| | Kalea Wolff | I attended the Ruby On Rails Back-End Engineering course. From day one, we were coding. We started off with the fundamentals of Ruby and over the next five weeks, we learned more about Rails and its individual pieces until we finally started working in the Rails environment. By doing this we had a much better appreciation of everything Rails was doing for us under the hood.
In the final 6 weeks of the program, we worked on learning front end development in brief, and created full stack Rails apps as well as back-end APIs. In Week 8 we worked in teams of 4 (2 front-end/2 back-end) to rapidly develop a project for a simulated client. And finally in weeks 9-12 we paired up again with front-end students to create our final projects for Demo Day.
After week 12 there was a week of career support. This was a primer to get us ready for our coming applications. I honestly wish this had happened earlier and throughout the program. I waited until after graduation to start applying and am still searching for a position as of this writing. A little over half of my cohort already have positions.
Pros:
Top tier staff
Top tier education
Simulates an Agile work environment
Great community of alums
Cons:
Can be extremely expensive
Requires a lot of dedication and some sacrifice
Career support is available, but feels like it needs to be more fleshed out |
