Claim Academy

Overall, I learned a lot and was challenged by Claim. I do not regret signing up and recommend others to sign up with Claim. Claim is very supportive and will help you propel yourself tremendously. I currently am going into my sophomore year of college... Read More and majoring in computer science. I decided to sign up with claim to prepare myself for my college degree and I feel after completing the 12 week full stack java bootcamp that I am more than prepared for the next 3 years of college. I will say during my 12 weeks at Claim there were a couple circumstances. We had a teacher change after the fourth week which made the next 3 weeks more challenging than I expected. However, a group of students and myself banded together and overcame those 3 weeks. The remaining 6 weeks of the course with our teacher, Lamar, was the best experience I have ever had learning about coding and building a real world application. Do not hesitate and sign up with Claim. I promise you will come out with loads of knowledge and confidence that you will get a job or succeed in college!

The instructors and mentors were extremely helpful. I learned more than what I expected in 3 months. You will have to put in effort on your end though. A lot about the bootcamp is teaching yourself but the instructors are always there when you get lost.... Read More

When Claim Academy defined itself as a boot camp and expressed how time consuming and intense the work would be to me, I was expecting a mentally grueling 12 weeks. Instead, I found it to be very laid back, with only 3 hours of lecture a day, and the... Read More rest of the time to work alone or in groups. I often wished for more class time, even though learning hands outside lecture hours was invaluable. My class in particular had some issues with teachers. One left the school halfway through, then another led in a difficult to follow manner. Our final instructor was phenomenal, however. They also have non-instructor mentors on-hand that are great assistance. One of my biggest grievances was the erratic nature of their schedules. We started the course off doing class at 10 am, but after two or three weeks it was switched to 4pm without any warning or reason. They also provide "company spotlights" and "alumni meetings", which are great, but were also often scheduled directly over our already limited class time. A lot of these spotlight hours are also sprung up randomly with only an hour or two warning, which personally led to me missing many of them. As for the content, I can safely say that I do now know how to code, when I had zero experience or knowledge before coming here. Although I do feel like there is so much I don't know or understand, that would be expected from leaving any school. Most learning comes from real life experience. I used the VETTEC program to fund my way through this school. Having done that, I would tell anybody with the same capability to go for it. I don't know if I would feel the same way if I had paid out-of-pocket. I'll leave that opinion to somebody who had done that. Since, I'm only graduating at the time I write this, I haven't received much job assistance yet. They claim to be very helpful. I just hope they don't just copy and paste everything they find off of indeed that requires 5+ years of experience.

Can improve, at least needs full time instructors. Overall, there are better options, but Claim does have potential, although they must be willing to take suggestions and be willing to improve. Although it was 12 weeks long, the course was really only... Read More on for 3 hours a day, schedules got shifted around depending on the instructors' other employment and communication (basecamp) was a thorn in the side of the students.

Claim Academy will challenge you to push yourself through the arduous task of learning Java as well as Front end programming technology. They will give you access to renowned Lecturers and mentors who will be there to help guide you through your learning... Read More process as well as your practical assignments. You will take your newly gained knowledge and be challenge to complete projects that are difficult, but with the aforementioned mentors and teachers you have the tools. You will come out of the experience better because of the experience and will have met many interesting people along a similar journey from around the world.

I believe Claim Academy is a great opportunity for anyone looking to challenge themselves with learning a new skill and possibly a new career path. From an administrative standpoint, Travis Wyrick and Matthew Hook were excellent in helping me find out... Read More about the VETTEC program to pay for the course. Training wise Denish Otieno and Lamar Myles were as good as it gets to help new students understand such complex material. They were always helpful and wanted students to learn. Also, your fellow classmates were very helpful in helping you understand problems you are having trouble with. If you put in the work it is incredible what you will receive from this program.

Pros: well reviewed, approved by VA and MO Dept of Higher Education, interesting and well constructed syllabus, helped me to learn to code, staff was very helpful and friendly, and the VA process was smooth and painless cons: if you cant handle immersive,... Read More this isnt the course for you.

This is a life-changing course for anyone willing to put in the hard work it takes to make it through to the end. At the end of the course you'll have real-world, hands-on experience, and real projects to showcase to potential employers. The staff are... Read More all outstanding at what they do, from the instructors, to the mentors, to the back-office support. This academy has my highest recommendation and it's reputation as a top coding academy is well-earned and deserved.

Change is not easy for anyone. But for those who have the courage to push themselves for three months, Claim Academy will channel your persistent efforts toward a positive career change. As a Full Stack Java Boot Camp graduate, I experienced this guided... Read More change firsthand. Denish Otieno skillfully and patiently taught us core Java for the first three weeks, with clever examples and labs to push us to experience the important concepts and nuances of the Java language. After this, the instructors built on this foundation with frameworks and tool sets which allowed us to tie our Java data models to persistent databases, control the flow of information here with responsive and data-driven web front ends. This was done with nightly classes and several practical projects which pushed us just a bit beyond what what we knew when the project was assigned, giving us goals on which to focus. While it remained fast-paced, Alex Duncan and the instructors were on hand to guide us to finding and fixing our errors, teaching us how to solve problems while pushing us to embrace new methods necessary for a full stack developer to succeed in the industry. Alex in particular, tenaciously tackled every bug we brought him and with utmost patience showed us how to move forward. With our unexpectedly large group, it was difficult to get detailed feedback on our project code, since most of the mentoring time was used for guided troubleshooting. If you stick with the curriculum, you will be made ready to tackle technical challenges, present a polished resume, interview well, and make that career change/bump Claim Academy claims. The more you put into it, the more drastic and marketable your change will be.

Overall a great experience and time meeting new friends and connections, and giving you the tools to start a new life and occupation. Buyer beware—Preparation is key, you must be able to sacrifice something to get the full experience. Make the sacrifice... Read More and see results. Never be afraid to ask questions.