16-Week Beginner Coding Bootcamp with JavaScript & Python

If you already have on the job experience  ith JavaScript, back-end web development, or have worked with other languages extensively, it's a great certification to get for your resume. If you don't, this program will not provide you with anything you couldn't do on your own. The curriculum after the first month boils down to "here's a 15 minute talk about a subject for the week. If you run into anything you don't know how to do, Google it." The help desk (student volunteers) are instructed to only answer questions with canned responses: 'try looking it up with different phrasing on stack overflow,' 'try thinking about the problem in a different way,' and my favorite, 'go back and study the basics again.' Instructors can be reached out to, but on the rare occasion they make time they're more likely to tell you to spend another night googling than give advice or guidance. If you aren't meeting every deadline around the halfway point -- which was most people in my cohort that weren't already experienced in the field -- you might get what I got, which was a call from the staff suggesting I restart the program to make sure I wasn't under-prepared for the back half. Not the worst suggestion, until they mention that you're paying for the entire program twice if you do that. I ended up taking their second piece of advice, which was to drop out before taking the mid term since you save a couple thousand dollars if you give up before you know for sure that you should.

I left in the first week and received a full refund. The instructors kept pushing the students to participate and collaborate.  In my first week this often ended up with students "participating" by asking questions and the instructors letting it bleed into our lesson time.  And the questions were often students getting ahead of themselves and the answer would come later in the course (we're only in the first week!) The lead eventually said sometimes asking "Why?" gets in the way of productivity.  But still they let us ask and we ended up running out of time in our lesson.  After the lesson is a 15-minute break and the junior instructor was offering to stay to finish teaching us but the lead instructor insisted they have their break.  OK, so you can eat up 15 minutes of our class time but God forbid your precious break!  I think it's up to the instructor to set limits for both breaks and lesson times equally.Another bone to pick with the participation.  They kept splitting us into groups of 3/4 for each lesson.  I hadn't had a chance to be with everyone, but tell me why I get put in the same group as a guy 4 times the first week in class -- once on the first day and THREE times on my last day? And having been with this man for three straight groups on my final day, it was disgusting to see him change personalities depending on who was in the group.  Seems from what I hear they vote for who gets to be a SEIR, and I believe them!  Everyone who had the opportunity to speak with my cohort that first week said the same narrative of you should ask questions, you should talk.  I agree, but when I have learned and can collaborate on that knowledge.  The first week should be to learn.

As a former student of the Hack Reactor 19-week Bootcamp, I found that the program had some significant flaws. While I found the curriculum to be challenging and informative, the classroom experience was often chaotic and disorganized. One of the biggest issues I encountered was the sheer number of students in the program. With so many people vying for the instructors' attention, it was challenging to get the support and guidance I needed to succeed. While the instructors were willing to help when they could, there simply weren't enough of them to provide individual attention to every student. Unfortunately, this lack of personalized support left me feeling overwhelmed and frustrated at times. I often struggled to keep up with the fast-paced curriculum and found myself falling behind my peers. Despite my best efforts, I sometimes felt like I wasn't making progress or getting the feedback I needed to improve. Overall, I believe that the instructors at the Hack Reactor Coding Bootcamp are knowledgeable and dedicated to their craft. However, the sheer number of students in the program made it challenging for them to provide the individual attention and support that many of us needed to succeed. If you are considering this program, be prepared to be self-motivated and ready to do a lot of self-studying.

I did the 19-week BootCamp with Hack Reactor/ Galvanize and it was pretty mediocre.- module 1 was quite useful, learned a lot about python and django - also the lecturers were decentbuilt a CRUD todos app using django in the backend - looked pretty bare bones- module 2 - changed to new lecturers- lectures were absolutely horrid and abominable - some of the lecturers didn't really know their material, the explorations were not concise and terribly structured - at this point, the seirs ( students from previous cohorts hired to help/increase their employment numbers - were somewhat helpful ) - explorations were poorly written and a lot of members in my cohort were struggling - practically worked as a group to learn the materialmodule 3 - seirs ( student TAs from previous cohorts - aid was nonexistent) - new lecturers - same as before - horrid bland lectures that didn't benefit students -basically you working on a project for 5 weeksI was appalled at the quality of career services - forcing you to lie on your resume and come up with false numbers to make your resume "better"To make matters worse for the next seirs they hired, they based on people's votes and votes from previous instructors. One of the seirs they hired and I kid you not, set up camp hogging the sier's time. When they would be done and asked to leave, they would jump to the next seir room.The majority of the time, I was forced to see other materials to supplement my learning. TBH, this program is absolutely garbage, save your money and just work on udemy videos because that's basically what you'll have to do.