| | Dan Hoffman | This review is for the Full-Stack, full-time course. There is a lot to learn in application and web development and this course will teach you most of it while creating real applications that you can showcase and expand on. It's a comprehensive course and if you use your time wisely you will be a competent programmer by the end of it with plenty of work to show. Jeff Ammons, the chief instructor, is an ocean of knowledge and is ready to teach and answer any questions you can throw at him. He is also very flexible with students.
PROS:
It's a comprehensive full-stack course. By the end you will be able to create a new application front to back and be able to deploy it to the web from start to finish. This is a great feeling.
The latest and greatest. ASP.NET Core in C#. It took me a while to find a course that teaches C# for the back-end programming.
Projects, projects, projects. You creating web pages and applications from day one and this is what really helps you learn, not listening to lecture after lecture.
Flexibility. You can attend in person (I recommend if you can) or remote.
A very knowledgeable and friendly instructor. Jeff is great, perhaps too flexible at times.
CONS:
It's a comprehensive course and that requires time. It's a long course, roughly 6 months, but definitely worth it.
If you are out of town, but want to attend in person, you will have to find a place to stay during the week and that can get expensive. AirBnb worked out pretty well for me, but it did add up financially.
There is no job placement built in to the course after completion, but with the amount of work you will have to show, and the help they do give with mock interviews and lectures on job preparation, finding a job shouldn't take very long. Call a recruiter and showcase your work. |
