AI Software bootcamp | On campus, full-time

I’m an entrepreneur and a mother of 2 young kids. My friends consider me to be somewhat of a geek, i.e., I love all things tech, which is not very trendy among the women of my generation (although, I’m the least geek of geeks). It’s funny how being an entrepreneur and being a parent have one important thing in common that radically changes one’s life: You are out of control, and you find yourself out of your comfort zone constantly.

Le Wagon radically changed my life in 2 different ways.

The first one is that I co-launch the bootcamp in Montreal with my brother Antoine. It was a huge step in entrepreneurship, but I was so excited and honored to bring the world's highest-rated bootcamp to my city. Driven by my passion about the product and its community, we took our place in the lively Montreal tech ecosystem, built a great team, and, so far, have offered this amazing life-changing experience to over 120 students.

The second way it changed my life is that I took the full-stack program myself and fulfilled a long-standing ambition: learn to code. I spent 2 incredible months studying at a very fast pace in a stimulating and very (very) challenging environment (as my background was not technical at all). But thanks to some key ingredients this experience was one of the best of my life. Here they are:

**CURRICULUM**: The curriculum is excellent and the pedagogy is focused on practicality -> at the end of each day we master key concepts and are ready to grab new ones the next day.


**ONLINE PLATFORM**: The pedagogical platform is a really powerful tool -> it gives 24-hour lifetime access to all the lectures, challenge material, and more. A great asset that we could rely on during and after bootcamp.


**GREAT PEOPLE**: The passionate teachers who were 100% dedicated to us and supported us through our learning experience, and the great people around me that made for the perfect learning environment.


**DETERMINATION & TRUST**: And last, but not least, my determination and the absolute trust I had in my capacity to succeed (it’s hard but I can do it) and the trust in the program & the team (they are the best and they know where we’re heading too).

My only regret is not having done it earlier

Graduated from a business school and after specializing myself in asset management during a few years in the most largest banks, I decided to learn code for several reasons.

I saw that the industry of finance and the job market were radically changing and I wanted to be an actor of this paradigm shift. I also wanted to acquire concrete skills that will allow me to directly work in smaller and disruptive companies.

Le Wagon brought more than I expected: coding & design skills, start up culture, a network and last but not least it improved my way of learning.

Today I am now working as a product manager for a start up that builds a platform where companies can automate and design conversations with their customers through AI.

Before doing Le Wagon's program in Montreal, I had spent half a dozen years owning a yoga and massage studio in Boston, and had always thought "If I could just spend a year in a cave with no distractions, I know I could build better software than the stuff we've had to use." Ultimately, once I decided to take the plunge, I chose Le Wagon's program because I thought it'd be great to be able to go pretty much anywhere in the world and have an instant community around me. And, sure enough, even as I type this, I'm sitting at a sun-lit desk in Le Wagon's Berlin campus, enjoying some free co-working space and coffee while students from at least three continents work on coding challenges a few feet away, embracing their inner dreamer and releasing their inner nerd.

The program itself is brilliantly constructed. You begin the day with a lecture (which is also available on video  even after you've graduated), and then spend the rest of the day doing coding challenges to lock in and expand upon what you've just learned. You're intentionally taught just enough to get to the edge of the solution, forcing you to learn how to research and think like a developer. Over the course of the program, you'll actually start to catch yourself facing challenges differently, with more of a sense of "I don't know how to do that . . . yet. I guess I'll find out." And at this point, I can honestly say that I *do* now know how to build better software than the industry standard in my previous business, and I'm really looking forward to doing just that.

In addition to the program itself, I think the platforms for alumni are really impressive. You'll have life-time access to the course materials online, and new tutorials and helpful resources get added all the time. The almost four thousand alumni also have access to multiple message groups on Slack, making it really easy to say "I'm going to be in Shanghai next month. Does anybody want to grab a beer?" In some cities, like Berlin, there is free space set aside for alumni to use as a co-working environment -- even if the alumni did the program in other cities. And alumni often get invited to serve as teaching assistants, and eventually teachers, in multiple cities. One of my favorite classmates from Montreal is a TA there right now, and one of my favorite TAs from Montreal is right here in Berlin with me right now, teaching Ruby.

Make no mistake. The program is challenging. You will absolutely learn new curses while you learn new programming languages. But you will come out of it with a profound sense of accomplishment and, more importantly, possibility.

Just do it.

After graduating in business three years ago, I started working as a project manager on innovative services and digital products for large companies. Working every day with designers and developers I realized that I lacked some technical knowledge, I felt like I was always asking dumb questions, or not understanding how much work was needed to build something.

I decided to go to Le Wagon to improve my technical skills…it was the best decision ever!

Le Wagon is an incredible experience. You learn so much in 9 weeks and meet amazing people.

What I liked the most was the classes' practical approach and exercises.

Every morning you learn new things that you apply in the afternoon to solve problems, even on the first day.

The lead teachers are always available, and you still can get help from the teaching assistants who are there every day.

The level is regularly increasing, you start with easy concepts then to building and launching a web app in the last weeks.

There is also an excellent mindset between all students, really friendly, we all helped each other a lot.

Almost every day we would have lunch together, and Friday dinner every 
week.

The alumni community is active as well, probably the best Slack on earth!

Le Wagon doesn’t make you a computer science engineer, but it definitively gives you the keys to keep learning and start a new career as a developer.

It is a robust and intensive nine-week bootcamp. You feel tired at the end of the day to the extent that your brain hurts, but the learning experience is so great. It is like you grow a new coding brain in 9 weeks.

I would do it again!

I am very thankful for my time at Le Wagon, and for the opportunities it has opened up for me. Whether you want to become a junior developper or as an entrepreneur launch your own project, or work as a freelance : Le Wagon team does everything they can to help get you achieve your goals 🎯

Teachers and lovely staff strive to create and maintain a unique environment where students can learn new technologies with the best practices and hone their programming skills in the best conditions 🌿 The courses are intense; be prepared to work hard. I learned a lot, very quickly and pair programming was a blast.

The best part about going to Le Wagon is the amazing group of students and the robust alumni community that you get to be part of, it’s the perfect place to meet brilliant people ✨After the Bootcamp you’re still connected to everyone through Slack.

I Would highly highly recommend Le Wagon to anyone wanting a career in tech, or anyone who want to build and launch new products with a lean startup mindset. If you are still indecisive : JUST DO IT.

After working almost 10 years in a Hotel, I realised it was no longer for me. I was tired of working 10 to 14 hours per day, I barely had any time to enjoy my personal life and was mentally and physically exhausted. So, I had to make a decision and look for something different. After doing a bit of solo traveling, I realised what I really wanted in life, and that was to be free to travel wherever, work whenever and for whoever I want. After quite a lot of research, I found that Freelance Web Developer was the way to go as it combines my passion for traveling and new technologies. Looking deeper at what was needed to become a freelance developer, I thought to myself that this would take too much time to learn all by myself and would soon hit a brick wall so I then searched for coding bootcamps. It was then that I found Le Wagon, one of the best coding bootcamps in the world. At first, after reading all the reviews, it seemed too good to be true. But after talking and meeting with the founder in person in December 2017, and also seeing the location of Le Wagon Bali, I just had to take advantage of this opportunity and apply for the course. As of June 15th, 2018, I finally quit my job and flew off to Bali for two months to take part in what would be the best experience ever. Le Wagon Bali has given me all the basic tools needed for getting started as a full-stack web developer and more. For those interested in taking the same path, I highly recommend Le Wagon, Bali. The staff were outstanding, patient and were always available to help. This bootcamp has taught me Ruby, SQL, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Rails, and many others. Due to the intensiveness of this course, it was pretty overwhelming at the beginning and almost felt like giving up but thankfully, with the help of teachers and other students, I didn’t feel alone in the struggle and was able to get through it and felt more confident about what I had learnt. The final weeks were the most interesting as this is where you get to see how much you’ve learnt, which by the way is an amazing feeling, by designing, implementing and shipping to production a clone of AirBnB and a Rails prototype of a project that you either pitch or join. What am I doing now? Well, I’m improving my skills by taking courses on Codecademy, reading books and creating my own projects.

I have an engineering degree and worked for 2 years as an aerospace engineer before attending Le Wagon bootcamp in Paris. As my interest for tech startups was growing, I wanted to know how the tools I used on a daily basis were made. I heard of Le Wagon through friends, podcasts, and professional relationships. I started to think about it seriously and attended meetups they were hosting, watched workshops and tutorials on Youtube. Those videos convinced me of their pedagogy and made me apply.

My experience at Le Wagon was a real life-changing experience. I'm now able to build a whole product from scratch, and most of all I met amazing people. The teachers are really professional, the program is progressive and covers all ranges of web development, and the platform on which you submit your daily exercise makes all the difference. The 9-weeks format is ideal to stay focus from the beginning to the end and make the best of it.

I'm currently working as a Product Manager and use my learnings on a daily basis. It helps me to understand and to be able to talk with developers and come up with better specifications.

If I were to do it again, I would not hesitate a second!

My name is Stephane, and I’ll be 52 years old in a week. I have done many things in my life so far, including rock climbing (climbing and teaching), playing in a few bands for a number of years (none which you would have heard of), doing live sound for concerts for the last 20 years, teaching Qìgong... For the past 7 years, I’ve been studying and training in Chinese Medecine and Martial Arts.

Last spring, I had to make a decision about what I wanted to do, money-wise, for the next 15 years of my life. And I remembered how much fun I had a year ago, when I was setting up my girlfriend’s e-commerce store and needed to learn a bit of HTML and CSS to do so. The magic of Code! Being able to create stuff just like that was fascinating.

So I looked into programs and schools and found Le Wagon. Before investing time and money into a boot camp, I needed to make sure I was going in the right direction, and so I did the Build a Website from Scratch course on Codecademy. One night, looking up from my code and realizing 6 hours had passed by without me noticing, I knew I had found my new career.

Meeting Guillaume and seeing how serious Le Wagon is about what they do convinced me. And I have to say, the boot camp has been one of the greatest, most intense, knowledge-crammed, frustrating, elating and most awesome experience in my life! Yes, it is tough. Yes, it is confronting and yes, you’ll get discouraged (especially at the end of week 3).

But if you keep the pace, if you do your flash cards every day, if you gear up for a marathon and not a sprint, you’ll get through it. And I’ll bet you’ll feel extremely proud of your achievements on demo day (once the presentations are over). You won’t believe what you’ll be able to create after such a short period of time.

Right now, I am working on my first (and quite imposing) freelance project: migrating an e-commerce store to a new platform, setting up an LMS class and grouping all of it into a Rails application. Lots of time spent on Google so far ;0).

I'm also currently a TA for batch #188 in Montreal, a great opportunity I am deeply grateful for. Happy coding!

Even before I finished my business degree, I knew I wanted to reorient myself. I had two professional experiences where after a few months I got bored and lost interest because I wasn’t learning anything new any more. My friends, who did Le Wagon, advised me to try the bootcamp. And what a good advice!

At school, I always had trouble staying focused during classes because the format was almost exclusively about listening. On the other hand, Le Wagon’s learning-by-doing pedagogy suited me perfectly! Every day started with a lesson of about an hour and a half where a teacher would present new concepts to the class. The rest of the day was then spent practicing on exercices with a « buddy » and the help of « teaching assistants », always ready to answer your questions about the exercises, talk about their experience or give advice for after the bootcamp…

When starting the bootcamp, I had no precise idea of what I wanted to do after Le Wagon. I thought I might try to find a job as a Product Owner to keep using what I had learnt during my business studies. But I developed a passion for debugging and I didn’t see myself stopping to code after the bootcamp. I am currently working as a teaching assistant at Le Wagon and will soon be starting an internship as a fullstack developer in a start-up founded by a team of Le Wagon alumni.

In short : don’t hesitate ! These 9 weeks spent learning to code were some of the most exciting and rewarding weeks of my life !

After 7 years as VP Sales in a startup, it was time for me to have fun with code.

I was clearly determined to become a web developer.

At start, I tried hard to learn by myself with online courses, but It was really hard to link all these elements. I was able to create simple algorithms, but how to store it ? how to create a simple interface for web users ? how to share an URL to target my users ? At start, Internet is a mess !...

My luck was, a good CTO friend told me he just hired a young ‘graduated’ developer from Le Wagon and it was a good surprise for him and for his team. That was such an argument so after passing tests, I started to learn how to code with Le Wagon during the winter 2018. I really loved this experience working with other students with the same will to succeed in coding. Program and teachers are well-honed and after 9 weeks I was the first surprised by all the things I was able to accomplish.

After Le Wagon I practiced as a freelancer for small projects and since septembre 2018, I’m now CTO in a young company and I am having a lot of fun coding every day..

Summer 2017 While finishing my Finance degree at Imperial College London, I came across a short tutorial video posted on LinkedIn by Le Wagon. I had never heard of this “coding bootcamp” before, but these few introductory minutes were sufficient for me to realize that I wanted to be part of the 9-week adventure this coding school was offering. And this is precisely what I did. From learning back-end to front-end, from working on my own to collaborating with my team members, from brainstorming on to pitching a product, Le Wagon offered me all the tools I needed to be able to thrive in the tech industry. The format of the program is very well-thought. The first weeks are spent learning the basics, the following ones are for knowledge enhancement, and the last 3 weeks are aimed at putting everything together and presenting the output of these intensive sessions. All this was done in a very relaxed atmosphere, where teachers are not only friendly but also very competent at what they teach, always making sure that you understand the concepts. On top of that, the incredible opportunity to join a community of over 3,000 alumni, spread across more than 25 countries, was also very appealing to me. Over a year has passed since my last day, but this has not prevented me from keeping in touch with many of the people I met there, either to ask coding questions or just to grab a coffee. All in all, Le Wagon gave me everything my previous degrees did not, namely, the opportunity to learn how to code, build and develop a project from scratch in a friendly environment, making coding a lovable art and not a painful experience like it was at school. I now work in the banking industry where I am able to use many tools I learnt during the bootcamp, enabling me to automate many tasks I perform on a daily basis.

 I was reading a lot of good things but when the program started I was simply amazed. I did not expect such an ideal organization of the learning process. The platform we used during the bootcamp is really great and helps you to focus and find all the information in one place.
The educational process is a perfect balance of lectures and practical assignments as well as individual and group work. Which means the lectures are kept short, about 1,5 hours in the morning, which leaves the rest of the day for hands-on exercises. Also, you work in a buddy-system and collaborate with your classmates a lot, most of the time you are solving the challenges individually and that’s where the learning is happening. Of course, always under the guidance and with the help of cool and talented teachers who are there for you whenever you need them.
The last 3 weeks of the course we worked in teams building a working prototype and definitely gathered all the necessary skills to work independently in the future. Simply impossible to obtain this kind of knowledge studying by yourself online.
My new professional life started from the first day of the bootcamp and now with the necessary tools, I can continue by myself. At the time writing this it’s been 2 months since I graduated and I’m still learning every day. I work on my own projects and also became a co-founder of a small web-company.
The bootcamp not only teaches development skills but also boosts your entrepreneurship. It was really challenging but above all encouraging and rewarding.
And two words about Bali – it’s a magical island and my new Love. I hope to return soon and not only once. 

The Wagon’s patient teachers show you how to think about programming and pass on the necessary skills to code a sleek, modern, and dynamic website. After a daily lesson explaining basic programming concepts, you work with other students on exercises that slowly stretch the breath of their understanding. Every day, ideas that initially seemed fuzzy and abstract become focused and concrete. By the end of the course, things that seemed impossibly complex at the beginning become rudimentary, and you are all the more curious to keep on learning.

I highly recommend this course to anyone willing to work hard and be challenged constantly.

Seriously, the only bootcamp that consistently ranks as amazing. The teachers, the people, the locations, are all world class. 

I was debating with a few American bootcamps, but this one has not only a core focus on programming competency, but entrepreneurship. There are literally people creating businesses right after the camp. 

Also, a place to meet some really interesting, cool people that are on a similar journey as well. I made friends with three of them specifically and I would definitely call them some of my best friends now. 

Easiest choice I ever made.

After graduating in 2013 from an audiovisual school, I worked on film sets and in radio as a sound-engineer. For a few years, it had been difficult to find a job, I then decided to change career. Coming from a technical background, and always eager to learn new things, I turned to coding. A friend of mine had told me about Le Wagon, highlighting the rapidity with which the program trains you to a new job. The bootcamp had an immediate impact on me, not only because of the rich and intense curriculum, the quality of the innovative teaching methods, the people you meet and the community you join. Le Wagon was one of the best experiences of my life. They met the crazy challenge to demystify coding and to turn people who never wrote a line of code into developers. 
I finished Le Wagon on a Friday and the following week, I found my first freelance job in web development for 2 months at Schoolab. I then got a full-time offer as a fullstack developer at Scalia, a tech startup launched by 2 Le Wagon alumni, incubated at StationF in Paris.
6 months ago, I would never have imagined going this far in such a short amount of time !

I have been a full-time musician and music producer for the past 7 years, and had always dreamed about learning how to code. A few months after discovering and attending Le Wagon, I am now developing projects as a freelance junior developer, and just started my own as en entrepreneur.

What happened in between was a 2-month journey of passionate discovery and study of code and web design, along with 42 (no pun intended) other very motivated students. Every passing day brought its lot of new encounters, A-HA moments, and fresh beers at the end.

What I particularly loved during my coding journey was the fact that no one got left behind at any point : teachers, teaching assistants, and most of all other students are here to ensure that everyone stays on track with everything. Le Wagon is, above all, a human experience like no other.

I am a business graduate and worked as a finance professional before entering Le Wagon. Tech-related work always interested me and I tried to pick up bits and pieces about coding, but never really had the perseverance and wholistic knowledge resources to really get started in tech. Building a website requires knowledge about so many programming languages, frameworks, and concepts that I was never really able to bring all the pieces together.

A friend of me told me about Le Wagon and the learning style seemed to be perfect for me. Le Wagon has an intranet with resources that help during and after the bootcamp. The bootcamp is built around this intranet and I learned how to solve technical issues with and without help from instructors.

After the bootcamp, I was able to build complete websites with all sorts of functionality, design features, and user interactivity. As I started a data science degree program after the bootcamp, I benefited from the software development skills that the bootcamp provides to students. Now, I am not only confident in web development, but I can also transfer these skills to other software development-related fields.

Our "batch" (that is the bunch of people that did the bootcamp with me at the same time in Berlin) was international to more than 50% and we spoke English 99% of the time. Everyone had a different background and almost everyone had a big career change coming up. After the bootcamp, I stayed in touch with many fellow students and we help each other looking for jobs and finding tech talent.

I can recommend this bootcamp to anyone who wants to learn web development in a very short time.

Le Wagon is the best strategic move of my life.

I've always wanted to become an entrepreneur. After my business school, I decided to learn how to code in order to be able to develop the first version of a website, in order to convince a business partner and to save money on the Minimum Valuable Product conception which is often costly whearas you don't know if the idea is valuable.

Le Wagon bootcamp was recommanded to me by a friend. It was the best 2 months of my life. First because it was the first time I was happy to go to school. It's a very unique experience to learn how to develop complex websites in two months with an incredible pedagogy. Secondly because I met some amazing people including... The business partner I was looking for.

I would without a doubt recommand le Wagon which was a very good investment for me !

I already had some skills in coding websites, I had already been a front-end developer at the beginning of my career, before moving to other paths. When I decided to go back to programming, I needed a serious update and I didn’t know where to start.
I finally chose to attend a bootcamp, as it was the most efficient way to be back on track. I picked Le Wagon after a very long benchmark, I checked that the program matched the expectations of a moving tech market, and I found their stack was clever, mixing powerful technologies with up-to-date best practices. I was not disappointed.
Their style is quite unique, they teach to code but they also teach to focus on the product. A website is an intricate complexity of technologies, user experience and design. There, you learn to deliver ambitious project that people can really use.
I am a freelance developer now, and happy to be so.

At the end of my studies, I tried to start my first start-up but I quickly noticed that understanding tech & code would be extremely useful.

In order to be autonomous for my future projects, I knew I needed to learn how to code, so I decided to join Le Wagon in Paris for a summer bootcamp.

During 2 months and supported by an amazing team, I acquired enough skills to build all my projects and, most importantly, I met many amazing people!

Le wagon is more than just a coding bootcamp, it’s also a great network!

I am currently a freelance full stack developper for at least several months, I also continue building startups, and to be honest I feel completely independent now.

For me, The Wagon has been a lifetime experience and I strongly recommend you to join! Take a look at the demodays on their website to see what you can build in just 2 months.