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I have just completed the Web Development Immersive 2015 program at BrainStation and I had a great experience! As a complete beginner to web development, I knew I was going to experience challenges, encouragement and successes. I can say that having limited... Read More background in coding hasn’t limit the success that I have achieved. – YES ! – there were days where things got difficult. However the educators provided an amazing curriculum that was very well thought ! that being said, the educators believed in us and with their guidance and support they ensured the whole class was striving towards success together. Additionally BrainStation team has helped me land a job with there diverse network. Overall it was definitely a great experience, location and being immersed in the tech cultural.

I had a great experience in the Intro to Web Development program. As a complete beginner to web development, I found this course to be both challenging but accessible. Throughout the course, the educators, both web developers by day, were incredibly helpful... Read More and available for support outside of the class hours, which was a huge plus for me. I was incredibly impressed by what I was able to accomplish at the end of the course. The smaller projects throughout the course really helped in preparing me to be less intimidated when it came time to create my own website at the end. I would recommend to anyone looking to add web development skills to their CV.

I wish I had enrolled earlier. I don't have a background in digital marketing, but have always been interested in it as a career path. This course taught me the language, and industry best practices that have given me the confidence to apply for jobs... Read More I never would have in the past. The instructors were incredibly knowledgeable and really cared about the progress of the students. I felt like they really had skin in the game. The BrainStation Emissions team even helped me with the job hunt. All in all I left happy and confident and would recommend this to anyone who is looking to further develop their career or even make a change.

I graduated undergrad in a non tech or business related degree, but found myself naturally interested in pursuing a career in this sector. Luckily, I was able to get a position at a cool start-up but found that I was still lacking many skills to allow... Read More for career advancement. This is where I found BrainStation, and was able to learn industry best practices from fellow peers in the Tech/Business world.

I took the Intro to Web Development course so I can learn a solid foundation of CSS and HTML. I had tried to teach myself how to code through online resources such as Code Academy but as soon as I got to DIVS, I no longer could absorb the online resource. Through BrainStation, my educator and TA's were all living and breathing code all day long at their respective careers and were easily approachable, accessible, and provided us real life projects and learnings. I would highly recommend this course to anyone interested in gaining new digital skills and I plan on taking the Intermediate Web Development Course in the next cohort. That's the other thing, because the courses are part-time you can still work full-time and spend your evenings learning development.

I took BrainStation's Product Management course, and it has helped me immensely in working within my technical company. As someone with a non-technical background I was often lost when listening to senior managers discuss their roles and the life cycles... Read More of our products. After taking Product Management, not only am I better able to collaborate within the team as a whole, but I have a greater understanding of many more aspects of the design and development process.

The content covered was relevant and interesting. I really like that that our final project is based on a real life problem that we need to solve. This requires us to apply the knowledge we've been learning each week. Before I took the class, I read that... Read More the class size was small and I was really looking forward to it because it would foster better learning. Unfortunately I was enrolled in one of the biggest classes they ever had. That makes a big difference because I found that the engagement of a large group was not as dynamic as a smaller group. Overall the course addresses topics that are constantly changing. The reading material is interesting and I recommend they continue sharing valuable reading material that ties in with lessons learned that week. I would have loved to have had an in depth hands on approach to dealing with paid search for example. On the other hand each week we learn from different instructors with expertise of the topic covered. They are passionate, approachable and available to talk to us one-on-one if we have any questions.

This program has some great insight from people's professional learnings in Digital Marketing. I enjoy how the structure of the class enables the students to directly apply what they've learned that class in a real life scenario activity, and how it's... Read More applicable to our final project. While I know there are a lot of different levels of knowledge in this class, I find myself and some others not really being into the basic overviews of some things that I feel should be prerequisite knowledge, e.g. what is a brand? I understand the need for a quick recap, but I think there it too much time spend at the beginning on things like that, which could be put toward the units which need much more time to learn (e.g. paid social advertising). The instructors are very available and helpful and the guest lecturers are very keen with impressive job experience. I recommend this as an intro to digital marketing, but would love another level of depth into some units that require much more time to learn.

I am enrolled in the Intro to iOS Development course and I love it! The structured classes and experienced instructors makes learning Swift much more enjoyable. The class learning style gives students the ability to learn and solve REAL WORLD problems,... Read More which is applicable to our everyday lifestyles. The instructors are personable and can guide you in the right direction. So far I am loving my investment into the iOS course :)

I was registered for the digital marketing class at BrainStation and it was a unique experience that helped me expand my knowledge on the subject. I love that the class sizes are small and the instructors are amazingly diligent and actually care about... Read More the students. The students themselves were friendly and excited to learn making the BrainStation space an inviting and innovative place to learn in. I absolutely loved it and will definitely be taking more courses offered by BrainStation in the future!