Coding Temple

I had never done any coding before I enrolled in the Coding Temple bootcamp. Within 3 months of graduation, I landed a software job! I highly recommend Coding Temple to anyone looking to make a career change, learn more about coding, or to advance a current... Read More career. It was a great experience all around, from the initial contacts with the staff, to the instructors and classmates, to the career support.

I had a great experience at Coding Temple! My instructor was Nate Welter and he did an amazing job at adjusting the pace of the course so that everybody had a working understanding of the material. There really was no question he couldn't answer on the... Read More spot, and if by chance something did come up, he was very resourceful and had an answer nearly immediately (which is probably the greatest asset there is for a programmer). Our TA was also very helpful and would stay late after class on an individual basis if anyone felt they were falling behind (spoiler- they wouldn't be falling behind for long). I can't personally attest to the abilities of the other instructors, but I know they're a tight knit group, and I've heard nothing but good things from students of their classes. Algo Night is offered every week to brush up on skills, and the support system for post-graduates is relentless, you will never feel left behind. If you're looking for a bootcamp to get yourself a full-time engineering job or just want a better understanding of computer systems for your current placement, look no further.

After spending 3.5+ years in financial client service, I was ready to try a something new. Thanks to Coding Temple for providing the perfect opportunity to learn to code and completely rebrand myself. Coding Temple provides boot camp students with fantastic... Read More and friendly personal connections. My instructor Terrell McKinney did a great job going through a comprehensive curriculum with us and my TAs Ryan Rhoades and John Loveland were a blast to work with. There are also evening and weekend TAs to make sure you are always able to get help when you need it. We cover lots of technologies, but just to name a few, GitHub, Python, SQL, RESTful APIs, Flask, TypeScript React, JavaScript, Numerical Python, Python Pandas, etc. After the completion of the ten week program, students who complete the course with sufficient proficiency (plenty of support to achieve this if you simply commit to it!) are presented with a truly impressive array of job-seeking tools, including professional mock interviews through Skilled Inc and a comprehensive job board with Huntr. Plenty of guest speakers from all over the industry are invited in and they are truly inspiring and helpful for the beginning of a software engineer's journey. I finished in mid-December 2020 and now I am neck deep in the job search. With these tools at my disposal I feel confident that I will be able to embark upon a fulfilling career in software engineering. Before signing up, please note that the program requires a lot of commitment. In my case, I was not working at all, not even part time, during the boot camp. That part can potentially be tricky. My honest advice is that if you need to work at least part time, do not enroll for the full time course. Just do a part time course. Students with unshakeable commitments outside of the boot camp seemed to really struggle for it. Those with the most commitment made the most progress and seem to be the most likely to succeed in coding in general.

I went into the program knowing that I wanted to perform data analysis, with some experience performing statistical analysis in an academic setting, but completely uninitiated in computer programming. I had never done any programming/web development,... Read More I appreciated the introduction to a broad catalogue of technologies. If you're familiar with programming languages you might want more depth, but for a newbie it was a perfect introduction and I'm now confident in my ability to go deeper on my own time. Pros: I was introduced to a broad swath of technologies. This not only helped me narrow down my interests (data engineering), but it also made me feel more comfortable talking about programming in social and professional settings. I also appreciate the broad introduction because I developed skills I would have otherwise overlooked. Instructors were knowledgeable and approachable. I was surprised that I made great connections with my peers/classmates. Cons: Hard to call it a con, but if you are unprepared for the pace it can be detrimental: the program moves very quickly, it's very easy to fall behind and feel overwhelmed if you don't check in with yourself and others OFTEN.

I chose to make a career change much later in life. Much later than most of my classmates. There are sooooo many different options for bootcamps out there, which made this decision even tougher. I researched and researched and decided Coding Temple had... Read More it all and in only 10 weeks. I knew it would be tough, and it sure was! Thankfully, I was dedicated and determined and that is key here. You must be ready to put your social life aside and really put in your time. Coding Temple was a wonderful experience for me. Nicole was very fun and pleasant to work w/ for onboarding and mid-course reviews. My instructor (Derek) and TA (Lucas) are incredible at their jobs. They were very thorough and always available to help, if we got lost or it didn't click right away. I aim to be at their level someday.. Marlene (Alumni Director/ Career Coach) knows everything there is to know about resume-building and interviewing. She's an amazing support/resource to have in this process of job hunting. I would highly recommend Coding Temple if you're looking to make the jump into a tech role. They have everything you need and the support to get you through the process. Two thumbs up from me!

After spending a solid two weeks weeks researching various boot camps I thought I had it whittled down to the very best ones--Springboard, Coding Temple, Hack Reactor, and some of the college led ones (Georgia Tech's and MIT's specifically). Then....... Read More I spoke with Ryan at Coding Temple. His knowledge, insight, no-pressure conversation, and just the ease with which I could talk to him about my goals, really set Coding Temple apart. I'm cautious, especially when it comes to spending more money than I ever have in my life on an educational service (aside from college), so I still pursued conversations at the other schools to make sure I wasn't being lazy or short sighted. Man, oh man, am I glad I found Coding Temple. I spoke with some of Ryan's teammates: Marlene and Marcus. They were high quality people as well. I won't write anything negative about the other schools, just make sure you speak with someone at Coding Temple before you make a decision. The live lectures with the same group of students, small class sizes, and feeling I had speaking with the members of Coding Temple led to me picking them. I took a month to prepare for the cohort. During this time I read the entire Python book they recommended, and did the same with the HTML book. A student in the school's Slack recommended CodeCademy for extra preparation. I'm glad he did, as it enabled me to go deeper with the teachers once the cohort started (I took the basic and intermediate CSS courses on CodeCademy before the cohort began). I had the pleasure of working with Terrell and Ryan, they were quite the teaching duo. It was fun, it was challenging, and I learned WAY more than I would have on my own, even if all I did during the 10 weeks was study. That's the point of a boot camp. It was neat to watch other students come in with different levels of knowledge. No matter where someone started, they ended the program with a much greater knowledge than when we began. I'd like to make special shout out to Nicole and Marlene. Nicole hosts various games during the program and she's around to talk when times get stressful. It's nice to know she's there. One of my favorite things during the cohort were the guest speaking events Nicole sets up. I LOVE to ask questions and it was a real opportunity to get a much deeper understanding into the various aspects of the industry and what the day to day work is like for people in different roles, at different skill levels, and in different industries. And now, Marlene. She's a driving force behind the value proposition of the Coding Temple program. No other program that I found offered the kind of job support that Coding Temple does with Marlene. You can feel it, and if you're careful in the questions you ask when deciding on a school, you can deduce the way other schools operate. At the end of the day I think that's important to remember. These are all businesses--their goal is to make money. Pick carefully, but do pick. You can't go wrong with Coding Temple. They're an excellent group of people, very knowledgeable, and the follow up job support is real. It's not just you being in a pool of Alumni on Slack and now it's up to you to figure it out or attend group webinars. You'll actually get someone to talk to for the long term with Coding Temple. I'm convinced I've made some life long friends during my time at Coding Temple. I'll always look at the family that helped train me fondly.

Hands down the best decision of my life. I came into this program with absolute no experience and left with enough experience to build a career! I am beyond grateful to have made the connects I did during my time at Coding Temple. A special shoutout to... Read More the most understanding and patient instructors Brian Stanton and Kevin Beier. I am beyond grateful to have them in my corner. I also want to give a shoutout to Marlene Tang and Nicole Shannon for always encouraging me. As long as you put the work in you will be rewarded!

I took Coding Temple's 10 week full-stack developer course and it was amazing. I went into the program with no coding experience whatsoever, and Coding Temple got me from there to job ready in less than 3 months. Since there was so much information, sometimes... Read More I needed extra help, and there was always assistance available (even on weekends!!). My instructor Terrell was very knowledgeable and the assistant instructor Ryan was awesome. Between the 2 of them every question anyone asked in class was answered thoroughly and usually they gave us a link to some additional info for us to look at if we wanted to as well. Even though it was a lot of work, Terrell and Ryan taught the class in a way that made it fun to learn. After graduation Coding Temple provides a career services program that is amazing. Marlene is an incredibly valuable resource, giving so much insight to resumes, the ins and outs of interviewing, and how to prepare yourself and your work that I really felt confident about the whole process. Nicole was so great too. She organized activities and game nights and things that really focused on team building, which is a really important aspect of this whole thing, because these relationships turn into networks, and that leads to good things. Overall, I only have positive things to say about Coding Temple. I cannot believe how much I learned in such a short period of time, and how cool and fun the things I learned are. This was totally worth the investment, and I cannot recommend Coding Temple highly enough.

If you're looking for speed, this is the way to go. Take the time to set the rest of your life aside for ten weeks and dive in - this program will absolutely teach you what you need for entering the industry. Not only will you learn the technical skills,... Read More but you'll get the advice you need to navigate the industry, pass interviews, and more. The course is not just oriented around getting you a job, but truly giving you, the student, the requisite resources to continue growing after graduation and deeply understanding the code you'll write and work with. A word of advice to students who enroll.. Spend the time with the pre-work basics. I highly recommend at least googling some of the topics that are listed on the course offering ahead of time - Coding Temple staff are able to both teach people who have never written a line of code before, and they are also able to help people who have prior experience to "polish" their code, and in all things seek elegance. The staff at CT are the true gems of the program that set the institution apart from the rest - whether that's extra student activities and the community built, or the career guidance by people who could be elsewhere but have chosen to look after the students instead, or the knowledgeable TAs and instructors who are ready to help. I highly recommend Coding Temple to anyone who wants to take coding seriously, and fall in love with an incredible field of study. And to those who are concerned (naturally) with getting a job as soon as possible after graduation... I had interviews scheduled before I'd finished graduating, and had classmates walk out from graduation into jobs the following Monday. It works.

I chose this program for all the different languages you learn during the program. I had great instructors and great guidance into a career afterward. I can't imagine going anywhere else! You cover everything and there is always someone available to answer... Read More questions.