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CodingNomads provided a thoroughly immersing experience into the world of coding. For someone like me who was not familiar with anything beyond a 'windows pc fixing' level of IT, it meant going through a steep learning curve. The learning provided an understanding of the fundamental concepts of coding, hands-on practice in the very structured online course with personal remote mentor as a starting point.
My personal reflection on the full experience is that the more time and energy you spend on the online course, the faster you follow the fastpaced exciting tasks during the on-site boot camp. Taking a good 6 to 8 weeks for the online part will get you places with Python and SQL.
Once the on-site boot camp starts, the excitement of the owners, organisation, teachers, and fellow students reaches boiling point. In warm Bali with an incredibly warm-hearted CodingNomads team, no time is needed to break ice nor bread. It is incredible how good of a connection is made with the other students, who in a majority are very likeminded and have similar aspiration for joining this boot camp.
With tropical temperatures outside, you will be spending most of the weekdays in a cool classroom with heated discussions, inspiring lectures and many practical assignments. Assignments that take shape as you progress into the boot camp. The build-up starts with simulating simple tasks that demonstrate the basic principles of Python, before moving into building code for your very own web apps. Approximately a full week is spent on web app development to go through conceptualising, building, testing, refining and going through the rabbit hole of bugs and errors that is inevitable during coding. Depending on popular demand, other subjects are discussed as well. Our cohort was interested learning about Python for Data Analysis and machine learning algorithms, which were catered for in a few days of the boot camp. After the on-site part of the course, you are left with a month of intense support in your own 'capstone project'. That's personal support from your teacher and mentors on your own coding project. A time where, based on your interests and aspired app, you are able to put all the elements of the boot camp together to design, build and launch your own web application.
Outside class, expect a lot of fun times - if you take the leap of faith to opt-in - exploring all the best food places, bars, clubs, waterfalls, trips and pools. The more fun you bring in, the more fun you get out of it.
I strongly recommend the CodingNomads Python Fullstack web development boot camp. It provided me with a thorough understanding of coding and IT principle, Python as a new (coding) language to me, and a new group of friends from across the world.
Ironically, I am writing this quite positive review after 'complaining' myself to the CodingNomads team that I could only find very positive reviews before signing up. Ofcourse, nothing in life is perfect, that includes this boot camp. Yet, having the right mindset and agility compensates for a lot of improvement points. The CodingNomads team has been very receptive to on-the-spot feedback by us on wanting or needing more time for certain topics, certain assignments, or certain topics of interest related to Python. This agility of the CodingNomads team makes any of their boot camps a great choice for anyone who is intrinsically motivated to start learning to code, as long as you put in your heart, mind and soul into learning and having fun along the way.
What are you waiting for? Jump in the CodingNomads adventure while you can!
Yours truely,
A very happy CodingNomads graduate. |
