Georgia Tech Boot Camps

This was my first big step into the world of software development and I don't think I could've made a better decision. I was a bit apprehensive at first because I knew that the course would be rigorous and fast paced, but I was quickly relieved to see that they wanted me to succeed as much as I wanted to. Not only were the instructors top notch, but the TA's were more than willing to go out of their way to help me in any way that they could.

What I appreciated the most out of the bootcamp was that they didn't coddle me through the class. They pushed me towards new ideas and new ways of thinking. They inspired me to want to build and create things on my own. Not only did they teach me WHAT to learn, they taught me HOW to learn, which is something that I'll take into other areas of my life outside of coding and software. I'm not saying that it's going to be easy, I'm saying that it's going to be worth it.

You must be prepared the first day of class. It can be hard to balance if you are working full time but it can be done. You must be willing to work in and out of class. You have to put time aside even on the weekends to get work done. I like the fact we have access to class videos incase we have to go back and to see what we learned in class again.  

People that take the cores come from different backgrounds from not knowing anything about programming to engeeners, data scienctists, designers, and programers.  

I liked presenting the projects we have made in and out of class. However, I wish we would have had more career fairs. 

I attended the Full-Stack Flex part-time program as a way of accelerating my change of career for a number of reasons. My sister was a big part of why I selected this program in particular.  Her incredibly positive journey through the program left me confident that I’d learn the skills I needed to take on a career in development. What I learned through my own experiences far surpassed even those expectations. The educational staff of instructors, TAs, career services, and our Student Success Manager made sure we had the resources needed to be successful both during and after the class completion.  As if that weren’t enough, the collaboration and friendships I developed with my classmates have lived on even after the class completion. If you’re ready to learn and want to take ownership of your future in development, this class is a great step in that direction.

During these past six months of classes, I learned the fundamentals of data analytics and acquired in depth technical skills needed to succeed in the field of data science. The team does a really good job covering a wide variety of topics and also creating a great environment for networking. The homework is, at times, overwhelming. However, the sense of accomplishment after after completing each one of them is fulfilling.

Excellent experience overall!! I would highly recommend this course to a motivated candidate.      

I was a violinist before I attended GT's Boot Camp. After determining that I wanted a career change, I needed a skill set that would make me more competitive in the job market. GT's Boot Camp gave me just that! 
I did not have ANY direct background in analytics. Although that meant that the learning curve was quite steep for me, it didn't stop me from getting what I needed. 

It is important to understand before taking this course that nothing will be handed to you. 
The program gives you: instructors, TA's, project experience, extra-curricular information (such as links to meetups in the area), online talks, career coaches, classmates and more. But it is only as good as you make it. You will be the one to hold yourself accountable. 
I did not find a job through the program. However, I wouldn't have gotten my new job if it were not for this program. The skills that I learned are directly applicable. 
Also, when negotiating my starting salary for my new job, I was able to submit my negotiating statement to a career coach. She happily looked over it and was a tremendous help! 
Take advantage of all the tools that they give you! Talk with the people in the program. Get advice from everyone about how they got to where they were. You are given opportunities to practice job interviews. Use them.

I would recommend the course to anyone wanting more skills for their current job or someone in my position. Good luck to those wanting to join!

This course is really helpful for new beginners and also for people with beginner level coding experience. The course was very helpful, everything was well explained by our teacher CJ and Hannah. They are very helpful and nice and has good knowledge about how to explain coding in a really easy and understandable way. The TAs would check up on the students at least once or twice a week and they respond really quickly when a help is needed. The course's projects and activities are really well planned. The activites go step by step and is hard but very achieving.

This course is very well orgnized is also demanding.   Instructors and TAs are well qualified to help students.   In the classroom, we had two instructors and 4 to 6 TAs in the room.   We also had 30min pre-class and 30-min after-class hour so I don't recall there was any time I could not get help during the class.   

The course gets more difficult as it goes to the end of the course.  If you don't have enough JavaScript expeirence, I recommend practicing JavaScript (both ES5 and ES6) before the class begins.    

You would want to make sure that you are ahead of the course schedule (this will make you feel more comfortable and ready for each classes).   Full 3 months or 6 months scheudle is released on day 1 of scheool day.   You should know what exactly you will learn for whole semester so it is pretty easy to find out what you need to be prepared for each classes.  

You may also want to do a lot of coding practice with JavaScript whenever you have time.   If you have time, you would want to do small projects other than give homeworks if you can.  TAs will help you any extra work you are doing.   If you just follow the exact course schedule and finish only give homework,the final four weeks of the course for React.js may become big challenge.  

It was great learing expeirence for me.   I enjoyed, struggled, and learned.   Highly recommend this cousre, but you must make sure you are commited for it, seriously.     

I came to Georgia Tech with very little background in CS. I found myself struggling through MOOC programs online and finally decided to take a chance, hoping that in-person instruction might offer deeper foundations and greater motivation. Our cohort began in August 2018, and now, facing the last day of the course looking back, I cannot believe how much we've achieved as a class. 

The classroom was made up of CS and biomedical graduates, designers retooling their skills, IT staff, employer-sponsored tech workers, and an array of people like myself who were revisioning their career, keen to become employer-competitive again. I made some amazing friends, who are people I never would have met without this experience, people who impress and surprise me with their curiosity and striking innovation.

My instructional team was truly exceptional in every way. CJ and Hannah are incredibly competent technical workers who stress best practices in group workflow environments and promote highly organized, modular code. CJ's interview prep periods before class were full of smart tricks and clues to help us understand the technical coding interview process and present ourselves in the most authentic, personable and honest way. Hannah is a master at pacing the classroom lecture environment by anticipating confusing material and troubleshooting common errors to make sure we don't fall behind when iterative material stops making sense or we mistakenly drop a step. I always felt we were being supported, seen, and listened to when we were struggling with concepts. If we were falling behind and failing to understand the material, Tatiana would run breakout sessions and remediation to help us stay on track. On top of this, CJ, Hannah, and Tatiana created a playful side project in which classmates formed teams and completed career oriented coding challenges to earn points for their team. Quarterly, we celebrated the victories in the form of the Harry Potter House Cup, complete with thematic prizes and coding workshops (programming bots, hacking/cyber security tutorials, and interactive trivia games to learn our tools/languages). We developed more robust portfolios through the games, pull requests, and blog posts we earned for our teams, motivating everyone to do more and giving us a really great way to bond with our classmates. Towards the end of our course, we even took a dive into CS fundamentals (data structures and algorithmns-specifically hashmaps, binary trees, Big O notation), which was so helpful in foundational learning. 

The course material was difficult for a true beginner, I can't deny that. In the beginning, we completed projects week by week, attempting to learn pure Javascript via jQuery, CSS and HTML. Every project slowed to a crawl and took many hours. This is when I was most vulnerable to quitting. Be prepared to spend copious amounts of time to see small changes and then break them over and over. You will spend a lot of time learning how to find your own answers, perfecting the art of the search, and forgetting what you taught yourself. These circular paths become familiar and eventually you can welcome the struggle of breakage, ultimately learning the nuances and behaviors of object-oriented languages. I learned to know/trust myself better through learning to code, learning how I would have approached a problem and evolving to grow beyond that approach. If you are really dedicated to learning a new skill and changing the way you think, I would wholeheartedly recommend this course. It is a big step, but one worth taking.