Tecnológico de Monterrey Boot Camps

I was looking for full-stack classes and found out about this bootcamp through facebook. I had an interview and was really interested in joining but had my doubts, given that I no experience on the topic.

If you are having the same feelings as I did, I suggest you practice first with online courses and then join the bootcamp, otherwise you will feel stressed and many things won’t make sense. It is a very challenging journey in which time will be always against you. Don’t get me wrong, it is fun, challenging, interesting and a practical bootcamp, but when you think you are in control, next week’s lesson will teach you that you aren’t.

It is called a bootcamp for a reason, and time is very important. Everything happens really fast. I stopped working the days of the bootcamp in order to work on my homeworks and practice with my tutor, but still I felt I needed more time.

Did it meet my expectations:
-Until this moment, it has but I’m quite aware that I won’t be able to do what I expected after the course until I reach a certain level of mastery over the topics.
-Teachers are great, very supportive.
-The location of the campus was good at the beginning but then they changed it and sometimes we arrive late and have to walk a lot because we didn’t have a close parking lot.

What needs to be changed:
-I want to suggest at least an extra month of classes. This will help future students learn theory before practicing.
-The prework helps but it's not enough if you don’t have previous knowledge on programming.
-The teaching strategy wasn't the best at first, but it improved.

-The classroom didn't have the adequate conditions: air conditioning, connections. 

Mi experiencia general... he aprendido muchisimo definitivamente. Solo al principio pense que la clase iba a un ritmo algo lento. Ahoritilla para el week 19 (?) lo describiria como mas complicado y dificil de concentrarse, porque ahora los ejercicios involucra abrir varias cosas a la vez.. Ami lo personal me hubiera gustado que la clases funcionen mas como un taller con asesoria. Me gusto poder crear mis propios programas y no tener que hacer una tarea definida. Me hubiera gustado que pudiera hacer mas preguntas cuando estoy fuera de clase, mientras trabajo en mis proyectos.

This course has been a very rewarding experience for me. I wanted to learn a programming language that I could use for work, there are tons of online courses that you could take and some of them are even free but for me, I needed a program like this that could fit with my work schedule and have someone to explain me in case I had difficulties on some topics and this is exactly what I was expecting.

The course is well organized, with all the activities, homework’s and projects and the pace is really good.

Finally, it was beyond my expectations and I did learn a lot, all the team (instructor, TA's, etc.) helped us a lot and they were very patient and dedicated.

Without a doubt, I definitely recommend this course.

I was very interested in learning how to code. I tried to learn with MOOCs and other pages, but I was lost. I really needed the basic-basics. The first part of this course (the first two weeks) were very good for that purpose.

If you’ve learned something online before and liked the experience, try to learn by yourself before joining a bootcamp. But if you need an extra push, this way of learning sure helps. I took the online bootcamp and really enjoyed the experience. I had good relationship with almost all my classmates and learn a lot from them! It’s nice to start coding with people who can support you.

In the course there was people that already knew how to code, and people (like myself) that didn’t have a clue. For me, after taking this course, I feel I covered the basics, but still have a long way to go coding-wise. That is different for the people that knew programming before. For them, this course complemented their knowledge and I find that their profile is more well-rounded than before.

I’m grateful that now I feel that I know where to go from here, but for me, this course more than making me a full-stack developer, just accelerated my knowledge in coding, but I have a lot of things to learn, still. The difference is that now I know what I need to learn, my strengths and my coding weaknesses.

I don’t think this course is for everybody. You really need time for this bootcamp! And I think it’s better if you want to change your career path and if you’re very determined, dedicate a lot of your time, learn by yourself, make a good network with your classmates…It lasts only 6 months, but it is a true commitment.