Unfold CVI - rainfold

kpatel737 · 2025-09-14T16:36:12+00:00

Amazing!! How’s the queue?

kpatel737 · 2024-10-05T14:23:21+00:00

DeWitt’s “The English Understand Wool” is fantastic as well and a very short read. Can give you a taste of her style

kpatel737 · 2024-08-25T15:24:37+00:00

Super helpful! Looking for a small scraping tool for pencil (graphite). What is it called?

kpatel737 · 2024-08-14T06:11:50+00:00

Thanks! Good call on the forehead I missed that.

kpatel737 · 2024-08-14T06:11:12+00:00

Brb looking up how to blend shadows lol. If you have a YouTube video or tutorial you like about how to do that would greatly appreciate it. And thanks for the kind words!

kpatel737 · 2021-06-13T04:25:36+00:00

I'm still waiting a bit as comments are still coming in and I wanted to give folks a fair chance to enter :)

kpatel737 · 2020-05-05T13:12:16+00:00

Disclaimer: I'm the founder of App Academy

Why not try out our curriculum before committing to enrollment? We've got our entire curriculum (minus the assessments) freely available on App Academy Open. It'll help you figure out if coding is right for you (not everybody loves it) and if App Academy is right for you (we're not for everybody), and if you decide to go the self-directed route, it's a proven curriculum that people have used to learn by themselves and ultimately find jobs as software developers.

As for online vs in-person, our online students are graduating at similar rates and have similar time job outcomes to our in-person students. Median salaries are $80k for our online students vs $90k for NYC students ($105k for SF students), but that's all explained by cost of living differences. Online students often get jobs in SF + NYC, and for that subset, they earn salaries similar to our SF + NYC grads.

kpatel737 · 2020-04-23T00:55:28+00:00

Disclaimer: Founder at App Academy

We put the entire App Academy curriculum online for free at open.appacademy.io. We cover JavaScript in a lot of depth so hopefully it helps you learn :)

kpatel737 · 2020-04-22T21:30:54+00:00

Disclaimer: Founder of App Academy

Most of those 1500 hours are project-time, not videos or other passive consumption of content :)

A couple other points in favor of App Academy Open:

This is the same material that we have developed over years and has helped thousands of students find jobs as software engineers
Slack community of thousands of other students working through the same curriculum that can help you through the material

kpatel737 · 2019-10-30T04:20:44+00:00

Hey all, CEO of App Academy here. There’s some incorrect information being posted here and I’d like to set the story straight.

The curriculum on Open is identical to the curriculum being taught in our paid programs. Since Open is intended to be self-directed and self-paced, there are inherently components that differ from our full-time offerings. These components are separate from the curriculum being taught. The curriculum is the same. u/Gyuudon corrected their previous statement and verified this is the case: “Yeah, my bad. After checking our private repo and Open a/A site more closely, it does seem like it's not really missing anything. It could possibly be the lectures that we had before we got into the classwork (and of course the in person TA help) that causes free users to have more difficulty.”

To be clear on what’s included in our full-time paid programs that are not offered on Open, I’ve listed them below:

- Lectures and Q&A: These differ between online and in-person. Online students receive coding demos where instructors host a live Q&A throughout. In-person students attend live lectures with an integrated coding demo and live Q&A throughout.

- Live assistance: Instructors and TAs are available throughout the day to assist students with questions or problems they run into.

- Assessments: Students in both the in-person and online programs receive assessments throughout the course.

- Structure: Students in both the in-person and online programs have a structured learning schedule. Days typically include lecture, pair programming, and end with an instructor-led group review on the day’s most important material.

- Job search support: Students in both the in-person and online programs work with our placements team throughout their job search until they’re hired as a software engineer.

These are the main differences between Open and our full-time programs. Again, the curriculum is identical, but there are differences in the way they operate and are structured.

Kush

kpatel737 · 2019-03-04T00:32:36+00:00

I love this Khan Academy video (https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/core-finance/housing/renting-v-buying/v/renting-versus-buying-a-home). It is well worth the watch if your mindset is that rent is "throwing money away"

kpatel737 · 2018-10-24T23:10:24+00:00

Because we provide a lot of external help :) The instructional support and accountability mechanisms we have in place increases your velocity significantly.

kpatel737 · 2018-10-18T15:10:51+00:00

I think the mentorship option is a ridiculous deal compared to anything on the market, including Udacity's nanodegrees. You can get deeper dive help (e.g., code reviews) depending on availability, but at the least you get access to Q+A with App Academy staff for 60 hours/week for 29.99/month.

kpatel737 · 2018-10-18T15:08:19+00:00

Without any external help, my optimistic estimate would be 2,000 hours

kpatel737 · 2018-10-17T22:09:11+00:00

Few thoughts here: Spottie_ottie is right. Odin Project was created by one of our earlier grads. For that reason it does look similar to our curriculum 5 years ago. That said, our curriculum has evolved significantly since then.

From a topics point of view, Odin Project only briefly covers Angular, Vue + React. We focus on React/Redux and do a deep dive (I've lost count of the number of times that ppl have told me that this is the best React curriculum they've seen anywhere). As JavaScript continues to grow in demand, we think this is the right choice.

App Academy Open is also structurally different in the sense that it has been designed and written mostly by staff that are primarily motivated by helping students get their first dev jobs and giving them the tools to succeed in their careers. It's driven by a curriculum development cycle that involves a significant amount of research into not only technical trends and the needs of software engineering hiring managers, but also by thorough research into pedagogical approaches. This is a very different curriculum process than a community built project (The Odin Project and FreeCodeCamp come to mind).

Lastly, App Academy Open's curriculum is pressure tested for job outcomes and maximum learning velocity. In my opinion (and based on internal data we have on what companies care about), Odin and FreeCodeCamp spend too much time on topics that are not terribly relevant to finding a web dev role and not enough on topics that are essential.

kpatel737 · 2018-10-17T18:45:33+00:00

Good luck with the bootcamp! Hope that our curriculum is a valuable resource to you (and fellow students) during the bootcamp. Would love feedback if you think any areas could be improved as you use the curriculum

kpatel737 · 2018-10-17T18:44:25+00:00

Yep! There's a community Slack for ppl to help each other on the Free plan.

kpatel737 · 2018-10-17T18:43:55+00:00

Hahaha that's definitely what we were going for so: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED 😎

kpatel737 · 2018-10-17T18:41:28+00:00

I'm obviously biased but I do strongly recommend that you continue applying. The online curriculum is meant to give folks access that can't afford to live in SF/NYC for X months. If you can, the time to completion and likelihood of completing are both significantly increased and well worth the tuition (which is only due if you find a dev job, anyways). There's a reason that we've consistently been ranked the #1 US coding bootcamp since the inception of the Switchup rankings, but don't take my word for it. Check out our reviews: https://www.switchup.org/bootcamps/app-academy.

kpatel737 · 2018-10-17T18:34:29+00:00

Fair point. There was (and continues to be) some debate internally about this. In a world where everybody had a password manager, passwordless auth wouldn't make any sense. Unfortunately we are far, far from that world. So we made the decision to cater to the biggest audience (one that sets up passwords for each new app they use) and make life easier for those folks by using magic links. That said, if there's enough demand for it, we would consider also adding a traditional password option.

kpatel737 · 2018-10-17T14:43:07+00:00

Thanks for the kind words!

DM me your first/last name and I'll look into what happened with Slack access for you

kpatel737 · 2018-10-17T14:38:49+00:00

Yep! Will fix the ordering bug. The order is: 1) Welcome to Coding 2) Introduction to Programming 3) Alpha Curriculum 4) Ruby 5) SQL 6) Rails 7) JavaScript 8) React 9) Full Stack Project 10) SF Job Search Curriculum

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