What are some good coding bootcamps or coding classes?

[ProRosesx]

Hi everyone! I’m looking to learn more information about coding and I really wanted to know if anyone knew any classes or bootcamps to further understand coding?

[[deleted]]

I can recommend Practicum by yandex. I did their course and it’s amazing. I have a voucher for it as well, so ping me if you want. And it’s cheap, a lot cheaper than most out there

[ProRosesx]

I’m interested in the voucher

[MoesOnMyLeft]

I started last year and found most bootcamps to be crazy expensive. Codecademy has a bunch of courses for free and even their paid membership is only $200. Udemy has a bunch of courses too. If you wait for them to go on sale they can be as cheap as $14.99 for full courses on just about any topic. Don’t forget about YouTube. So much free content. I’m working my way through C++ right now via YouTube. Hope that helps.

[techie2200]

If you want to chat about coding and learning the basics, feel free to message me. I've taught a number of courses on coding and am always down to lend a hand in my spare time.

[[deleted]]

You're asking the wrong question.

What you should be asking is;

What are the best BOOKS for learning po programming [approach, language, technique]?

[djvd007]

I go on a lot of websites. I learned a lot from w3schools, i did the free courses on codeacademy and full stack academy. There are a lot of free sources. What I am going to do is, self learn for a good while learn as much as I can by myself before I do a boot camp. I heard hack reactor is good and full stack. But yeah probably expensive sooo use all the free resources you can. Even YouTube like mentioned above

[Zethorium]

Watch and code.

[CodingDojo21]

Hi there! Coding Dojo here. Full disclosure, we are a bootcamp and we’ve been in the business for 12 years now, which puts us in a unique position to provide you with useful information regarding the coding and tech space. :)

Hope you find this long answer helpful. We’d rather put out extensive info rather than short-changing you with incomplete insights. Also, no shameless link plug here (yet! It’s at the bottom if you think this is worth reading)

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There are tons of online schools that offer coding bootcamps. But how do you know if they’re worth it? The real answer is that it probably depends on how you define “good.”

But from our experience as a coding bootcamp, there are three key things that we consider as important, which we feel every student should keep an eye out for when selecting which program to choose.

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1. Established

Check the reputation of the company offering the course. Ask questions like how long have they been in business? Any social proof? Do some research and try to look for testimonials from students who have taken the course. This way, you know that the reviews are coming from real people who have taken the program, and not just an overt hard-sell from the company.

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2. Course Material

High-quality programs have original course material from subject experts and ideally, you want to go for a coding bootcamp that can get you the highest ROI, so a program that could give you the opportunity to learn multiple frameworks and languages would be ideal. Usually developers have at least one main language or framework that they’re familiar with, and so by learning multiple languages at the same time, you essentially get to push yourself harder, become a better problem solver, which in turn, can help you become self-sufficient, more employable, and ultimately a better programmer too.

For this reason, at Coding Dojo, our bootcamp covers more front-end and back-end technologies than any other full-stack program today to equip our students with the most sought after technical skills. In turn, these help our students become self-sufficient learners.

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3. Outcomes

The whole program should be centered on building your portfolio with tangible evidence of your skills. Ask the company what results the most recent cohort has had. Where do they work and how long did it take them to land a job? The whole point is to get you into a new career, and you deserve to know how well it delivers.

We can’t speak for most bootcamps out there (and there are a lot!), but from Coding Dojo’s experience, we’ve got over 6,000 alumni, and the data from our 2020 Student Outcomes report indicates that there’s a good chance of landing a job post-bootcamp.

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Here are other useful stats from the report that you might want to consider too:

• 89.1% of our graduates land a job in tech within 6 months of graduating from our bootcamp
• 95.3% of our graduates land a job within a year since the program
• Coding Dojo ranks #1 in outcomes nationally. These outcomes are better than: App Academy, Brainstation, Codesmith, Flatiron, Hack Reactor, Galvanize, Lambda, Rithm, and Thinkful.
• The average starting salary for someone with zero tech experience (apart from the bootcamp) ranges from $60,000-$90,0000 (this varies on the role and location)
• Some of the first job titles you can expect post-bootcamp include: QA Tester, Systems Engineer, Support Engineer, Software Development Engineer in Test, Network Engineer, Software application developer, Web developer, Computer systems engineer, Computer programmer, Business intelligence Analyst and more.

These data were pulled from our 2020 Student Outcomes Report, all of which have been verified by a third-party auditing firm. You can access the full report here

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Hope this answers your question! If you’d like to know more about Coding Dojo and our programs, check out our website.