App Academy

If you are looking to turn your life around then App Academy is the route to take. This bootcamp has given me not only a tremendous amount of knowledge, but confidence in myself to succeed. The teachers and the curriculum are both amazing! I would recommend... Read More to everyone.

My experience at App Academy went above and beyond my expectations for a coding bootcamp. When COVID hit, I was torn between going back to college or joining an online bootcamp. After researching many bootcamps, App Academy stood out to me because it... Read More was one of the few places that offered a shared income agreement. The quality of the curriculum was excellent, and the instructors are very qualified. I felt that all the staff and my classmates were invested in my success, and this kept me motivated through the 24 weeks online program. Each week, we covered a new topic through lectures as well as built projects to reinforce our skills through pair programming. If it any point, I had questions or needed a concept further explained, the TAs immediately offered assistance. After graduating, you will get access to many resources to support your job search. Overall, I really recommend App Academy to anybody who wants to enter the tech industry.

Hello all future software engineer and developers, If you're looking for a Bootcamp that offers problem solving, structure, and excitement; You're reading the right review! The last 6 months at App Academy have been amazing. I went from knowing nothing... Read More about coding (complete beginner) to an accomplished full stack graduate. I have made a dozen friends and of those dozen, 3- 4 will be permanent friends that I will continue to support throughout my career. The staff at App Academy is top tier, they're personable, smart, and accurate. The camp really helped me overcome my struggles with problem solving. I feel much more comfortable and can easily pair with anyone to complete a task. I recommend eating well, studying daily, and taking time to rest. I wouldn't give up my experiences at App Academy for the world.

I can honestly say that a/A was a great choice. Are they perfect? No. The homework was intense and sometimes had spelling errors which distracted, and the lectures could be long, but the staff support and projects were absolutely incredible. Their goal... Read More was to make sure each student understood the material and could build something themselves which they could then take into the job market. I've had friends do other bootcamps and I'm amazed at how well put together a/A is compared to other programs. I have to admit that it was one of the most stressful times of my life. I started at 7:30am, studied until class at 9am MST, class until 6pm, 1.5 hours for dinner, and then study until 10pm. I did this every single day, 6 days a week for 6 months. It is not for the faint of heart. I did this with 4 kids so it is possible if you have a family. I'm glad to actually have skills that I can take into the market. Good luck! App Academy is a good choice.

Pros: Covered a wide range of materials. Had a great support network from instructors, TA's, and peers. My career coach was phenomenal, would always make sure she was providing the best support possible. Was able to land a great job! Cons: Wish it was... Read More a longer program.

App Academy is one of the best bootcamp out here in NYC and California. I took the vigorous 16 week course and managed to learn domain specific languages which communicates with databases and more than one programming language. The Instructors are super... Read More kind and thoughtful, giving a clear explanation of any problems you’re encountering and the lessons are understandable as well. I learned what a 4 year college would have taught me in only 4 months.

I wanted to get into coding and do a career shift. I had absolutely no coding experience prior. I looked at some bootcamps and found App Academy to be a good fit. From my research, I knew App Academy was highly selective and very intense compared to some... Read More other bootcamps, but the graduation/placement stats were amazing. I took the Bootcamp prep program first, which is offered by App Academy to help newbies get into different full-time coding bootcamps. Of course, I applied to App Academy after that and got in, but you can apply to other top bootcamps as well. If you don't get in, they give you your money back. It is about 4 weeks long, during which I learned Javascript fundamentals and interview prep. After the Bootcamp prep, I applied for the full-time bootcamp and was accepted. During the duration of the full-time bootcamp (16 Weeks), I was truly amazed by the progress our whole cohort had made. I'll be very honest, it does get very intense and sometimes stressful, but if you are able to push through that, it is a very rewarding outcome. I hope this helps you in making a decision.

I started App Academy in the midst of Covid-19. I never had a chance to step foot in the actual building. To be honest, that scared me a lot at first. I though I needed the in person support I would have gotten if I went in. After taking the leap of faith... Read More into app academy I am actually very thankful it was online. Saving 2 hours of commute a day was a huge positive for me, especially when you're going to need to be putting in so much work outside of the classroom. The road was far from easy; and as I write this review I am about to start the job search and don't know where that will take me next. The ride has been fun thus far, and although there were many stressful nights, I am very happy I took the chance at app academy. I truly beleive that anyone who has the will to put in the work, can, and will, do great.

App Academy during Covid has been a giant disappointment. The TA's are lazy and uninformed -- the instructors mostly have no prior teaching experience and many are past graduates who were unable to land a "real" coding job after going through App Academy... Read More themselves. The "structure" of the course (If you can even call it that) is a highly technical lecture for 3-4 hours and then free time to work on problems while asking sullen and underinformed TAs for help. For this, App Academy demands $30k and will charge you about $160/day. This works out to almost $40/hour to have an unmotivated "instructor" who can't get a job as a developer push information at you for 3-4 hours a day. This is what they call "teaching" -- a criminal use of the word. If you can't keep up with the too-fast pace, unhelpful TAs, and unmotivated instructors who have no idea how to teach, you'll be kicked out of the course for a month to be "deferred" to the next cohort. No help or extra instruction whatsoever is given. You are just dropped, floundering, and App Academy washes their hands of you until you repeat with a group of fresh-faced fools with big dreams of high salaries. If you defer 3 times, App Academy kicks you out for their own lack of instruction and you are immediately forced to pay thousands of dollars for the sub-par "learning" you never managed to do. App Academy will happily blame you, the student, and maintain the party line that it is YOUR fault they can't teach while going after you for money. This course is worth AT MOST $5k. $30k is highway robbery. Please do not waste your time and money on this course, the same material is available elsewhere online for free.

Once I decided to take the leap into a bootcamp, after many recommendations by current software engineers, and also, not having the funds to go back to school for another Bachelor's, I found App Academy my very first day of searching. With every step... Read More of the enrollment process, every person that I interacted with was genuinely excited for me and offering words of encouragement. Fast-forward to the last few weeks of my program, in the midst of designing and building a solo capstone project, that encouragement and support never faltered. I was fortunate enough to have an amazing cohort of peers that helped each other learn through pair programming and extra study sessions, incredibly talented staff of TA's, Module Instructors, and outstanding APTM and PTM. This was by far the most challenging thing I've every completed, but it was the most rewarding.