The Hacking School

I am a UI designer who wanted to change myself to Coding Environment. After Searching all the BootCamp, I decided to join  TheHackingSchool after talking to Prashanth about the course. I would recommend this hacking school, which is a well Structured full Stack web Development Curriculum. Prashanth is an Expert in making us to show the right path way to make us learn quickly in the 17 week journey, from algorithms to full stack deployment.
This is a perfect place for beginners to want to start coding.
I would recommend this BootCamp giving a 5 star for my instructor and the School.

Curriculum is well Planned and Instructors are expertise in their area.

I am Mahima and I am about to complete my graduation this year. I had a great time with this bootcamp session which was guided by Sadiya who was very good in making me understand about the benefits of it. My mentor and instructor was Mansoor who was extremely calm and helpful throughout my whole session. He helped me whenever I needed any help and was ready to guide me at any time of the day which was very good and comfortable for me. The complete session was guided by him in a very good manner. I had enjoyed a lot and learned a lot things which was new to me and helped me in reaching out many different aspects of coding.

I was the part of Class of 2019 - Cohort D. I joined The Hacking School with a fair bit of coding background (not related to web development particularly). 

As the program assumes bootcampers to have no prior experience in programming, the curriculum for the first couple of weeks felt very basic for me. It starts from teaching you the bare minimum fundamentals of Computer Science, and programming in general. It covered topics ranging from Logic Gates, Number System, Computer Networks, and basics of Data Structures and Algorithms. But the good part about these initial weeks was that I never felt I was not learning enough. In the first week, we had one-on-one sessions with our Instructors, who made sure that each one of us was getting additional tasks that suited ones previous experience in programming. The tasks kept me engaging for the basic part of the curriculum. 

Once we progressed to learn the MERN stack, things started to get challenging. We were learning heaps of concepts every single day. Most of the concepts taught were coupled with a kind of mini project, that showed its real-world use case. We were taught not just the "what" part of some function's behavior, but also "how" and "why" it behaves, the way it is supposed to. 

All the instructors have their unique style of teaching, and each one of them has an immense amount of knowledge in the field to their expertise. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the time spent at the Bootcamp. 

I attended The Hacking School's web development bootcamp from July to Sep 2019 and it was an intense 13 weeks. During those 13 weeks we learnt full stack web development (MERN stack - MongoDB / Express / React / Node) and gained an entry to the world of programming and development. Most importantly, we learnt how to learn on our own.

I had come to the bootcamp with no prior programming experience however, that was not a problem as we started from ground zero. We started with number systems and basics of HTML and CSS. We soon started learning JavaScript, writing simple algorithms and exploring the language. JavaScript is the chosen language for the course because it is incredibly versatile allowing us to write both server-side and client-side code.

In the middle of the hectic 13 weeks we were given a break on week 7. We were told that there won't be any classes that week but we had to utilize it to build something on our own. To be honest I couldn't build anything by the end of that time period but that week made me realize the gaps in my knowledge. That turned out to be an important learning experience for me.

Additionally, there was always help available when we needed it. Our instructors, as well as other seniors, were happy to help and clarify doubts whenever we reached out to them. This promoted a culture where we learnt a lot from outside as well as inside the classroom.

At the end of the course we had learnt much more about computers than just our stack. We learnt to use command-line-interfaces and interact with Linux machines. We learnt different types of hosting including GCP(Google cloud platform) hosting and implemented CICD with Jenkins. We learnt to "hack" our way out of problems.