The Firehose Project

First of all this program have the best intro to programming. Building your portfolio through all the lessons you get. Every lesson are very good explained and every line put in the code is explained. What gave me the chance to not learn like an robot was that at everything new i learned were questions about it at every lesson. Then what's exciting is that at every lesson you have an exercise to do. This is great, because whenever i get to make that exercise alone, without help, it feels good and motivating to continue doing so. Beside exercises there are challenges too. At every challenge you get an objective and you need to make it work. When you finish the code and think that is good, you can send to one of their engineer team to evaluate it and give an review.

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The Firehose Project is leading the pack of coding Boot Camps!

The platform is entirely online, allowing individuals in the midst of a career change to balance their current employment and personal obligation with professional growth. Despite being entirely online, I feel deeply connected to my fellow students and wider Firehose community. From the very beginning, Firehose has been extremely responsive in a timely manner allowing me to keep pace with my studies and build my confidence as I develop new skills.

However, the absolute best aspect of Firehose is the 1:1 experience with my mentor. Firehose has optimized the algorithm for pairing students with the perfect mentor. The individual attention and support of my mentor creates a curriculum that is perfectly tailored to my way o...

Good teaching

In the firehose project you are really going to learn! The team is extremely attentive and helpful in order to make your experience a great one! I feel like I progressed a lot from day 01 and I am still constinuasly advancing. The program goes in-depth in the topics approached. Overall the learning experience is great, intense and worths the investment.

I have completed seven weeks of the Accelerated Full Stack Web Development, and I believe joining the Firehose project was one of the best decisions I have ever made. The program is very well designed. We begin learning web development basics and soon transition to rapid development with Ruby on Rails. I have enjoyed learning Ruby on Rails since the language itself allows you to grasp more experience than any other language in a given period. The flexibility of Rails combined with the lessons allowed me to create web apps in the first week. The program also includes computer science fundamentals such as data structures. This truly separates the Firehose project from other boot camps and any other MOOC. I can't stress enough the importance of learning how to think like a software enginee...

I'm just over a month into the Firehose Project and I'm loving it! Here's why:

(1) Real-life Projects from Day One: from the get, we're building useful applications and learning frameworks as we go along. It seems counter-intuitive, but by the time you see HOW code works, you're better able to understand WHY it works.
(2) Regular Mentoring from Experts: this is my favorite aspect of the bootcamp. You have your own personal cheerleader with whom you can be as confused as you wish (lol) and they help you out of it, explain stuff and point you to more learning resources. I don't have to chase the proverbial rabbit down every StackExchange hole; I learn what I can and leave the really obtuse stuff for my mentoring sessions.
(3) Tree-like Layout of Course Objectives: the course is not e...

Having desired to make a move to switch up my career path to web development I had been researching educational options online. There are plenty of self-taught methods available from books to videos, but I needed something with a structure and a timeline (two paces to choose from) at a price point that seemed worth while - Firehose Project is that and more. Well laid out lessons, challenges, projects, links to guides, forums, and especially the regularly scheduled live mentor sessions combine to make learning the Ruby stack immersive and fun. From consultation, learning the fundamentals, general admin support (if even needed), project forums and the slack community there is a ton of great support to help guide your way. I highly recommend Firehose Project to anyone interested in learnin...

Honestly, I don't see any cons in this program. On the contrary, I found only pros in it. It is self-explanatory and easy to deal with, not to mention the useful information it contains.

For those looking for a remote option, Firehose is perfect. The founders are very involved, directly answering questions and guiding you along figuring out how to think about tough problems involving complex data structures. They continually add more material and improve the overall boot camp. Had a top notch mentor to go along with video office hours in which Ken and Marco go through all the questions that current students have.

I started The Firehose Project in Feb. 2017 with the intention to change careers and develop my existing programming skills to a professional level. Before I joined the programm, I did a lot of research on what would be the best coding bootcamp for me, and I was straight away overwhelmed with the options that I had. So after spending a good 2 weeks going through reviews, blog posts and even starting some of the free coding camps out there, I decided to go all in. I quite my job as an Engineer and started the Firehose Project.

It soon turned out to be one of the best decisions I've made in my professional career so far.

The reason for choosing the Firehose Project were mostly related to their preperation course and a personal interview before the actual course started. I could ask...

This was an excellent course. The content of the course was made easy to understand but it covered a lot of ground. The curriculum was focused on practicality -- getting projects up and running so you could see your results how well you actually learned things. Plus, the content was very up-to-date. I received a job offer mid-course and the course subject matter was as current, if not more so, than where I started working. In addition, the mentors were great and very responsive to any questions no matter how seemingly simple. Can't recommend it enough.

Beginning the journey

I was a stay at home mom with a love of learning. I had my degree in applied math but never pursued a career due to family obligations. However, after choosing to homeschool my kids, I decided to start learning right alongside them. I wanted to get into something that would continually challenge me and then stumbled into coding. I did some independent learning using online tutorials, Codecademy, and The Odin Project. After working through those and still desiring a deeper understanding and a little more guidance, I signed up for a beginners course in web development. I came out of that with being able to implement the basics and even more of a curiosity for the workings of it all. So I began searching for a more in depth training option. I read through reviews o...

3 Things Every (good) Developer Needs to Know

I started my first job as a developer right after the firehose bootcamp and was
lucky to observe a team of really experienced professionals at the new company.
Thinking about what makes a developer a good one I came to the conclusion that
firehose taught me just about everything a good developer needs to know.

Divide and conquer
The whole learning experience of firehose is based on projects with increasing
complexity. Each and every step in the development process is broken down so one
can easily follow through and understand the required steps. The knowledge gets acquired gradually and with the experience one’s confidence grows as well.

My daily tasks as a developer require this exact skill. Breaking down the problem into t...

The year is 2016, and navigating between the plethora of coding bootcamps can feel as nerve-racking as settling on a programming language. Some prestigious camps promise a virtually guaranteed job and an alluring 6 figure salary upon graduation, but these programs often cost the tuition of a full year of a state college and require complete devotion and relocation for a period of 3-5 months. For those that can not afford this luxury, the online bootcamp serves as a comparable experience as an intensive period focused on learning and growing your programming skills. After much research and investigation, I settled upon the fantastic The Firehose Project online bootcamp, and shortly upon graduating I secured a job in a field that not only challenges me but brings excitement to work.

Th...

NOTE: The curriculum has been updated from 15 weeks to a 6 month format.

For those who are financially or logistically unable to attend a full-time in-classroom or virtual classroom program but still want to get as close to the level of rigor and quality of those programs, this is a great alternative.

Who will have a 5 star experience with this program?
- People who are certain they want to become a professional web developers or launch a web-based entrepreneurial project.
- People who have the courage to ask questions, even when it makes them feel like they might "look stupid" or make someone uncomfortable.
- People who are self-motivated. You are not in a classroom, so there is no one who can see you 8-14 hours per day and tell you to pick it up or to notice that you are frus...

I am a graduate of theFireHoseProject. This was by far one of the best investments I've ever made in myself.

First, here's all little background on myself.
I was a manager at a gym. I knew NOTHING about website stuff. I started making small edits to our gyms website because it was so outdated. I quickly started reading everything I could about HTML because I realized that I could potentially make our website look awesome. After making our gym's CrossFit website from scratch, I signed up for some community college classes because I wanted to learn more.

That was the extent of my coding knowledge when I looked at theFireHoseProject.

1. Why I'm glad I signed up
The main reason why I signed up with theFireHoseProject was because they had an "entrepreneur" track focused on buil...

It was hour number 8 of looking at the same computer screen and scrolling through the text to see if I had missed an important detail. I had not. I was stuck. I had admitted I was stuck hours before then began redrawing the same numbers and diagrams on the white board I had erased three times before. Frustrated was an understatement. I then looked at my dog who was hungrily eyeing the almonds on my desk and began to explain to him (for the fifth time) what I was trying to accomplish. He was rewarded for his patience but his kind ear did nothing to help my predicament.

The above anecdote underscores (to me at least) the challenge and purpose of learning a new skill. I would eventually solve the algorithm and move onto a new problem but I always remember the struggle of being stuck, ...

Sometimes you need to make one step to change your hole life.

When I started the Firehose project bootcamp I didn’t know how it will all end after 12 weeks of coding.

There were lots of difficulties such as huge difference in timezone, luck of coding knowledge and practice at the beginning, and general it was scary to try something new. But anyway I decided to try it, and it was super interesting during all 12 weeks.

And now after over 1 year of graduation from the Firehose Project and 8 month working as PHP developer I’m really thankful to Marco, Ken, Frederick - my personal mentor, Travis - our team mentor and to all my teammates: Jonathan, Takehiro, Adam and Ronny.

This 12 weeks in the Firehose Project gave me more coding and life experience than 4 years in university. By...

I joined the Firehose Project in December 2015 and recently graduated. The program itself is fantastic and has been a crucial part of my own transition into software engineering. I recently was able to get an offer for a full-time coding job and I owe that almost entirely to the Firehose program.

There are a lot of good bootcamp programs out there but what sets Firehose apart is the personal attention you get from the two founders - Ken and Marco. I lost count of the number of time I sent Ken an email/posted in the forums and got a reply directly within an hour. Seriously...if it was between 9-5 Mon-Fri...I would post a question or send an email and receive a reply within an hour almost every time. This happened consistently for the entire program. I got an unbelievable amount of per...

It’s been almost a year since I enrolled and started down the path to change my career with the Firehose Project. Back in early 2015, I knew I wanted to transition my career into the tech industry, but I didn’t know exactly how. I had just completed my CompTIA A+ certification, a process that made me realize I would prefer being a developer to being an IT professional. The only problem: developers need to have a degree in Computer Science, right? I couldn’t afford to go back to University for another 4 year degree in either time or money. Shortly after desparing that I could never become a developer, something amazing happened: I was introduced to programming bootcamps.

I attended an info session for Bloc in April 2015 that really pumped me up. I could become a developer without havi...