App Academy

Disclosure: while I did the 16-Week program, it was online rather than in person due to Covid. For me, App Academy was a great experience. From great instructors to amazing cohort mates, the people are what made the journey fun and enjoyable. When I started,... Read More I expected to be pretty much isolated from the rest of the world for 4 months coding online. However, App Academy's friendly instructors and my fellow cohort mates made the physical isolation feel like nothing as I would log in every day looking forward to talking and learning to code with them. The course, while challenging (I put in 70-80 hours a week), was fair and the material was taught in a clear, step-wise manner that allowed for ideas to reinforce each other day after day. After my graduation was where I thought I got the most bang for my buck. My career coach gave me wonderful and insightful advice to clean up job application materials as well as how to properly prepare for interviews. That advice resulted in me being offer three software engineering jobs within 2 months of graduating with one being well over 120k a year. The cons of App Academy are two fold 1) the cost as compared to other boot camps with deferred payment tuition plans, such as Hack Reactor, and 2) during the program, sometimes the daily emails would contradict what was said in lecture. I can without hesitation recommend the App Academy program to those who are looking to enter tech from a non-tech background.

I joined the 24-week Immersive Full Stack Online Program in December 2021 and graduated in June 2022. As someone who was looking to make a career change, I recommend App Academy as it provided me with the best way to learn coding starting with my level.... Read More I had taken some computer science classes back in college, but was overwhelmed because I didn't have prior knowledge in the field in order to learn the hard concepts. App Academy's materials assumed that students wouldn't have any prior knowledge, so they were the right kind of teaching materials that I needed to finally learn and master the skills. The staff at App Academy was really supportive as most of them came from a background of graduating from a coding bootcamp. Fellow students of my cohort were amazing, helping one another learn and succeed throughout the journey. After graduation, there's a job placement team that's dedicated to help you succeed in the job search process.

As someone who wanted to leave the business world and start a career as a software engineer, App Academy provided the structure and resources I needed to take that step. Over the course of 16 weeks, I learned all of the skills needed to land my first... Read More job as a software engineer and more importantly built my confidence as a developer. I highly recommend this program to anyone looking to break into tech and to become a software engineer in a collaborative, challenging, and rewarding environment.

I enrolled in the Full Stack Online Immersive 24-Week Program in December 2021 and graduated in June 2022, during my time at App Academy I met tons of people that helped me to grow, particularly the staff and lecturers. I learned 2 technology stacks and... Read More reinforced my knowledge of the fundamentals. I was stressed at times and only made it through because of the help of the staff and my peers. If I could change one thing it would be to go in person since I feel I'm better at learning in person.

This course separates those who can and those who can’t. If you are wondering what it takes to become a Full Stack Dev, look no further than App Academy. The value of this course is absolutely worth it. But don’t be fooled that it will be easy, it requires... Read More all your effort, attention and focus.

I changed career in my mid-30s and App Academy made it possible for me through their curriculums and support. a/A is no joke! They expect students to spend ~70 hours a week and I actually spent more hours each week throughout the entire 16-week period.... Read More It’s a 2x full-time job. If you are unable to fully commit to it, don’t bother because most likely they will kick you out - there’s an assessment almost every week and if failed more than two, you are out! By the 4th week of my cohort, half of the cohort mates were gone. At the end of the 16th week, only one-third of cohort mates were able to make it to graduation. We had an instructor and 3 instructor assistants. They were knowledgeable about the learning materials and were able to explain very well whenever we had questions. In order to graduate, we had to have three projects - a javascript, full-stack, and team-collaboration full-stack project. These are keys to landing a job, especially if you had no prior experience in the software engineering field. I am glad they had this as part of their curriculum! After graduation, technical and behavior coaches did a fantastic job preparing me for the interview process. In the 3rd week of the job-hunting process, I had more interviews scheduled than I could handle so I had to slow down my application submission. I got two offers by the end of the 4th week and accepted one. Now working as a Software Engineer in a public traded company and loving it! Overall, based on my own experience, a/A is a legit Bootcamp school with organized curriculums and support teams to prepare people with no coding experience for the tech field.

Finding self studying hard? Don't know where to start with coding? A bootcamp may be for you! App Academy has an amazing support system, whether it be the mod leads, the TAs, to your own cohort mates. It is fast-paced though, and if you don't study or... Read More do the homework, you will fall behind. It's for your own benefit, anyways! Now that I'm in job search, I can full-heartedly say that my career coach is absolutely amazing and super helpful. A tip I would give is to start practicing DS&A problems halfway through the bootcamp on your own so you don't have to stress about it as much like I am right now after the bootcamp. This bootcamp give you amazing pair programming experiences to talk about, and also group projects and solo projects for your portfolio. If I could do it again, I would, and I would start doing one DS&A problem every day or every other day or something.. starting from week 7 probably. I would definitely recommend App Academy though!

I decided to enroll in the 6-month full-time online software engineering bootcamp and it was one of the best decisions that I have made. It is an intensive course that requires a time commitment of 60-80 hours per week due to the very fast-paced nature... Read More of the course, but no prior experience is required and I feel like I have a solid foundation of knowledge to enter the tech industry for the first time. The TAs were very helpful in helping me understand some of the more difficult concepts. I have made many friends in the process of taking this course as well. I highly recommend this course if you are trying to enter the tech industry for the first time as a software engineer and don't know where to start.

App Academy is good at what it does, it teaches you how to learn things fast and apply them. The program is very fast paced and you do learn a lot, and when I say a lot I mean a lot. I took the 24 week online program, and it was a good experience especially... Read More during the pandemic. It was hard, but doable if you do the homework and put in effort to study for the assessments. There was only really two weeks that were really hard, but overall I passed without deferring once. The Cons of App Academy are maybe the strike system? I mean if you have 3 alarms for each check in you theoretically should not get any strikes. I am currently in the sprint week, so I do not have any opinion on the job support yet, but so far the leads for jobs are good, the workshops available seem helpful as well. Overall I would recommend App Academy to someone looking into a bootcamp. I do want to say that you should have a general knowledge of coding or take a prep course before starting(not required), but it helps you get through the first few weeks easier.

To anyone considering changing career paths, I couldn’t recommend App Academy enough! Before I applied, I watched countless YouTube videos and read many reviews and reddit forums about whether or not App Academy was for me. I never really heard anything... Read More bad about them so it almost seemed cult-ish but after eventually doing it, I can see why so many people recommend because it changed my life. I was working at a dead-end job as a landscaper, and couldn’t afford to move out of my parents house. I dropped out of college because it was two expensive and didn’t really have any other plan. I knew a few people who attended App Academy and decided to pull the trigger and quit both my jobs. I did the JavaScript Bootcamp prep which was kind of expensive but I did think that it gave me a head start on learning JavaScript. Although, in hindsight, there are many online resources that would’ve made a great alternative as well! I did the 16-week Ruby immerse program and it was tough. Very tough. I for-sure had a few mental breakdowns about passing exams but looking back, there is nothing they teach that it too complicated to learn, it’s just a lot in a short amount of time. You need to know how to pace yourself so you don’t burn out and I recommend getting as far ahead in App Academy Open before starting the official course. And do the homework! It is very important! After the 16 weeks, I was able to get a fully remote frontend developer role paying 90k+ one week after graduating. It seems like it’s almost too good to be true but App Academy really does prepare you for a job not only the curriculum, but also helping prepare your LinkedIn/ social platforms and mock interviewing. If you are uncomfortable with your life, take the leap!!