Full Stack Developer

Curriculum is teaching yourself and paying them to help you sometimes. They set a date for you to complete badges and learn coding languages, but It takes a lot longer to actually learn these things so you're just being set up to fail regretfully. After your target date passes you will pay by month. They upped the price a significant amount in the middle of my studies, so I didn't have much of a choice but to swallow it and continue. Most of the meetings I scheduled to get a badge were cancelled sometimes 5 minutes before due to someone "not feeling well", which wasted my time and kept me from progressing and in turn, costed me more money. I was promised to be connected to a job or internship with their many partner companies, but they just shared a database of companies to me so I could go look for job openings and apply myself. I got connected to a hiring manager, but after two cancelled meetings I got an email saying positions were already filled and he'd let me know if something came up. I made connections on my own, got an interview and realized that I didn't know much when I got there. I did learn a lot in the program though. Progressing through the pathways is fun and having a project that meets requirements feels rewarding. But all things considered, I would rather have just followed a prescribed pathway online, gone the self taught route instead, and have built projects on my own time that I like.

In my experience as a student in Codex Academy, I have found very helpful having someone I can ask for help every day, and that's what I've had in my mentoring sessions, also being able to have different schedules for the sessions has been really important. Now the Academy has also implemented Q&A sessions which allow us to have extra time with a different mentor every day, in this session we don't just interact with the mentor but we can also interact with other students, that have different difficulties in their everyday coding. When developing projects, it has been essential to have a mentor that can guide you and that can get you out a problem if you are stuck. Having a well-structured path and knowing what are the most important things to learn in each topic has been essential, because every topic has so much information that if you don't have a structured path you can get lost so easily. Having the possibility to have evaluations with human evaluators, has been great learning experience, because you can show your true understanding of a topic and since you are being evaluated by another person there is no opportunity for chance, you really need to be sure of what you have learned. Having the support of everybody in Codex Academy has been great, support not only of the mentors but of the whole Codex team, which are constantly involved in our progress. More and more students are getting involved in Codex Academy which makes it a great community for learning a growth. And another plus for those who need mentors that also speak Spanish you can find them here too !!.