students we all worked hard to overcome this challenging boot camp! 10/10 I would definetly do it again! 

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Prior to enrolling in the UNH Full-Stack Flex Bootcamp, I was, like many others I'm sure, just another student looking to obtain a four-year degree. In the early stages of that process, I found the manner in which the university system is administered to be convoluted and fundamentally flawed. So, I took a step back from the pursuit of a bachelor's degree and instead focused on trying to pinpoint what industries naturally interest me and what skills I have a natural propensity for. I visualized those in a venn-diagram kind of way, and found that the overlap pointed directly to programming. I took what seemed like a big risk in tabling my pursuit of a degree ( for now ) and instead enrolling in the bootcamp. Best. Decision. Ever.

In my eyes, there are two major value propositions that this course offers over a more traditional associate's or bachelor's track. The first value added is an ever-strengthening economic one. Proficient developers in web technologies are in very high demand. With so much of the modern world now reliant on the internet, the labor market is starved for people who are able to develop new applications or maintain and improve existing ones, and that demand is reflected in the prospective salary of web developer. Combine that with the course's price tag, which is pennies compared to that of a bachelor's degree, and you get the "high R.O.I." education that Trilogy and UNH offer with this course.

The other value this course created, for me at least, was in regards to time and scope. The amount of time it takes to become industry-ready as a software engineer is drastically shortened for anyone willing to fully commit to this bootcamp. A typical four-year computer science degree covers computer theory in great detail, which is certainly of value; those curricula, however, frequently do not provide any interaction with modern web technologies outside of a rudimentary introduction to HTML, CSS, and javascript. This bootcamp, conversely, affords students the oppourtunity to get familiar with leveraging these technologies (plus many more), and encourages them to do so at length. In this way, I found myself being exposed to many of the same theories taught to computer science students simply by learning to implement them. All while continually refining those skills in said technologies and working towards becoming a proficient developer.

To speak more to the nature of the class itself, I couldn't have asked for a better group of people to learn from and learn with. The staff here all know what they're doing, no doubt, and, even more notably, they are extremely effective in communicating what tends to be rather abstract material. The teacher and teaching assistants, as well as the coordinator, all had a very evident passion for the material we covered, and, morever, clearly took great joy in sharing their knowledge. That sort of passion is contagious. I feel comfortable speaking for my entire class when I say that we got just as much joy out of learning from the Trilogy staff as they got out of teaching us.

I will never look back on this class with anything but appreciation. I consider this bootcamp a metaphorical seed more than anything. You will not learn everything there is to know here. You will, however, learn everything you need to know to plant that metaphorical seed, and you will leave with the tools to nourish that seed into a full grown passion for the challenging, sometimes frustrating, but truly rewarding wolrd of code.

Many thanks to everyone at Trilogy who helped to make this one of the best years of school yet.  

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I was enrolled in this bootcamp from June 2018 - Dec 2018. It really changed my life in many ways. it is a fast paced program with a endless amount of knowledge to consume. The instructional and support team is extremely helpful, they truly care if you understand the material. Everyone involved in this bootcamp wants to see ever student succeed. The course material is new cutting edge technology. Before the bootcamp I was always into tech and computers and general but never got into code, but after the six months of class I can now create Full Stack websites with ease. I will say you must go into this knowing that it is a lot of work, but it is very much worth it. If you put the time into to learning it, it will pay off. Not only does it teach you how to use MERN stack but it just overall helps you know how to go about learning. As I said the intructional team truly cares and that is what I liked most, they were always available to answer questions and explain things more throughly if needed. They go above and beyond the expectations. 

TLDR:

PROS:

• Newer Technologies
• Amazing Staff
• Always there to answer questions
• Price is lower then other bootcamps
• Smaller class
• Again the staff is the best.
• 1 hour tutor seshion every week (optional)

CONS:

• I really can't think of any

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This program truly does a great job of taking any individual from spinning up their first simple HTML "Hello World" page, to spinning up server-side JavaScript applications, all in 6-months. 

The pace is fast, but the instructional staff provides an exceptional level of support and opportunity for catching up/ extra learning. The most impressive part is how well of a job the instructor/ TA's do at breaking down complicated concepts or even logistics, and applying in it the right way to an audience who (for the most part) is learning programming for the first time. 

The technology learned is very modern and coveted by employers. Walking away from this course, you will have the ability to really go in any direction with your career. You will have the ability to devleop full stack apps (everything from server-side to front-end), using the most up-to-date frameworks/methods. There is an added upside in that you work on three group projects, giving you experience in an agile-scrum like environment. Working in that type of environment alone is a huge plus for your career/ overall way of accomplishing tasks. 

For me personally, the main benefit of this bootcamp aside from self-teaching online was the overall knowledge obtained from the class involved smaller, but important logistical skills. Becoming a power user of the command line, understanding version controling such as Git, deployment best practices, are all skills learned throughout the program that make you a much better developer. 

I highly recommend this bootcamp for anyone who has an affinity for technology and is willing to put in the time (both in class and out). You won't regret it! 

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I just completed the UNH Full Stack Web Development Bootcamp and it was a very positive experience.  I have 20 years of developer experience working at a large corporation, but I felt stale in my job and wanted to learn some newer technologies.  This bootcamp really did the trick as it re-lit my passion for coding, so I am really glad that I took the course!

When I was deciding if I wanted to enroll or not, I had 2 issues that I worried about.  One was the time commitment, especially committing to every Saturday for 6 months.  The other was the instructors; I wondered if UNH could get qualified instructors because  some of the technologies are so new that not a lot of people have expertise with them.

The time commitment is significant - I spent about 25 hours a week during the first half of the class, and about 40 hours a week during the second half of the class on class time and homework.  But it is for a finite amount of time so it is do-able.  Make sure you are prepared to put in the time, because you get out of the course what you put into it.

The instructional staff was excellent so I worried for nothing on that one.  The Instructor and Teaching Assistants were all knowledgeable and able to communicate difficult concepts to a class with a wide diversity of backgrounds.  Also, they encouraged collaboration rather than competition between students, so that made the whole experience a lot more fun and was a huge benefit to learning.  If I had a question on homework, I could put it out to the class and someone would help within a few hours, either another student or the teaching staff.  And this collaboration reflects the open source culture and a real work place, because wherever you end up working you will probably be part of a team, so to learn how to operate within a team is an important skill.

UNH partners with Trilogy Education for this Bootcamp.  Although the program is new to UNH, Trilogy has been doing it at other Universities for a long time so the curriculum is pretty well nailed down.  It is very fast paced and challenging and you learn a lot of information in a relatively short time.  However, you don’t learn Java in this course.  It is misleading for UNH to mention Java in the course description because we only spent 3 hours on Java.  You could easily dedicate an entire bootcamp to learning Java and object oriented concepts, and if that is what you want to learn this is not the right program for you.

There is a career services component to the course also, since most people will be looking for a job when they complete the bootcamp.  I found this helpful because I haven’t looked for a job in about 15 years, and the job search process has changed in that time.  There is a Trilogy career curriculum which I found very helpful.  However there was a lot of turnover in the career counselors, so that was a disappointment because you were working with strangers and never really had a chance for them to get to know you.  I would rather have had 1 or 2 people helping me, rather than the 5 or 6 different career counselors that we ended up having, as a result of turnover.

I thoroughly enjoyed this course and got a lot out of it.  I have already recommended it to friends and mention how great it is to everyone who asks.

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