UW Coding Boot Camp

This bootcamp is challenging and stressful but between the instructional staff and the resources provided, it's absolutely doable. Our instructional team was helpful and knowledgeable and did a great job of pointing us in in the correct direction. The workload is a lot but it's also what you are willing to put into it so you have to develop strategies to power you through and get out of the course what you ultimately want to get. The pace of the class is blistering and only picks up over time so it's important to have time management strategies so you can spend time on current material and not get too far behind. Joe was a great instructor and provided a lot of tips for managing assignments but it can be very easy to get behind so it's something to stay on top of. I had no experience going into this bootcamp and I was able to learn a ton in three short months. This has been a great and rewarding experience that I am proud of and glad to have had access to! 

The instructor and TA staff were amazing; they went above and beyond to help and support us. The environment was very friendly and helpful, and even my fellow students were very collaborative. I can't believe how much I learned and how fast. I was somewhat skeptical that I'd be able call myself a full-stack web developer at the end of the course when I began, but after just a few weeks that notion went away. The instructor was very good at explaining things in a way that people new to programming can understand, and also at allaying impostor syndrome. 

Some takeaways:

• The course is interesting, frustrating, stressful, and fun all at the same time.
• You will need to work about 40 hours a week on top of the 25 hours a week of instruction time to be successful (yes, about 60+ hours/week).
• It is exhausting but exciting. Afterwards, you'll need some decompression time.
• The full-time course is probably not a good idea for anyone who has to work during those 3 months.
• I learned more than just web development: I learned how to effectively collaborate with others, how to learn on my own, what my learning style is, and gained confidence I didn't know I had in me.
• Even if you decide to apply for a job using different tools/languages that aren't part of this course, you will have gained the skills to ramp up on those quickly on your own.

Some feedback:
Some assignments aren't scheduled well and interfere/collide with the major project work, so some more thought could go into that. Also, more time could be allocated to React. While It's important to understand the underpinnings of a tool like React before jumping into it ("walk before you can run"), it was presented as the course was winding down and we all were busy with the final project, and we were all saturated by that point. More "bake time" with it would be good in future iterations of the course.

Overall, I really think this course was well worth the time and money, and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to level up their skillset to become a web developer!

This was a very challenging course for me. I went into it with zero coding knowledge and came out with more knowledge and experience than I thought would be possible. One of the most important aspects of this class for me was putting in the recommended amount of time studying. I am a busy person and there were weeks that I struggled mightily and those were the weeks that I did not put enough time in. As with anything, you get out of it what you put into it. The thing that helped me push through my struggles in this course was the excellent instructional team. My instructor was very personable, knowledgable and always willing to help. All of the TA's were great to work with! They were all very patient and knowledgable. The patience a person must have to answer the same question a million times is mind boggling, but they did it. Whenever I received help there was always a bunch of laughing and smiling which made it fun. Getting that one on one time was invaluable and I enjoyed getting to work through problems with all of them. I recommend this class to anyone that is serious about learning full stack web development.

It was rough; but as soon as I was rolled into B. Duimstra's class it all changed; an environ rich with students engaging with one another, meeting outside of class to chop the studies down, acclimating to a professional environment as best a class could mimic: that which a tech-career entails; though a classroom, leaders (staff and peers alike) allowed for the unspoken promulgation of an ethos to suffice. Teamwork wrought out of cohesive determination, a collective fortitude melded by like-goals, like-dreams, like-minds; a care for one another exemplified by countless collective endeavors to bring one another back into the fray - to win; for one's Self, for one's Family, for one's Future. An, "I win. You win. We win," mentality shown and proven through ACTION; over, and over, and over again: the whole, `Error! 500 - "Bad Language!"`, class.

Leaders, and only Leaders, exhibit the traits necessary to allow for an undercurrent to take grasp; encouraging this potential energy to perpetuate into a current, building momentum as the flow increases, taking on more volume as it builds It's shape and increases velocity, this force then perpetuating a collective mass of It's Like pulling the outliers into it's ever-increasing advance towards a shore on the Other Side; fortifying resolve, exemplifying momentous grit, inundating It's form with an encouraging haste towards that Terminus of Future...

...what was once a negligible tickle in a trickle of an idea had become an unequivocal Wave of Due Recognition as witness bear to Our form; rising above It's prior elevations among a collective of It's Like; now, with Shore in sight, We approach with 'Daunt' at our apex as 'Failure' accepts oblivion.

I'm nothing, nothing, compared to that which is something..

Jen Alexander, Big Brian Duimstra, John Titus, Zakk Fast, Alison Schreckengast, the 2U-UW Team; Samuli Jarvinen, Erinn Matesi, Chris Tidwell, Kateryna Tekmenzhi, Huang Cheng-Chien, Nathan Milburn..

..The Whole Wave. THE WHOLE WAVE!

WE. ARE. HERE. ...NOW!

This course was very helpful and excellently paced for a beginner in coding who works 40+ hours a week to learn about the world, work and field of web development. If you put in the time and really focus, you will be extremely happy and rewarded with the skills that you develop.

I had the amazing opportunity to have Brian Duimstra as my instructor. He is very well versed in what he knows and it really showed and made his instruction easy to follow and understand. His insights for the future, and all around positivity made this course extremely enjoyable! I really appreciate it!

The curriculum provided was excellent, I am glad I will be able to study it for a continued time after I graduate.

Job assistance is well thought out and planned, you need to be active with the career team to get all the help you want. But that shows dedication to finding a new career and I think that's the way it should be.

I am happy that I will be graduating, and I will be recommending this course to anyone who is looking to change careers into Web Development!

Cheers:) 

You really get what you put into this course. If you are willing and ready to be challenged and put in 20+ hours every week outside of class to studying and coding, you will do very well in this course and learn so much!! My instructor, Anthony Brown, did an amazing job at teaching the material and showing us students how much he cared about our success. I thought the Bootcamp was very well organized and structured. If you utilize all of the resources they give you, the reading materials, instructional videos, projects, assignments, tutors, TA's and office hours, you will set yourself up for success. It is challenging and fast-paced, but if you are ready to put in the time, you will be amazed at how much you've learned by the end of it!

I went into this bootcamp with no prior coding experience. I learned what HTML was for the first time with the pre-work assignments we were given upon signing up for the course. I graduated from the bootcamp three weeks ago and received my first job offer today. I will be starting my first job as a Front-end Engineer with Amazon in one month and I am beyond grateful for this bootcamp and the instructional team for helping me get here.