App Academy

App Academy is a great experience with lots to learn. The program is a long 12 week program, 13 for SF, and has you coding and interacting with others everyday from 9 am - 6 pm. In addition to the days work, you have readings and homework to prepare you for the next day making App Academy a full-time experience. While it does take up your entire life for many weeks, the programming experience is great and you definitely learn a lot. Being in an environment with others trying to achieve the same goal allows you to bounce ideas off one another which helps facilitate problem solving, depending on who you're working with.
Pros:
- Working with others was by-far, one of the best experiences. Being able to talk your code out with another coding individual helped me many times.
- Rewardi...

Pros - App Academy goes over a good amount of material at a great pace - really providing us the tools to become full stack engineers in three months. I like the amount of practice we get with critical skills like React, which gives us an edge over certain candidates that may have more theoretical/backend focus. The staff is friendly, helpful, and knowledgable. I really enjoyed the work environment as well. We were pushed and challenged to be the best we could be, but also guided and not left without help.

Cons - I wish we had more time to work on our projects, but we only have a limited amount of time to cover so many things. It can definitely feel draining at times, but that's just the nature of a bootcamp. The price tag is a bit steep, but deserving with the >99% success rate. Ove...

App Academy has been an incredible experience. Just a handful of weeks ago, I had little to no knowledge of coding but now am proficient in Rails, CSS, HTML, and multiple JavaScript frameworks. However, to succeed in this program, it is imperative that you commit yourself 100% to it. That can mean giving up a lot, but as long as you are willing and able to put in the work, App Academy will give you the resources to learn more than you would think possible. A lot of that is in part due to how they structure the course. Most days, you will be pair programming with a partner, which creates a much more collaborative environment, in which people learn to help one another through problems. I feel as though this was the best way possible for my own learning, as it teaches you both how to...

App academy is no joke. You will spend every single day, night and day for the next 9 weeks reading new material, watching videos, doing homework and debugging, all the while drinking endless cups of coffee. You are required to check in 3 times a day (9AM, 1:30PM, and 4:00PM) or you will get a strike. 10 strikes and you're out. Overall, you will learn Ruby, SQL, Rails, JavaScript, React, and Redux. You won't get much practice on HTML/CSS, until you get to your full stacks in week 8, where you put everything together to clone a website. For the first 7 weeks, the daily routine is basically HTML/CSS in the morning, lecture until about lunch time, then pair programming the rest of the day. The last 30 minutes are spent with your "circle" discussing your day. The evenings are spent on readi...

I was a part of the NYC March cohort (Mar - Jun 2018) and purposely waited to write my review until I accepted a job after completing the program.

App Academy has changed my life; within 8 months, I quit my old non-technical job, took the course, went through interviewing and accepted a job as a software engineer (have been working for 1 month now). I think very favorably of the program overall, but want to provide some quick bullets to answer questions that I know I had when considering if App Academy was right for me:

1. How long does it take to get a job after finishing the program?
- I feel very fortunate in that I was connected with a company with an App Academy alum at my graduation night (the final week of the program) and wrapped up my interview cycle with them in 2 week...

Your life will change (super cliché/corny, I know, but it’s kind of true) after finishing this program. Especially if you don't have any technical background, like myself.

As for the prepwork that App Academy provides, the curriculum isn’t as well developed as it could be, and you’re going to run into a lot of frustration with realizing that the things you need to learn to do some of the exercises are covered in later chapters or that in the later chapters. I recommend going out of your way to look up your own documentation of the concepts introduced in the Alpha Course Curriculum. Chris Pine’s Intro to Ruby free online course helped me a lot in that regard, you can google it but I believe App Academy should have also linked you to that resource.

The program is intense, even for...

This is the best place to go to if you need to learn a lot about coding in a short amount of time. It is definitely challenging but also rewarding when you get to full stack projects. The more I learn, the more I figure out that there is a lot I don't know about. But App Academy will teach you the fundamentals to learn other aspects of coding much quicker.

App Academy is an incredibly rewarding experience — I've been attending the program in SF for 9 weeks, and just finished the first section of the course, and I can't even describe how much I've enjoyed it. We've learned Ruby, SQL, Javascript, React, Redux, Rails, and completed a full-stack clone of an existing application. There are people of all ages and backgrounds here. The youngest being 17 (by a pretty wide margin), and the oldest 40+. There are quite a few CS majors, but also people with engineering, accounting, sales, etc. backgrounds. However, the gender ratio for this cohort was pretty bad: about 1/12 are female. There are definitely people who are a lot better at coding from the start than others, which may change over the course of the program, so be prepared for that.

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Attending App Academy has been one of the most rewarding experiences I've had. There were many times where I felt completely lost, but the TA staff at App Academy was always super accommodating and willing to patiently teach any of us that needed the help. I can't thank them enough for the help they gave me every time I felt ready to give up. If you are willing to drop everything and commit 9 weeks to see if coding is for you, there isn't a program out there I'd recommend more so than App Academy.

Quick disclaimer- I just finished the course, so I don't have a job yet. I'll just talk about the experience I have to this point.

The way the curriculum works is that you have 9 weeks of the learning curriculum. You learn Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, React, Redux, SQL, and more. You also create your full-stack project.
The next 3 weeks is the career curriculum. Here they teach you what you need to do to get a job, and what you should expect. During this time, you create a javascript project.

First off let me say, it is a difficult program. When they say 100 hours/week, it's literally 100 hours per week. It is a pretty hard thing to get used to. Also, during the first 9 weeks, there are 6 assessments that you have to pass. If you don't pass 2, your out. So kind of harsh. However, a...

You know when you were a kid and you kind of thought your parents or grown ups had everything figured out? And then you grow up to realize they're pretty much winging it? Elements of App Academy feel a bit like that.

To be clear, I really enjoyed App Academy and thought it was about as good as one could do trying to teach this amount of material in a very condensed period of time. But I don't think aA should remain complacent because there is definitely room for improvement. For instance, when you first arrive, you learn a bit about the TAs, some of whom may have just graduated from aA the week before. This isn't inherently a bad thing, but you do see a big disparity between TAs who have more experience and those that are hot off the presses for lack of a better term. This becomes mo...

Imagine having maybe a couple hours a day to sleep to take a break and sleep for maybe 7-8 hours and working for the rest of the time. If not the complete 3 months, that is what most of my time in the last three months was like. It was actually and amazing experience though. Learning so much in such a short time is an achievement in itself.

A lot of people will tell you the exams are the most stressful part of the program but I strongly disagree. If you spend your time focusing on the information and studying with your peers, the exams are almost always a guaranteed pass. The real stress kicks in week 10 when the training wheels are officially removed. You are forced to complete not only a full-stack web application, but a javascript browser game and a code intensive while preparing yourself for the job search. I am in no way ready to start a career as a software developer but App Academy definitely gave me the tools I need to continue learning and preparing for a job I actually want.

Bottom line: As long as you know what you're getting yourself into, App Academy is a great experience. I would do it all over again if...

I enjoyed the program overall. It was stressful though dealing with the tests and the daily checkin times. After completing the code intensive part of the curriculum I felt like I had a good understand of the materials, but I would need more time to cement the knowledge within me. The teachers were very helpful and a good support system to have when things got stressful. It was a worth while program.

Discaimer: I am getting a free hoodie to write this review. That being said it is actually how I feel about the program. Apply grains of salt as desired.

As a whole I reallly loved my time at app academy. I had a great cohort and great instructors. Everyone is very helpful an encouraging, but there will be no handhoding. You wil be thrown in and encouraged to learn and teach yourself a good amout. This is a good thing as those skills will become paramount in being able to learn more as you go.

My background was not in anything even slightly related to coding in any way. I found the program challenging throughout and sometimes even felt like i could not mae it through. Alas i did so thats good. Be aware that when they say you will be spending 90-100 hours a week working this is n...

Pros: They will make you a software engineer experienced in Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, React, Readux, PostgreSQL, RSpec, Capybara, Jest, Engyme, HTML5, CSS3. You will do lot is pair programming and work in Test Driven Development

Cons: Its very intense, you will have to forget about your self and rest of ur the world. You will be working for at least 16hrs a day. Assessment days are the worst ones. If you fail two assessments you get kicked out, even a single thought of getting kicked out will wreck your nerves. It’s the hardest thing I have ever done in life. You will be competing against CS graduates and folks who have been preparing for it for a year. I came unprepared, so had to work 4 times harder than few people of my cohort.

I attended App Academy's bootcamp prep premium remote course. After completing the course I interviewed with Hack Reactor, App Academy and Fullstack Academy. I was accepted to both Hack Reactor and Fullstack Academy after my first interview. App Academy asked me to do a follow up interview. I decided I would like to study remotely, so I chose not to do the follow up interview because A/a does not offer a remote immersive at this time. Bootcamp prep was great! The staff and tutors were very helpful, professional and great at teaching the material. The tutoring sessions over skype were awesome. If you want to get into one of the top bootcamps, I highly recommend App Academy's bootcamp prep!

App Academy is definitely the most challenging thing I've ever done. You will learn alot in 12 weeks, but be prepared to put everything(social life) aside for 12 weeks. The program is very stressful and fast paced. All my classmates were super smart. This program drains you mentally, physically, and emotionally, but if you put in the work, it will be worth it in the end.

You get what you put in. You have to study super hard for the assessments (15% of my cohort was dismissed for failing them). You should apply if you like writing code! The program is really hard though, and they are not exaggerating when they say 80 hours a week.

One of the most difficult and rewarding experiences of my life! App Academy will introduce you to difficult and extremely interesting materials at a pace you didn't know you were capable of learning at. I knew only a little bit of ruby going in and am now well versed in Ruby, JavaScript and more and am capable of developing single-page web apps. App academy has been one of the most rewarding educational experiences of my life.