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Anonymous

I am currently attending App Academy. I started at the beginning of May. App Academy is split into three week modules. The first module we went through was great. Full of examples and problems, discussions on where we would see the JavaScript concepts in real life, video tutorials to supplement the lectures. I felt like I was learning loads every day. It was tough, but totally fair. I would have highly recommended the program. Then came Mod 2. Without telling us they completely changed the curriculum from what we signed up for. We now get very few examples of the concepts, and very little lecture time. When we asked if we could get more example problems we were told, I kid you not, that they are too difficult to come up with and that we should write them. One of our cohort mates came up with a set of problems that night for us. The curriculum designer has been rude and dismissive of our concerns. We have asked for an updated syllabus and have been told they don't know what they are going to put after this module. We have asked to talk to a representative from App Academy and haven't gotten it. We asked for access to the old curriculum so that we could at least see what they were doing before and were told explicitly that we could not see the old curriculum. They keep telling us that they want us to struggle and figure it out. There are some possibly cool projects in Module 2, but we can't enjoy them because we aren't being given the tools to understand them in the first place. I did not pay this kind of money to struggle to find materials for myself outside of class. I paid this kind of money to streamline the material so I could struggle to become a great software developer! Avoid App Academy until further notice. I will try to update this, if possible, if anything changes. I'll give them two stars because of how good Module 1 was.