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Coming from a background in music education and stage management, I never dream of I could build an app in such a short period of time. Before joining Le Wagon, I tried to learn it myself by completing online courses a few times, but each time I didn't have a clear direction of how to put all things that I've learned together. Hence, after researching and contact some alumni, Le Wagon stood out from all the rest for me in terms of the price, diversity of the cohort, learning environment, especially the curriculum which is product-driven.

Le Wagon for me is joining a community, not a bootcamp. It may seem overwhelming at the beginning but trust me they will provide you with the tools for your success. I love the pair-programming which developed my problem-solving and communication skills, and the flashcards to help me to grab these key concepts in a short intense period. The most amazing thing that I truly value during my time in Le Wagon was meeting so many like-minded people. Not just meeting our teachers and cohort, learning in a co-working space got me a chance to meet different designers, entrepreneurs, developers and etc. It helps me to stay motivated and inspired throughout the coding journey. The teacher and TAs are always there to support you and it will make time fly and you will be learning a lot really fast.

The only cons I'd say is "Why didn't I start this program earlier?". For the people who are considering to join the bootcamp, I highly recommended and it is definitely worth it. 

Aujourd'hui, les coding bootcamps se multiplient dans la France entière. Avant de faire Le Wagon, je m'étais bien renseigné sur la concurrence. En pleine réorientation professionnelle, j'avais besoin d'une formation présentielle car je manquais cruellement de motivation pour suivre une formation (dans un domaine où la rigueur et le sérieux sont essentiels) de chez moi. J'avais peur de retourner sur les bancs de l'école et retrouver cette ambiance où on nous fait apprendre des choses sans en comprendre la finalité. Au Wagon, j'ai été agréablement surpris par le contenu pédagogique de la formation tant il était excellent. Nous avons accès à vie à des cours (vidéos et écrits) et des exercices, le tout étant continuellement mis à jour. Cependant le contenu de la formation est très dense il est alors essentiel de travailler sérieusement et de faire preuve de persévérance. Finalement Le Wagon et son équipe pédagogique ont réussi à me transmettre leur envie et leur passion, et je continue à étudier de chez moi avec cette même passion et motivation, ce qui m'était avant impensable. De plus, je me considère aujourd'hui capable de mener un projet web de A à Z. Le Wagon est donc un véritable tremplin professionnel pour toute personne motivée et sérieuse. Cette formation est une expérience humainement et professionnellement très enrichissante que je referai sans hésiter et que je recommande les yeux fermés.

When I decided to join  Le Wagon, I didn’t know what to expect. The reviews I had seen were overwhelmingly positive but you never know what can happen. My goal was to learn how to code in order to be able to get a job and, of course, continue my learning journey after the bootcamp.

We had to do some prep work before the bootcamp  to help us get prepared. I had finished it in time, but I have to admit that I didn’t understand everything.

Before the first day, everyone ( teachers and students), met to grab some drinks and to get to know each other better. Everyone was friendly and interesting.

During the bootcamp, being obliged to code all day really propelled my skills into another realm, the stuff I didn’t understand while reading about it in the prep work I understood, sometimes on the spot, during the bootcamp by putting it into practice. That would be one of my main pieces of advice to anyone wanting to learn to code : get your hands dirty. Practice over theory. 

Now that the bootcamp is over, I am proud of what I have learned and can say that, for me, it was an overwhelmingly positive experience. Of course I am still a junior developer at the beginning of my coding education but I now have the tools to keep learning on my own. And perhaps, even more importantly, I made great friends and connections at the bootcamp from all over the world. 

For the reader that is considering doing a bootcamp, make sure that your expectations are aligned with the program at the bootcamp, because the program is not made for everyone. But once you are sure that bootcamp is for you, I’m sure you will have a great time !

Best bootcamp ever!
It's not just about technical skills, but an experience for life!
After finish Le Wagon I launched my own app! They teach you the most simple and efficient way to code.
The staff is awesome and they care kindly of us!
I would give 900 stars!

They teach everything a person needs to know, coding, how to think through the problem and how to solve the problem.
To think though and solve the problem was one of best things they teach, the best way to look up the problem in the internet.
Besides coding, the people are awsome, Le Wagon ain't only a bootcamp, it's my second family.

I had a great time at Le Wagon, enrolling was a decision I won’t regret. Before enrolling I had tried to self teach a lot of the front end aspects of coding and while I made some progress I definitely struggled to put it properly into anything project wise. After looking at some other courses I kept getting drawn back to Le Wagon because of the stellar reviews and after speaking to Alex I was sure I was making the right decision. The experience was well-designed with the lessons very informative and well-paced so that even though its an intense learning experience you never feel out of your depth. The teachers and teaching assistants are what really make the course, always willing to help and patient when talking through some of the more challenging aspects. At the end of it you really feel like a member of a community. The 9 weeks at Le Wagon London were great fun and I feel ready to enter the tech workplace.

Whether you are looking for a career change or an entrepreneur looking to put your idea into practice, I can definitely recommend Le Wagon!

I decided to make a career change from Marketing and Communication to coding after I had attended a one-day coding workshop at Le Wagon Barcelona and worked on several small personal projects afterward. I looked at several other boot camps and chose Le Wagon based on the combination of reputation, price, length, of course, class size, diversity of the cohort, course content, teaching environment, and approach, but mostly the focus on building a product and developing problem-solving skills.

I wasn't really sure what to expect as I was very new to the world of coding, and I remember that one of my biggest fears was to take this course and realize that coding wasn't for me. But the opposite happened. I completely fell in love with code, and had that sensation of finding a box with endless tools that enable you to build great things. The passion of our teachers and the motivation all the students bring to the course each day creates a unique atmosphere that really lets you thrive and advance at an incredible speed.

Besides the great program Le Wagon has set up and the skills and concepts they teach you, the community (teachers and alumni) is incredible! There are so much support and resources which I found to be very very helpful especially after the boot camp!

What I gained are new skills to join the tech world but more importantly more confidence in myself.

Having no previous background in coding, it was a struggle in the first couple of weeks of the bootcamp; it was very challenging and intense but the curriculum is very well made and the quality of the teaching was excellent. The whole team at Le Wagon Montreal were very helpful and teachers + TA's were always available to answer questions.

I also made new friends whom I can discuss and solve bugs! 

One tip I can give is not to be shy and to write a lot of tickets.

It was an amazing experience and one of the most rewarding accomplishment for me. I will be forever grateful to Le Wagon and I fully recommend them for anyone who wants to start coding!

Before joining the bootcamp I was working as a Learning Program Manager for B2B training at NUMA, a french accelerator. I wanted to switch the way I was working and decided to learn software engineering. I wanted to become a Product Manager and knew that's I lacked of knowledges on this field. The bootcamp gave me clear insights on the skills and tools required to develop product and helped me find the right company to grow as a Product Manager.

I have a degree in physical therapy, and decided to change careers. When I found the idea of ​​bootcamp, I liked it, but I had a fear, after all what is promised is something serious. Today after finishing the bootcamp of Le Wagon, I have only to praise and thank, the whole course is very planned, the methodology wonderful. It was a life experience. Would highly recommend.

Going to Le Wagon was one of the best decisions I ever made.

Before the bootcamp, I worked in research in University, then for nearly three years in Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) working with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders. In this role we used some apps and I collected, entered and managed data, and this all made my burgeoning interest in technology grow. While working in ABA was very rewarding, I came to a point where I knew I needed to do something else, and I knew I wanted to pursue something involving technology while still incorporating my interests and skills I already had.

I started taking courses on codeacademy to see if this was truly a path I wanted to go down; if I enjoyed it; if I was interested in it; if I was any good at it. I decided I did, but after a few months taking courses, I knew I wanted to go somewhere where I could truly be immersed in coding, and learn as much as I could possibly learn. So I started looking up bootcamps online, and all the reviews I read led me to Le Wagon.

Attending Le Wagon was a wonderful experience. I learned more than I ever thought possible over the course of 9 weeks. Now I can say I am a Full-Stack Developer, thanks to my experience at Le Wagon. 

My favorite part of the course was the group projects at the end. They put us in a position where we were free to be creative and apply our new coding skills to this process. While we were coding these apps by ourselves, we still had the support of all the teachers/TAs. They were ready to answer any questions we had as well as help guide us to a conclusion if we needed it without totally giving away the answer to solve the problem, so we could be guided to figure it out ourselves.

Overall I definitely recommend Le Wagon if you are looking to immerse yourself in coding and especially if you want to make a change in your career.

I was very surprised by the overall experience at Le Wagon since I didn't look up for any references and only knew the existence of Le Wagon and IronHack. I chose Le Wagon only because their PDF looked better haha and honestly couldn't be happier with my choice!

First because they have a buddy system, which is so powerful for your learning! Having someone different every day by your side can enrich the way you approach problems and give you different perspectives about logical thinking.

Second because you have a plataform in which you can see all lectures material and challenges you have to do. It is so organized and you can revisit any time you want, even after the course.

Third because at the end of the bootcamp, you build two web app in group. It is good to learn how you'd work in real life with team members and also to consolidate all the learning. And if you're feeling confident, you can search for diiferent features (that you didn't learn at the course) to use in your app and have all the help from the teachers to implement them with you.

So, if you're in doubt about which bootcamp to do, I would definetely recommend Le Wagon! :)

Before I joined Le Wagon, I was a student, then I was a monk for about 10 years in an french abbey. The monastic life is full of surprises, and I exercised various activities, in addition to prayer, including a bit of code (!), but without too much time for that. At the end of these years, I realized that it was better for me to leave the monastery and to come back to the world. The code appeared to me as the best way to quickly find a job.

A friend told me about Le Wagon, and I was immediately excited by this short and powerful bootcamp. The 9 very intensive weeks allowed me to assimilate technical skills, thanks to the work with buddies or as a team, undoubtedly one of the best ways to learn!

Teamwork was so good that one of the friends of my batch suggested me to join his company as a consultant so that we could continue to work together on web/tech projects.

Change your life, learn to code is for me more than a tag, it's a reality: 4 months after leaving the monastery, I already have a job! :)

Honestly, it was an amazing two months.

I started the bootcamp with very little coding experience and I am just astonished how I got through this quite dense program.

At first, you can get a bit scared by the amount of information you will need to digest on a daily basis but actually they have nailed the pedagogy behind it: 1h30 morning class, 6h exercise with a buddy and then some small daily exercise to do at the end of the day to memorise the main points you learned during the day.

But all of this wouldn't be possible with out the five-stars staff at the Paris bootcamp… All the teachers, teachers assistants and the main staff are la crème de la crème. As soon as you start the program, you sense a sort of "family feeling" because everybody is ready to help each other. If you are having issues, the teachers are there to guide you and not give an easy answer, that makes a big difference.  

On top of that, the community and event staff are on fire – organising events on a weekly basis in order for each batch to know each other better but as well with external guests with whom we can exchange on many topics like "go freelance", "how to set up your first startup", "how to manage your finance" etc... When I decided to undertake that bootcamp, I wasn't sure what I wanted to do afterwards (PM, Dev or stay in my field of Marketing) and although I have continue in Marketing, I can finally have a full conversation with the tech/product team and have them completely understand my needs and be much more efficient. Fully recommended!

As part of my Business School master, I had the opportunity to learn a lot of things doing several internships as a strategy consultant. However, I had the feeling that it was absolutely not the field in which I wanted to work in the future. I started to listen to some podcasts about the French startups environment and I found an interview of Boris and Romain Paillard, the two Le Wagon co-founders. This interview was clearly an eye-opener and I felt that coding was something I really wanted to learn. Therefore, I did my last internship in a startup specialized in food delivery as a data analyst. I could learn some skills about SQL and I really loved it.

Consequently, I decided to start Le Wagon coding bootcamp in order to get hard skills and find a job in tech. This decision was one of the best I have ever taken in my whole life. Despite the fact that I have learnt how to code in several programming languages, Le Wagon made me live an incredible human experience, meeting and working with so many different people with the buddy system. The teachers are always there to help you when you need them and at the end you can build by yourself a real project, whether it is a mobile app or a website.

Thanks to Le Wagon I shared an amazing adventure with a great team of people and I will launch my start-up meeting my co-founder alongside the final project.

Before coming to Bali for the Le Wagon FullStack coding Bootcamp, I was a manager at Cheesecake Factory in the US. I really wanted to learn a new skill that would stay with me and stay relevant for as long as possible. 

It's a very intense course, 9 weeks, 9am to 7pm Monday to Friday, with lectures every morning and working on coding exercises the rest of the day. Sometimes actually way more than those hours because it's definitely not easy to learn so many concepts so there are days where I either came in early or stayed late to master what was taught. However, if you put your heart into it, great things happen. It's really amazing what you get out of the program. You learn something new every day, literally, and in the last two weeks it all comes together. 

My final project was a social investment app and I really enjoyed working in a team to produce the app. The people that come to Le Wagon to learn how to code are definitely of a certain caliber. We've all made the conscious decision to invest in our education and essentially, our future. The group of people in my batch that I got to know were amazing. Outside of class we also did some social stuff and even had a weekly cook-off at one of the student's houses. It really feels like a community that we build together. 

Le Wagon offers an amazing location to learn how to code at a very affordable price, especially coming from the US. It helps that Bali has a lower cost of living so even besides the program, living in Bali was very reasonable. It was also easy to get around on a scooter and I was able to explore the different neighborhoods as well. 

The Le Wagon staff is the best. They really take care of you in and outside of the classroom. They make it their #1 goal to ensure that we each have the best learning experience possible and I couldn't ask for more.

Before joining Le Wagon, I was working as a Junior PM in a tech start-up. I was very interesting on learning how to code, so i tried to learn by myself but the overwhelming level of information I found on the web and the apparent difficulty made me give up quickly.

This is where Le Wagon Paris came in. Honestly, the program is such that you can learn very efficiently and acquire all the necessary knowledge to let you stand on your own feet.
The environment was super great, I had fun everyday. In only 2 months I meet a lot of amazing people that inspired me, whether it was during the classes or the afterworks.

I'm extremely happy and grateful for the experience. I couldn't have made a better use of my time.

Being a business school student not on the job market yet, my few job experiences made me realize one thing : I might have screwed up my education orientation.
Thankfully, some short-length programs are available to make up for that, and that's when Le Wagon showed up.  
The program is only 9 weeks long and can easily fit in a tight schedule with a few arrangements made (i'm still a student so obviously that was easier for me).
I didn't really know what to expect from it, as i had no damn clue how coding worked even though i've always been tech-savvy.

But oh boy was i in for a surprise, and a great one.
The teaching-staff is highly competent and partially composed of former students as well as full-time teachers. The building and classroom give a nice atmosphere to focus and work, and the curriculum is made so that you get to meet new people and participate in few activities that will make each week unique.

It's been a month since Le Wagon is over and i'm already missing it and the numerous people i've met there and probably won't see again.
Would definitely do it again if i had not already gained the technical skills taught there (because the program is that good).
Le Wagon helped me develop new and useful skills, and gave me the tools to rethink my long-term professionnal and personnal goals.

One downside however:  i might have developed a caffeine addiction.

For 7 years, I had been organizing events related to wine, gastronomy and rugby for B2B customers. I had learnt to code on my own to automatize weekly and monthly financial reports and I really liked it. It’s something that I really liked to do, this is why I decided to become a developer.
I wanted to learn web development because it requires technical skills and also creative skills, as you build the apps you want. I chose Le Wagon in Paris because the pedagogy is great : one hour and a half a day of theory and then exercises during the rest of the day. The last 3 weeks are dedicated to building an app in teams. The teachers are great, the team is fantastic and I’ve learned much more than I expected in only 2 months ! The community is also one of the reason why I joined Le Wagon : it’s very active and helpful ! My experience at Le Wagon was awesome, I highly recommend this bootcamp to all the people who want to learn web development !

After 7 years working as a digital project manager in web agencies, I decided it was about time to look behind the curtain and understand how the websites I was working on were made.

I was constantly asked by my clients how long it took to correct or build a feature, and quite often I was completely mistaken. Even though I was trying my best to understand what the developers were saying, I realized I needed to experiment this world myself and learn everything from scratch.

And after these two amazing months in Le Wagon, I have quit my job and I’m now searching a job as a developer ! I know that the road ahead is long, and I have still so many things to learn, but I know that I’ve got all the tools needed to keep on learning the right way.