Le Wagon

I started my career in the shipping industry (oceangoing tankers) and got quite frustrated by its conservative working methods, especially the lack and quality of software I had to work with. Coming from a background of economics, I understood linear programming problems but had no knowledge about coding. After playing around with excel macros I learned that I enjoyed these kind of problems but did not know how I could get into coding as I hadn't studied computer science (and I certainly did not intend to spend years in school again). Also the false idea that you have to love math left me somewhat reluctant. I decided to take a break and travel for some time.

Close to the end of my trip I ran into the concept of coding bootcamps. I don't remember what the lead was that made me look ...

Le Wagon taught me how to build an app front to back, that’s true, but it was so much more than that - it taught me how to structure my ideas, where to start and how to build it, it taught me how to learn new things and gave me a new way of approaching the subjects I have yet to learn. I had been doing some courses before enrolling, going over subjects that I only managed to grasp during my time at the bootcamp. Your mindset is everything and the experience of working in a tightly knit collective is invaluable - seeing that I wasn’t the one struggling at times or having people to celebrate with when we got a feature to work helped my learning journey. I also want to thank our driver here in Copenhagen - together with our teachers, he was a constant source of encouragement and support.

Le wagon has been an incredible experience in an uncountable amount of ways. If you’re considering doing a coding bootcamp, choose Le wagon.

Where did it start?
My interest in coding started when I experienced some limitations at work; I really wanted to create something and I knew how it should work or look but I didn’t know how to tell the computer exactly what I wanted. I researched coding and web development and used many free online tutorials, and I felt like I had made some progress, I could really write some lines of code and manipulate things on a website (felt pretty cool), but I didn’t know where to go from there, I could write some lines, knew some syntax, but there was no way I could create a full product, where would I start? After drowning myself in all the resources ...

Le Wagon was one of the experiences in my life that I could call "unforgettable". Despite having a stable job and great benefits as a multinational executive, I have decided to leave my job and retake my career in the IT world. The main reasons for that are, firstly, I love technology, secondly I was tired of the bureaucratic environment and, lastly, I love new challenges. It's important to highlight that I started my career as a developer in the mid-1990s, graduated in Computer Science in 1996, and finished my first MBA in 2002. So, it is easy to say the world has changed a lot since then both in terms of quantity and in terms of technology. After developing VBA code to help with my financial work, I have identified coding was what I would like to do again. I had started writing code o...

I am very satisfied with my experience at Le Wagon Bali. During my time at the bootcamp I reached all the learning objectives I set myself. Prior to Le Wagon, I was a business student with an entrepreneurial mind-set and I was frustrated with the fact that I could not turn my business ideas into reality. I thus came to Bali with the will to learn how to code credible MVPs and that’s what happened. Le Wagon allowed me to learn how to build web applications with a clean front-end and relatively complex back-end incorporating APIs, external ruby libraries and “gems”. Thus, following the Le Wagon curriculum one is able to build a multitude of different web applications ranging from simple websites to dynamic platforms with multiple users, payments, geo-location etc. Knowing this in the digi...

After being graduated from Top French Business School, I had various professional experiences where i was in contact with programmers. Fastly, I realised that I had no legitimacy to run my project correctly because I was not able to talk their language properly. My conclusion : I needed to understand them to be more efficient in my work.

I heard about Le Wagon when I was in Business School while they organised a workshop and I really loved their methodology: learn by doing. So I decided to get in touch Le Wagon Barcelona and few interviews after, I was on board.

On my first day, I have directly been amazed by the variety of profiles in my batch : engineers, medical students … I probably couldn’t have the opportunity to work with so many different people in one place. And it had be...

I did a bachelor's degree in business administration and engineering a few years ago. Since then I have been working in Ecommerce Startups in Berlin.
I work a lot with data and have already been able to teach myself SQL. I wanted to develop my skills more towards IT and was introduced to LeWagon by a friend.
LeWagon really has a great program. But what really exceeded my expectations were the people. They all had completely different backgrounds. This made the learning experience all the more exciting. Especially the connection with the great city of Lisbon was perfect. The teachers are always helpful and friendly on all topics. In a short time the batch becomes a small family in which everyone supports each other. The Alumni Network is also extraordinary and probably also with the gr...

Le Wagon Bali was one of the most intensive educational & fun months of my life! Dirk & the other staff made sure traveling across the world was easy by providing us accommodation recommendations and a fun environment to always have something to do. The structure of the course was extremely cool and allowed for both beginner and slightly more advanced students have a filled day. If you really understood a lesson one day you still have bonus exercises that introduce new topics and offer fun challenges to push your learning to the next level. For me - I already knew how to build Wordpress & ClickFunnels sites but those don’t require much, if any coding experience. Since the batch - I have been able to build custom mapping estimating software and more importantly for me - hire someone to b...

I did batch 205 of Le Wagon in Lisbon, finishing in December 2018. It was a great learning experience, very rewarding and challenging!
I have a business background, and was working in the retail industry for a few years. I've always been curious about how products are built and how to develop products tailored to consumers' needs. I didn't have any previous knowledge of programming but thought it could be interesting to learn how to code. A friend of mine told me about Le Wagon, and after checking the program and reviews from previous students, it seemed like a great option, so I quit my job and joined the bootcamp.
The bootcamp was very intensive and demanding. It really pushed me forward and made me step out of my comfort zone but it was totally worth it. I now know that anyone can ...

Before I took the jump and booked onto batch #190 in London I was a full time swim coach with no prior coding experience. Now, having graduated two months ago, I am Junior front-end engineer at an awesome sales start up in London. The course at Le Wagon can genuinely change your career path and your life as it gives you the technical knowledge and team work experience that employees are looking for from their next Junior Developer. On the course the teachers (most are past students) will happily help you with any problem, ranging from a small typo to a error that takes half the day to fix. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Le Wagon and encourage anyone who wants to gain the technical knowledge to become a Junior Developer or set up their own business to apply and get on with it!

Le Wagon makes you think as a developer starting from day one.
The learning method is extraordinary since it makes you get so much knowledge in a short period of time. When I started, I didn’t have any previous coding experience, and in just two months I learned how to build full web applications and much more.
The way the course has been created makes you improve day after day and also teaches you how to struggle without giving up, allowing you to create amazing stuff in no time.
In Le Wagon, you don’t only learn to code, but also to work in a team.
Coding the daily exercises with a different classmate every day, and spend more than two weeks building real projects in a small team clearly enhances the bootcamp experience.
When you decide to join Le Wagon, you don’t only join a boo...

In 2016, I voluntarily joined a 2-hour coding workshop by Le Wagon at the University of Mannheim in Germany. It was an optional workshop which was offered as part of a congress I participated in. This was the first time, I actually noticed how much I enjoyed coding. One year later, I joined a young e-commerce business where I was exposed to SQL and again I figured, that I really enjoyed it. After finishing my bachelor’s degree, I did not feel like moving on the way I did for my future job. So I remembered the coding workshop I did in 2016 and started researching about coding schools all around the world. In the end, Le Wagon convinced me the most, as I had some minor experiences with their teachers during my workshop in university and at the same time it was the shortest and least expen...

I graduated from Le Wagon at the end of Nov 2018, and now I’m working at a FinTech startup as a full-stack developer in Japan. Looking back, I’m sure Le Wagon is the best choice if you really want to change your life.

Here are the things I liked:

- Extremely well-organized learning materials and resources, which you’ll think of like a bible even after

- Well balanced challenges given every day, keeping you concentrated regardless of your initial skill-level

- Great teachers and TAs, all of them are friendly and taught us that coding is fun

- Great classmates, and community where graduates and teachers all over the world are actively communicating

I was a banker in investment bank before joining Le Wagon. Though I didn’t have any coding skill, I really wanted to change ...

8 years ago I had a programming course in my engineering degree. I was really confused, did not see where this knowledge could be applied and found the teoretical approach rather demoralizing.

After University I started working in management consulting. The projects often involved working with developers, and soon I realized I didn’t quite grasp what they were talking about. Databases, Front End, Back end and APIs.
I googled the terms, but did not understand how it all was related

I figgured I could take some online courses, but struggled to commit. With a full-time job and a kid, it is hard to find the time and the motivation, when you don’t see where this knowledge fits in.

One day I read about Le Wagon in a tech magazine. 9 weeks to learn to code, that sounded great, and...

I’ve always been interested in learning programming, and after finishing my bachelor with a business major, it seemed to be just the perfect time to actually start.
I pretty quickly found out that I would prefer a full-time bootcamp over self-learning, and that’s how I ended up in Milan starting the 9-week LeWagon full stack bootcamp.

Your usual day at LeWagon begins with lectures in the morning, where new concepts are introduced along comprehensive examples. In the afternoon you then have to solve related problem sets, in order to deepen that knowledge.

From the first day on, Francesco and his team were doing their best to make this experience as nice as possible. Every concept was taught thoroughly and during the problem session, no question remained unanswered.
This is where...

Having spent many years as a sales assistant and after many failed job searches, I knew the time had come for me to take the learning route in order to change careers to where my interests lie. But how? While searching for coding courses I stumbled across Le Wagon (only ranked #1 coding bootcamp in Europe). I decided to take the punt and boy was I right to do so.

It’s pretty amazing just how much you can learn in 9 weeks. It’s very intense and can be overwhelming at times considering the amount of information there is to take in, but the teachers and teaching assistants were great. They were always on hand to help. I especially liked the fact that they aided me in finding solutions rather than just giving them to me. I found that this helped my understanding massively.

Le Wagon ha...

Had an amazing time at Le Wagon Barcelona, great learning environment and teachers were the best! If you want to learn how to code and code well, this is the place for it !

After eight years working in Finance and Real Estate I felt the need for something new, something fresh that would inspire and motivate me again every morning. I didn’t want to look back in 30 years thinking I had never tried anything else, so I quit my job and started to look what else was out there.

In parallel I have had an idea of a web application but I had always lacked time and competence to really do anything concrete with it. Eventually I realised it would cost me the same to have a demo built by a developer, without being sure what I could really do with it, or do a bootcamp and learn how to do it myself. After a friend recommended Le Wagon as the best way to learn coding I decided to jump in. After all I had nothing to lose and it seemed like a great way to open new perspe...

I always had, somewhere in my mind, the idea to, one day, create my startup, run my own company.
So I decided to start my journey with an International Business School (That’s what most people do). At the end of the Business School, I had to fulfil a 6 months internship, where I met recently graduated people from Le Wagon. They showed me what is coding and told me about Le Wagon and how amazing it is during and after the 3 months courses.

After this, I wanted to learn to code, this would be the next step for me to build my future. After the bootcamp, I would be able to understand and read code, and get ready to start new experiences as a developer.

Coding was fun, really fun, it’s such an amazing experience, whatever your background is!
I’m using computer everyday of my life, an...

I must confess that my expectations were incredibly high before I start the bootcamp, but in reality the course was even better than I was expecting. It starts hard, and that's necessary for you to embrace the complexity of the program, but once you understand how things work, you can do anything you can without much effort. The reality is that every one of us build super amazing applications within 2 weeks, much faster than many professional web developers. I was even able to build my personal website in 2 days, after finish the bootcamp: https://hugoabreu.pt
So, if you're looking to become a web developer, or like me, to embrace a career of technical project manager, Le Wagon is your place. I did my course in Tokyo and I can only recommend the staff from there!