Practicum Bootcamp

Duration of session was very less but to learn basic skills session was good. Trainer was quite good but i think we need more advance sessions to learn power BI which will help to improve our skills and enhance job opportunity .please arrange some more... Read More advance sessions and do share the link

I was able to do the intro course and I really learned a lot! It was fun to do and I was able to follow along with the tutorials well. It was nice to learn a new skill. I wish I would have had time to do the full course. I think I would have really liked... Read More it!

I am thoroughly enjoying my time at Practicum thus far. The content is quite engaging, and the community support is extremely warm and encouraging. You can be confident that even if you have no prior experience with web development, you will be taught... Read More from the ground up and will receive unwavering support without falling behind. To begin with, the price is very reasonable when compared to other Bootcamps, and you can pay in installments. They also have the premise that if you do not get hired within six months of graduating, your investment will be returned. This tells me where their focus is. The program is quite extensive. It covers a wide range of topics, including how to manage your time and resources, developer roles and functions, and an in-depth look at your career path as a developer. Practicum has their own custom platform for reading each lesson and practicing code. It’s quite engaging and well structured. It’s divided into sections called sprints. Each sprint includes a project that puts your newly acquired knowledge to the test. They are intriguingly difficult, but you are never alone; your tutor is always available to help you when you need it. Practicum has an online student guide that contains insightful information as well as literally everything you need to know about their program. Study planning, sprint schedules, recordings of live coding webinars and career conferences, extracurriculars such as Apiary, Code Jams, Senior Student Opportunities; student perks, and more. Deadlines are given for completing each section, and the time allotted is reasonable. When your code is reviewed and passed, you will feel a sense of accomplishment. I must say that the code reviewers are first-rate, and they ensure that your code meets industry standards. I went into the course thinking I knew enough about CSS and HTML and couldn't wait to get started on the JavaScript portion of the course, but I couldn't have been more wrong. To put it another way, the methodologies taught clarified and reinforced everything I thought I knew. When it comes to the community, let's be honest: people will be busy at times. However, the practicum community managers have always responded quickly, and the web tutors are always eager to assist. It makes no difference whether they are assigned to your cohort or not. I messaged about 5 Tutors privately at one point, and they all responded within 48 hours. On the same day, one of them had a conference call with me. It is always difficult to learn new material. The most important takeaway from this bootcamp is that you can always ask for help if you get stuck. You may be in a cohort where the students are not as engaging, but the staff always ensures that the conversations continue. Every week, they have something called coworking hours on the Slack channel. Every day, a Web Tutor is assigned to conduct a live conference call to answer any questions. I mean anything, regardless of the sprint or project you're working on. There is also something called Code Jam, which happens a few times a year. You get to work with students from all over the world to build a project. You will also have the opportunity to work on real-world projects with an established tech company before graduating. It is incorporated into the curriculum, but it is entirely optional. The program is rather lengthy, but it is worthwhile once completed. Those who focus on the negatives are overreaching. Having said that, it's only been four months and I've met every deadline, I'm not burnt out, and I've never been left hanging. I'm learning and having a great time.

Frustrating to say the least. All is well at the start of the course, tutor support is high, moral on the forums are high, and you are told at how successful you are going to be after this course. Once they have your money after a few months, the plane... Read More crashes into the mountain. I signed up believing their website that I would have 10 unique projects to add to my portfolio. Sounds great right? What they really mean is you will re-do a project over and over again and by the end you will have ONE project for your portfolio. I am at the end of the course and I am still working 'Web project 4' which is just a continuation of everything. This was an outright lie. I took screen shots showing their claim of 10 projects. After a month or two ( I also mentioned this in a complaint) the website was changed to say 6 projects. Thanks for that Practicum. Now im sure it says something vague. Next grievance is the lack of support for international students. This is a Russian company after all, but good luck getting an answer to your question outside of a few hours in the afternoon Eastern Time. All of the tutors have a full time job and usually do their tutoring work at the end of the day. This means that unless you live in the US, a tutor will NEVER be available when you want to work. Another lie from Practicum. The forums/ slack channel after a few months is completely dead. I wouldn't be surprised if I was the only person in my group. It really seems that everyone dropped out of the course. The platform is alright to work on, however, you will reach extremely vague questions and obviously no one is around to help you. So have fun with that. One tip is to beg the IT support people (who are supposed to just help with syntax errors) and sometimes you will get someone who is willing to help you. Very often though, they will say "ask your tutor!" -- I would if I had one! The React and Express sprints are just cheap rip-offs of the official website's documentation with some not very funny jokes spliced in. I would recommend learning it directly from them. React even offers a free course...! or you could just pay Practicum for their version of the same thing. My final grievance is that they vastly undersold how much you will be working on the course. "20 hours per week," they say... it will be more like 30 to 40. You will never finish a sprint on time, you will constantly feel like a failure, and you will end up hating it. My advice to you would be to save your money, do some free courses until you find a programing language you enjoy, get certified in it, and MOVE ON. I did this course when they did a trial offer of 2000 euros. Now it's 5000... not sure why. IMO the quality went down as soon as they got your money. TLDR -- Practicum kinda sucks I AM KEEPING MY REVIEW ANONYMOUS SO THEY DON'T BOOT ME FROM THE COURSE FOR EXPOSING HOW BAD IT IS pros: You will find new reasons to hate yourself and feel like a failure. Some of the tutors are helpful -- about 50% of them Cons: Lying about the number of projects you will have for your portfolio. I HAVE SCREENSHOTS PRACTICUM. You guys are full of it! inconsistent support times -- especially for outside the US. (good luck if you lived in Russia, where the course is supposedly from) Immovable Russian attitude towards change.

This bootcamp has one of the best supporting teams I have ever seen, the tutors care to help you, you are not just a number, they treat you like a colleague and they try to show the best they can, the staff (community managers, practicum employees, former... Read More students) are always there to help you out and they try to give you the best experience possible.

This is a great program of those unfamiliar with the field. If you are new to the field, like myself, you might find yourself spending more time on each 2 week sprint that what they say, but it is time well spent. The curriculum is great. There is solid... Read More organization, incremental learning, and you will produce tangible projects that display your learning. The slack forum allows conversations between students and the tutors. Tutors will respond within 24 hours as a rule. Sometimes you will run into technical cliches where the right solution is offered, but the automated grader will not accept it, but that is quickly resolved by reaching out to the tutors who will report it to the technical side. While I am just starting with the career accelerator portion of the program (optional), I believe that Practicum will help anyone determined to find a good job by helping with resume prep, interview skills, and soft skills. Indeed, during the 9 months the program integrates soft skills with the technical skills so one should feel well prepared for finding an entry level job at graduation. Initially, the program will guide you every step of the way through the learning materials. As things progress, your tutors will emphasize that you need to start investigating the documentation to find the answers. I believe this mirrors the real world, where your employers will expect you to research things before you ask for help. Overall, a great program that has given me skills and knowledge. I am very grateful for the opportunity to learn from practicum and feel pretty optimistic that I have the skills to contribute to the team of my future employer.

I actually looked up Practicum at SwitchUp prior to joining. The reviews were great but I still had doubt as I don't have STEM background, so I'm not sure how it would be like searching for jobs. Since the first time joining, we are being taken care of... Read More quite well by a team of tutors and community managers at Yandex. It doesn't matter how hard a subject is, I will always find help. The real life projects are also a great foundation to have upon graduation, I can already show off what I accomplished on Github. The only difficult thing for me was the timezone, I'm in Asia (GMT+8) while most of the tutors, workshops and everything is in US timezone, so I miss most workshops or join in by sacrificing some sleep. I hope in the future as the course grows, they can provide more hours options to students on the other parts of the world.

I graduated from Practicum’s Software Engineering course at the end of October 2021. I entered Practicum Career Acceleration course (included in tuition) at the end of December 2021. By March of 2022 I had landed my dream job as a Full Stack Engineer.... Read More Practicum’s curriculum teaches students not only how to code, but also how to work in the industry. The base curriculum covers software engineering foundations before diving deep in the most popular frameworks in use today. The curriculum is taught in “sprints”, meaning that chapters are learned in two-week sessions that begin with theory and practice on Practicum’s custom learning platform, and end with real life projects that students can include in their portfolios. Throughout each sprint, students have a chance to learn from a tutor dedicated to their cohort, as well as other students further along in the course, some dedicated specifically to their cohort as well. Practicum’s code review process provides students with feedback in a way that models industry practices as well. This feedback is invaluable in deepening understanding of topics learned throguhout each sprint. Practicum’s Apiary program, a free and optional extra curricular, gives students a chance to work on small teams to build real projects for real companies. I participated in three of these projects and cannot emphasize enough how valuable they were for me. Learning to collaborate with others, learning to adopt newtechnologiess to solve unique problems, and learning what it feels like to build *real* projects gave me a massive leg up in the interview process. After graduation, the Career Acceleration program helped me take the final steps and land a job. Early on in the course I was provided with great guidance as to how to create a rock solid online presence. A dedicated career coach met with me weekly to discuss successes, shortcomings, and goals for the upcoming week. A few mock interviews, both personal and technical, set me up to crush reali interviews when the time came. Throughout the whole course, from day one even up until now, Practicum’s growing Slack community has been wonderful. Students from all courses come together to offer guidance, advice, motivation, and celebration. I’m still in touch with many people I studied with, including tutors. I’m thrilled with the education I received at Practicum. I’m so glad I found such a wonderful community. The education is solid and always improving, the community is engaging, and the team was dedicated to helping me land my dream job. Pros - Learn relevant skills - Engaging community - Responsive tutors - Dedicated career coach - Modeled after industry standards - Opportunity to build real world projects - Affordable Cons - Occasional bugs on platform - Not as established, meaning fewer graduating classes

After looking at numerous coding bootcamp options, I came across Practicum, which cost only a fraction of the price as other bootcamps. You do not sacrifice quality by paying less here. Practicum has taught me so much already and my journey is still only... Read More in its infancy with them. I highly recommend anyone looking to enroll in a coding bootcamp to reach out to Practicum and experience their free intro courses for either the Software Engineering, Data Analyst, or Data Science course. They are a great option!

I was looking for a course that offered practical experience of programming without too much fluff. This fits the bill perfectly as a no-nonsense course that touches upon theory and drops you in the deep end to practice and learn. The course is very hands-on... Read More and there are multiple projects and case studies to enable you to learn by doing. If you're looking for a course that offers a holistic view of data science from the ground up, this is probably not for you. The course focuses more on the programming aspect - specifically Python. That's not to say it doesn't cover soft skills and theory however, only not in as much detail as another course such as Springboard.