I have been part of the Wagon Bordeaux Batch #67.
I coded when I was in high school but in university I chose to study Social Sciences. For years, I though I can't retake my programming passion. But, three months ago, I knew le Wagon. My first impression was mistrust, I can't believe be able to learn coding in just 9 weeks. I did some research and meet some Le Wagon alumni, everybody recommended le Wagon. Then I decide to enroll.
The 9 weeks were one of the most amazing experience in my life. The pedagogical curriculum is made to encourage you to learn. Everyday, we had to learn a couple of new concepts.. It was hard, but this is the only way to learn a lot in a so short time. The pace is military, you can't stop and rest, you must learn, learn, learn... A lot of effort but it's wor...

Before Le Wagon I was working as a Venture Capital Analyst and before that I was a Credit Analyst for Bpifrance in the innovation department. With my degree and working experience in engineering, the logical next step for me was to get technical skills to open up other doors. I tried to enrol for Le Wagon in Paris but it was full, so I decided London was close enough.

My experience at Le Wagon in London was amazing! The teachers and the students were all amazing people, everyone was working very hard but in a really nice atmosphere. Everyday after the morning lecture, you work with your designated buddy for the day on several exercises in order to perfectly understand the new topics. If you are stuck or have any question on an exercise, other students or teachers are always there to ...

I attended Le Wagon’s 74th batch in London and loved every moment of it. I was attracted to the course because it felt very start-up oriented, offering more than just the standard web development curriculum. The course was extremely interesting and challenging and it delivered on every aspect. I had always had projects that I wanted to try on my own but what I lacked was the technical ability to get started. Le Wagon provided that, and much more. The course is very thorough and the teachers do a marvellous job of helping you gain and solidify the knowledge which you'll then put to use on your final project. This is where all your hard work from your previous weeks comes together in building a web-based product that you either pitched and chose a team for or that you found interesting an...

My name is Mendy and I was part of Le Wagon's batch#67 in Bordeaux which ended in June 2017. For a long time, I have searched what I wanted to do with my life. I did some learning at university in psychology and dramatic arts, but college was not for me. Then one day, I found Le Wagon Bootcamp.
Being comfortables with computers ever since I was a child and being already proficient in HTML/CSS languages. I tempted my fate after many searches about it.

And I fall in love with coding, Ruby, Rails, Javascript, all ! Now, I know what I want to do with my life, Web Developper. Wagon's pedagogy played a big part in my experience. The staff and my batch were incredible too, humanly rewarding. It was 10h/day during two months and I didn't see it pass. Each lesson was exciting and it's the g...

I discovered the Wagon early 2016. They were hosting a hackathon at their headquarters and I remember the first impression I had. It can be difficult to find the balance between professionalism and fun in an office but the Wagon managed to do find it and to have this friendly vibe going on.

I come from a background in journalism and the media, with a focus on writing, reporting and digital screenwriting. To go further in that specialisation, I decided to learn how to code, to be able to create myself prototypes of the interactive experiences I offered. It was like the missing piece for my professional profile to be complete.

I had been used, with public bachelors and private education, to a very specific and old school kind of learning and teaching. Furthermore, like most students...

We all know about the fever of entrepreneurship that’s taking the world by storm.

As a multidisciplinary designer and strategic thinker, I have become an opportunist. I saw in every problem that surround me, an idea for a service, a platform, an app or whatever can be made and turned into a money making machine.

In today’* world everything is becoming digital driven. Learning to code is a must for everyone. Even kids are learning to code with legos!

Lacking coding skills, and finding that online courses weren’t sufficient I decided to join le Wagon Paris.

And it was the best decision of my life!

Everyday I learned a tons of things, everyday I got more and more comfortable with code. Everyday I was learning to communicate, build and collaborate with other developers. To su...

I had just graduated from my business degree in December but I felt that what I learned was too generic, with so many people graduating in business I thought I wasn't offering anything different, so I thought a full-stack boot camp would be a good way to differentiate myself.

I did wonder how there were so many reviews of 5 out of 5 stars on the internet. But after I started reading a few of those reviews I started to get more and more convinced. The application process was by far the smoothest and easiest I have experienced, including a quick online form and a telephone interview with Ed the manager of the London Bootcamp, one of the coolest guys I've met.

The course was very intense, and in the first two weeks I felt like most of the concepts I was taught did not have time to si...

I was part of Le Wagon Batch #74... TLDR: it’s a life changing course to take.

Unlike most of my cohort, I didn’t use Le Wagon as an opportunity to change career and become a developer. Already working in the tech industry, I felt it was important to learn to code in order to understand product development more deeply and also what developers go through. I also wanted to get enough coding chops so that I could contribute to side-projects. In both of those areas the course was a resounding success.

In particular, Le Wagon London were great. Amazing teachers, great atmosphere, and a very product centric course meant we had a lovely time and learnt a ridiculous amount in 9 short weeks. It really was one of the most intense things I’ve ever done - they’re not kidding when they say 2 y...

Before I started at Le Wagon I had been running a travel blog for several years. During that time, I became frustrated with my inability to add new features to the blog without relying on a developer. I also have plenty of ideas for new projects within the travel industry, but again, without the technical knowhow or serious investment, they were very difficult to get off the ground.

I stumbled onto Le Wagon coding school earlier this year and decided if I was ever going to take my ideas further I was going to need to learn to code. It happened to be one of the best training decisions I ever made. The course is intense, there is a lot of information to take in within a short space of time, but they took me from no knowledge of coding to being able to build a website in 9 weeks.

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At first, I attended Le Wagon because I was curious about how websites worked.
Their program is so great that at the end of the 9 (intensive) weeks, I was able to build a full web app on my own!
I definitely loved it and would recommend it to anyone who seeks a new start. Attending Le Wagon is the best decision I've taken in my life.

Before Le Wagon Bootcamp, I used to have a good position in a multinational company. But for several reasons, I wanted a carreer change. One day, I watched a video on the internet about LeWagon Bootcamp. Since then, I am completely found of web developing, and I won’t stop. When I joined the bootcamp, I realized that Lewagon is more than a bootcamp, it is a real human adventure where we meet incredible people. Everybody is passionate and ambitious. The community of developers is growing every day! We share good practices, job offers, and so on. Today, I feel comfortable with launching my own project. In fact, I’ve learned the best practices to work on a tech product. That’s why I definitely recommend LeWagon!

Well, passed those 9 weeks and a couple of months after my experience on LeWagon's bootcamp, I can definitely endorse their slogan "Change your life: learn to code". At least for me, it really changed my life.

As a background, I'm a business graduated, who spent many years working on the industry as a marketing executive. From traditional marketing I moved to digital marketing and that's pretty much when I decided to quit the industry and start a career as an entrepreneur on the tech market.

By that time, I honestly wasn't aware how much the lack of technical skills would cost me. Time showed me that an idea, a vision, business knowledge, money and contacts might not be enough to build a great tech company. Yes, you can find technical partners, you can hire people, but how can you...

Three months ago, there was Jules: a front-end web developer working remotely on CMS such as Wordpress, Prestashop..
Now, there is Jules from Le Wagon : a junior fullstack developer, who knows and understands what is under the hood :wink:
The truth is: I am that (new) guy.

I started with a few basic skills (html, css..), my clients were pretty satisfied but I was not.
My lack of knowledge was frustrating for me: what if a client wanted a website “from scratch”, how could I do if it required more skills than expected, especially if it involved the “back-end” ? (the hidden part of a website).

To answer these questions, I decided I would find a way to improve my skills.
I talked about Le Wagon to some friends, and they were dithyrambic: just do it... if you can.

During the boo...

I attended Batch #64 in São Paulo.

The "change your life, learn to code" headline might sound like an overstatement, but it's not. Le Wagon is allowing me to change my life and to get closer to my goals.

Programming was never a strange thing to me. I attended Engineering School, where I learned some C and Assembly. Working on financial markets for the last 11 years got me some VBA skills.

But web programming was way ahead of my understanding.

Before Le Wagon I tried to read some books, to follow some tutorials, to watch some videos. The information was so diffused that it took months to get me from zero to almost nothing. Alone and not having too much time on my hands, it was very hard to know what to read and where to focus.

When I learned about Le Wagon, I felt that it ...

I was originally a social scientist without affinity for IT when due to my work as a Project Manager I started to collaborate closely with programmers and IT professionals. That’s when I made up my mind to learn to code to be able to better communicate with my team members. After some research, I decided to join the Le Wagon Bootcamp in São Paulo (Batch 64).

My expectations were very high and they even got exceeded! I did not imagine that I will learn in such a short time to build a working web application from scratch. For the final two-week-project we have built a doctors review page with a group of four programming newbies. It was an amazing experience and I recommend the Le Wagon bootcamp to everyone that is motivated to learn to code.

I came across Le Wagon in a somewhat random, unintentional way. I once had a long layover and I joined a digital entrepreneurship meet up organised by Le Wagon. When I met the team and the batch students, I immediately fell in love with their vibe. Since that moment on, the idea of signing up for Le Wagon was seeded in my mind.

I am a psychologist by training, and I have mostly worked in human resources as a consultant. Nevertheless, I have always been a technology enthusiast. I wanted to steer my career towards the tech field, either as an entrepreneur or as a consultant. In order to be effective when working with developers, I thought doing a coding bootcamp would give me the right foundation. I decided to join Le Wagon in Barcelona, and it was the perfect match for me - While the ...

Over the past year, I have been trying to learn how to code using online resources. Unfortunately, I was overwhelmed by the amount of topics that I needed to cover as well as the extensive documentation that was necessary for each subject. When I found out that it is really time consuming to learn on my own, I decided to look for other ways. I began searching for coding bootcamps nearby, I was impressed by the amount of skills they promised but I was skeptical as well. The first website I came across was Switchup which ranked different bootcamps by order. Le Wagon was ranked first and it had positive reviews all around. It caught my attention and I decided to find out more. I went on their website and I started watching the previous demo days, watching these videos is what made Le Wagon...

Le Wagon batch#48 Paris

Le Wagon is clearly the best training experience I had in my life. The pedagogy is really perfect, pushing you into learning by doing and manipulating all the core concepts of programming by blocks that you later assemble to be able to create a project from A to Z. At the end of Le Wagon, you are autonomous to strengthen your knowledge in programming and learn new languages.

More than just acquiring pure technical knowledge, you also learn the best practices to work on a product-oriented web project with other people. The community is awesome and supportive, during and after the end of the bootcamp. You are part of a family and can find other alumni glad to help you out all around the world.

My name is Mathieu, I was part of batch#70 for 9 weeks which took place in Paris from April to June 2017.

Before joining Le Wagon, I was already a student in computer sciences but I was looking for a faster way to get expertise and get a job .
A friend of mine, who had done the program, told me about Le Wagon and explained that he was designing a product and wanted to rise his start up shortly.
He told me his experience was awesome and that it would be for me a great opportunity that I should not miss.
During my interview, I felt confident and I felt like I was about to immerse myself into this place for 9 full weeks.

On the very first day, four of us got there one hour in advance, impatient and excited to start this new adventure. Those four people became subsequently my frie...

After 8 years as a Marketing Manager, the desire of launching my own project was so big that I finally decided to leave my job to try it.
One of my most important wishes was to stop wasting my time in too many meetings, and to find meaning by concretely building something on my own.
Because my project is an app, I needed to learn a lot about code. I think I’ve always had a quite good culture about web, but as a marketer who used to work with agencies. Technically, I was a beginner who could not understand a word while looking at a code page!
A friend of mine told me about Le Wagon, which seemed to be the right solution for me, and that’s the way I finally integrated the batch70 from April to June 2017.
With hindsight, this program was a useful transition between my old job and my n...

Because of Le Wagon, I am a confident coder. Leaving Barcelona and Le Wagon was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do. If you are on the fence about doing this course, I can only say that you will not regret it one bit. You will learn coding and how to work with a variety of different people, which are skills you can use for years to come.

I was sitting in my computer science class one day when my teacher started talking about studying abroad. Immediately I texted my dad about the two-week trip my teacher discussed during class. He shot that idea down saying it looked more like a vacation than real education and told me he would, however, be open to a coding boot camp. I didn’t even know coding boot camps existed so I Googled “best coding boot camps” and Le Wagon popped up near the t...

I love my two months at Le Wagon Paris learning how to code from scratch. There are two main reasons for that:

- The training is great, the teacher are operational and provide pragmatic advice. So it is super effective to learn in only 9 weeks there.

- It is a lot about people there, the human experience is unique.

To discover more, I encourage you to have a look at the article I wrote on the subject (it is just a 3 min read).
https://medium.com/@AMikl_/le-wagon-bootcamp-what-for-1d67e2cca5eb

I could definitely say that the LeWagon bootcamp was an extremely rewarding experience and also quite unique when talking about the teaching method (and platform) itself. By the end of 2016, I finished my professional journey at the Rio2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, where I worked for the Supply Chain planning. So far, I had been in touch with an 'upper layer' of programming, mostly improving spreadsheets and making them more automatic. Given my interest about it, and realizing how programming could be useful in so many other fields and approaches, I decided to look for a way to deepen my programming knowledge. That was when I found out about LeWagon, from a friend's recommendation which assured me that after the 9 week bootcamp, I would be able to devel...

As a marketing project manager at one of the leading classified ads company in France, I decided to go to Le Wagon bootcamp to be more operational, to have a transverse vision and to code the projects I specified. The training, very intense, highly rewarding both from a human and intellectual point of view give me the necessary set of skills to carry out all possible web projects imaginable. The pedagogy and the tools provided are of a very high quality, thanks to LeWagon, I code every day at work and I love it!
Last but not least, LeWagon community is very large and powerful, which allows us to have mutual support and to discover many opportunities

After finishing my law degree and gaining some insight in the nowadays still inefficient practice in various law areas I began having second thoughts - the possibility of lawyers built as artificial intelligence bots will take over is relatively high. Thus I signed up for Le Wagon to stay on top of things.
Le Wagon has not only given me a broad insight on the most relevant skill of the 21st century - coding, but foremost the mindset to be able to create my own products.
The 9 weeks have flown by and I’m still amazed by the amount I’ve learnt in such a short time.

I am passionate to learn and create, and studied business in University. I travelled around the world to discover the spectrum of culture and ways of life. In all my travels and past projects I always found a ‘golden door’ that gave me access to a new world of knowledge, people and experiences: Languages.

After my travels I settled in Amsterdam with two primary drivers in mind: technology and sustainability. I had enrolled in classes online (MOOC) related to these two subjects as well as Blockchain. By diving into Blockchain I realised how powerful technology can be used for positive and sustainable change in business and the broader world. I became aware of how coding is the universal language of our digital world: so I decided I must learn.

I started looking for a coding sc...

Before entering Le Wagon, I worked as a marketing manager for an e-commerce website for 3 years. It was a first approach of the web world to me, but I wanted to go further and learn how to code.

Le Wagon allowed me to learn how to make a website without having to re-enter the studying system for several years. I learned the basis of HTML, CSS, jQuery, SQL, Ruby, Ruby and Rails, etc. But the bootcamp is not just about learning several languages one after another, it's all about understanding the structure of a modern website and choosing the good language to do the right thing. Le Wagon also gives us the tips to learn by ourselves other programming languages and the best practices to build up a web application.

It really loved that experience and it gave me the will to be a good ...

To start with, the bootcamp was definitely worth it. If you would have asked me at the start what I believe I would be able to do at the end, I would by far not have believed I would have learnt that much.

Before starting the course, I studied Mechanical Engineering, therefore I was already comfortable with the logic based thinking and a bit of programming. Still, it is a different world of programming when one is at university. At Le Wagon, I thought the teaching was very product oriented. It gives the lectures and exercises a purpose and a motivation to learn and code for multiple hours 5 days a week for 9 weeks straight. Thinking back, I cannot believe having spent that much time at a computer day in day out and I still enjoyed it.

Le Wagon in Lisbon also gives you a whole ...

I decided to learn ruby on rails, HTML and CSS, SQL etc because for a long time I had this in my bucket list of dreams. Le Wagon Lisbon was exactly what I have expected to gain out of VERY INTENSIVE 9 weeks of learn coding from scratch. The professors and assistants were incredible and really took me to the next level. Lisbon is THE city to be if you want to be surrounded by likeminded folks who want to challenge their skills, get involved in coding communities and be surrounded by start ups from all over the world who are coming to Lisbon because of the weather, food, beach and because the entire city is turning into a tech meltingpot. Highly recommend this course in Lisbon!

Fantastic course, fast-paced and intense but thorough, led by a dedicated team keen on seeing their students learn as much as they can. The course takes you through all steps necessary to emerge as a full stack junior dev but there's also considerable effort directed towards teaching you how to think and work on a product as an entrepreneur, not just to execute under guidance. A strong recommend for those looking to get challenged and learn.