It’s been a bit over a year at this point since I attended Turing, but I still regularly keep in touch with many of the people I spent those dark months with. Some suggested I just leave well enough alone and others pointed out that as a cult works - with one negative review, a dozen or so fabricated ones will arise letting the world know just how delicious the Kool-Aid is. Still others may suggest that I’m “indefatigable” - a word used by a woman I’ve never met in my life when Jeff lit the fire in their internal Slack channel to smear my name and alter the story of how I left. I thought it funny as I can’t imagine she’s had ten thousand dollars stolen from her in her lifetime, but I could be wrong. If it were so, is indefatigable the right word? Maybe bitter… I’ll give you bitter, but ...

Turing is HARD. I thought I knew what hard was when I started this program and I couldn't have been more wrong. Turing is one of, if not THE, hardest things you'll do in your life.

That said, Turing is also the best decision I've ever made. I've spent my entire career around technical teams, always longing for more and feeling like I hadn't answered the question of what I wanted to be when I grew up. I found coding on my own and tried (rather unsuccessfully) to learn on my own. I waffled for a while on the choice to attend Turing, mostly because I was scared of giving up a nice income to do something totally different. I'm generally a risk-averse individual, so this was a huge leap of faith for me.

Like other reviews have said, this is a program for self-starters. It's not a wrap...

Module 1, Sunday, beginning of week 5... One may judge that a review like this should not be written this early into the Turing program, but it's happening. 22+ years of experience in public education may give readers more initial respect for one 47 year old woman's opinion. This experience totals 15 years from CCSD (Dell H Robison MS, Las Vegas) and another 7+ in DPS(Denver): all inner city/at risk, all middle school (primarily 8th grade), teacher (math, art, title 1, yearbook, writing), learning strategist(custom created position supporting all subjects in the classroom+ data analyst). Education awards, accolades, professional organizations, committees, workshops, peer tutoring programs, state school improvement teams etc... are available upon request. Masters of Education in Curric...

I wasn't even going to write a review here but somebody using my name wrote a really negative one so I feel the need to set the record straight.

First of all, I was their for 9 months, not 7. I got sick and had to miss a module. The course goes in four 6 week modules with a week break in between each.

Ironically, what the fake me said about being able to do the same thing on my own in half the time of self study is the exact opposite of how I actually feel. I went to Turing specifically because I was getting nowhere with self study. It was at Turing that I received the structure and support to really take my abilities as a web developer to the next level.

Even though this shouldn't matter, since the fake me brought up Jeff supposedly having a huge ego or being a problem I w...

A year ago, I recognized that I was unhappy with my career and decided to make a change into Software Development. After researching several programs, I ultimately decided on Turing for a few reasons:

1. Their emphasis on the importance of pedagogy
2. A (relatively) longer program sounded appealing
3. The reputation of Jeff Casimir within the industry

Overall, I am beyond satisfied with my decision. At the risk of sounding fanatical, it's probably the best choice i've ever made.

As a student, you are surrounded by a wonderfully weird and diverse group of intelligent, driven, and empathetic individuals, all working toward a similar goal. Most of the instructors come from an education background, and do a remarkable job of patiently walking you through very complicated subject...

Cons => It eats your entire life and soul for 7 months (seriously I'm pale and have only been on like 3 dates in the past 6 months).

Pros => Its exceptionally challenging. LONG HOURS. Don't come here and expect to coast (seriously... you've been warned).

I have built (from scratch):

A Binary Search Tree (an almost logarithmic searching algorithm).
An ORM (Object Relational Mapper) similar to ActiveRecord.
A webserver to observe web traffic (kind of like google analytics).
A complete e-commerce platform => http://fasterfood.herokuapp.com
A job platform with multi-tenancy and user auth => http://githired.herokuapp.com
A twitter clone (can do all of the base functionality of twitter).

Many, many more assorted tutorials and small projects.

This is a 5-star program.

I graduate in three weeks, was a university student before this and have a non technical background.

Turing is by far one of the toughest and most rewarding things I have ever done. Jeff Casimir and the Turing staff have created a great program where - if you are motivated and work hard - you can become a software engineer in seven months. The instructors at Turing won't teach you how to code, rather they will teach how to learn and how to solve problems by yourself. We learn Ruby and JavaScript, but alumni are offered jobs writing Go/Python/Java/* because they are confident Turing students know how to get up to speed with new languages and concepts quickly. Working as a software engineer requires constant learning and if seven months of code-alongs would be a waste of everyone's ti...