The Firehose Project

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...

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...

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...