App Academy during Covid has been a giant disappointment. The TA's are lazy and uninformed -- the instructors mostly have no prior teaching experience and many are past graduates who were unable to land a "real" coding job after going through App Academy themselves. The "structure" of the course (If you can even call it that) is a highly technical lecture for 3-4 hours and then free time to work on problems while asking sullen and underinformed TAs for help. For this, App Academy demands $30k and will charge you about $160/day. This works out to almost $40/hour to have an unmotivated "instructor" who can't get a job as a developer push information at you for 3-4 hours a day. This is what they call "teaching" -- a criminal use of the word. If you can't keep up with the too-fast pace, unhelpful TAs, and unmotivated instructors who have no idea how to teach, you'll be kicked out of the course for a month to be "deferred" to the next cohort. No help or extra instruction whatsoever is given. You are just dropped, floundering, and App Academy washes their hands of you until you repeat with a group of fresh-faced fools with big dreams of high salaries. If you defer 3 times, App Academy kicks you out for their own lack of instruction and you are immediately forced to pay thousands of dollars for the sub-par "learning" you never managed to do. App Academy will happily blame you, the student, and maintain the party line that it is YOUR fault they can't teach while going after you for money. This course is worth AT MOST $5k. $30k is highway robbery. Please do not waste your time and money on this course, the same material is available elsewhere online for free. | 