| | Anonymous | The first half of the course was front-end heavy (html, css, jQuery) and I felt like this section had great course materials that were thorough. However, the second half of the class was not as strong. Some of the course materials, especially for React, had broken links and examples with deprecated code. Code changes frequently but I was told that the course has a group that is responsible for keeping the material up-to-date. Despite having time allocated to these topics in curriculum, we didn't have much time for React, React Native, or PHP. The instructor instead took a couple days to set up a wordpress site.
One of the reasons I chose the UT course over other local bootcamps was the fact that they advertised tech companies that they were affiliated with. They presented this as if we would get contacts from these companies but I reached out to one company who had no idea they were still being used in the bootcamp's marketing. We didn't have career support until the last few weeks of the course when a new career counselor was hired and even then we only received a couple leads for positions that could not be found on the basic job posting search engines. We had a resume workshop with information that seemed out-dated and wasn't specific to resumes for tech positions. The TAs were great and were extremely helpful throughout the course and even after.
We received feedback on our first couple homework assignments but code reviews would have been extremely helpful for the later material. This course gave me a good foundation for front-end coding but I had to rely heavily on external sources for the rest of the material. |
