Web Developer Bootcamp

The Awesome Inc. bootcamp helped me completely change my career direction.  The instructors are extremely helpful and give you all of the tools you need to get starts with a career in tech.  Not only that but the entire Awesome Inc. team is behind you and helping you towards your goals.  Overall amazing experience! 

I completed the Summer 2023 bootcamp. Very challenging course, but for someone who had zero prior experience in coding or anything tech related I look back and can barely believe how much I was able to learn in 14 weeks. The instructors were top notch and the awesome inc community are all really supportive and helpful! Nothing but good things to say about this course, well worth it! 

I attended the Summer 2023 remote bootcamp at Awesome inc. The experience has helped build a good foundation for my journey as a software developer, and taught me "how to learn" in a very short amount of time. The instructors were responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful. On several occasions they went above and beyond with the giving of their time (even after hours) to help us in our learning. I appreciate their commitment to our success, and I would recommend this programming bootcamp to anyone looking to get into the software development field.  

The experience I had in the boot camp was extremely time consuming and difficult, but overall it was a great learning experience. Although it might be hard task to handle especially with some of the time constraints, they have very helpful and well educated teachers there to help guide you along and point you in the right direction that you need to be heading to easily tackle whatever challenge comes your way. The way at which the boot camp moved was very fast, but like stated before the teachers are there to help you understand things that you cannot seem to wrap your head around, as well as they provide plenty of links and documents to look at to further look into the subjects you are learning at the time. Overall I had a amazing experience in the boot camp and learned a lot throughout the whole thing!

This program is designed to teach you the foundations of web development across various languages, as well as equip you with the necessary skills and resources needed to succeed in this field. The instructors are knowledgeable and helpful, the career coach works hard to help you get a job, and the program culture/community is top-notch. I just graduated from the program and am so thankful I took the leap. Awesome Inc knows what they are doing, and does everything they can to help you succeed in and out of their bootcamp. If you are at all interested in the career transition, I would highly recommend this bootcamp to anyone in the region.

I just completed the bootcamp 2 months ago and already have a new job paying double what I made before. This Bootcamp was a blessing and a great experience. Everyone is very helpful and very nice to work with. 100/10 would do it again!

I came to Awesome, Inc. with barely any prior coding knowledge. I was surprised to find out how hard the bootcamp was! I was definitely over my head. We were learning, really learning, from 8am until 5pm every day for the entire bootcamp. I learned so much more than coding. We also learned about design, agile development, and the job market for web development in our area. We had lunch and learns with real web developers and got to pick their brains about whatever we wanted. My classmates were an entire other source of valuable information on literally anything I wanted to know. I am 100% that I have never absorbed as much information in such a short period of time ever in my life, and doubt I ever will again. When it was all over I felt such a sense of accomplishment, and that was just the start! They helped me get my dream job so quickly! My employer is so impressed with the knowledge that I have, and now I am in a place that I had started to think I would never get to. I highly recommend this bootcamp. It is changing lives in my city, and I'm so happy to have been part of it!

My experience with Awesome Inc U was exceptional. The curriculum is spread evenly across a couple months, building on previous weeks. Knowledge is condensed but it gives you enough knowledge to learn other languages/frameworks. I enjoyed my time with the instructors and other students. Fellow students came from all backgrounds, many did not a single line of syntax before starting. Many have found employment among the tech industry.  

My time with Awesome Inc was no less than STELLAR!  It was a test of will, patience, grit, and mental fortitude.  But the knowledge and the connections are well worth every second spent there.  The team is amazing from the top down! They truly hold to the core values of the company.  I would recommend anyone to go through Awesome Inc's Full Stack Bootcamp!

Awesome Inc doesn't just teach you how to code and get a job (though they do that very well), they teach you how to learn and reach your full potential. They show you how to teach yourself and in doing so open up a world of possibilities. This is so much more than a coding bootcamp, this is a change your life for the better bootcamp. You also become part of the Awesome Inc network which is so valuable in central KY. Cannot recommend this program enough.

The Web Developer Bootcamp is a 3 month, full-time training program for aspiring web developers. The curriculum was designed in collaboration with local technology employers to prepare individuals to dive into a career in web development. The intense training program is designed to take students from the basics of programming to competency in building modern web applications. It includes over 500 hours of hands-on-training, gaining experience while building 10+ software projects in an Agile environment, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Laravel, MySQL, React, Google Cloud, GitHub, and more.

Awesome Inc U Web Development Bootcamp was everything that was promised, and more than I had imagined. While I didn't go into the experience thinking it would be easy, I couldn't have imagined the rigors of taking on such an endeavor. It was well worth the time and financial investment. More importantly, it helped me learn in a way that was conducive to being prepared for the position I took in Quality Assurance/Development with a local tech company in Lexington. Could I have continued teaching myself in my free time and eventually gotten to a position of enough preparedness to begin a career in development? I believe so, but the bootcamp got me to that point much faster. It did so not only by accelerating my learning, pushing my limits, and getting me out of my comfort zone, but it did so by putting me in a more real-world scenario through encouragement of teamwork as well as providing guidance in obtaining my first position in tech. The instructors were very knowledgeable and capable in their positions. They provided guidance when necessary but encouraged self-reliance over taking the easy way out. All that to say I am very satisfied with the experience I had at Awesome Inc and would recommend anyone looking to pursue a career in tech to their bootcamp.

I went through the Awesome Inc U coding boot camp in the fall of 2016.  It was the first camp that they ran.

I had an excellent experience.  The curriculum at that time was Django + AngularJS.   It was 8 am - 5 pm every day.  I tended to stay until 7+ every night and then do 8+ hours on the weekend.  My feeling was that I was paying a lot and needed to get a lot out of it.  

I was hired immediately out of the camp so I didn't have any issues with job placement.  Then or since.  I worked with that company for 2 years and then was offered a higher position and moved to my current job.  I've also had a number of ongoing freelance jobs over the years.  

I came out of the camp with a lot of holes in my knowledge.  You should expect that.  You can't learn all of CS in a few months.  Or a few decades.  But the camp gave me a firm enough grounding in the basics that I've been able to flourish on the job.  And honestly, comparing my class with CS grads right out of college, I've been impressed with how functional our abilities were.  

Awesome Inc is a great company.  They are earnest in their desire for everyone to do well.  They approached everything from that direction - they clearly understand that if the students do well then their company will do well.  They are very engaged. 

This was a good career change for me.  Highly recommended. 

Overall Experience

Awesome Inc's Bootcamp was an intensive, extremly challenging and rewarding program for me. I was able to go from no coding experience to having a job in the three month course.

Even though I look back and realize how little I actually knew after the completion of the bootcamp in terms of real world knowledge, the base/foundation of knowledge couldn't have prepared me any better. Learning how to figure out problems in the coding world is likely the best thing I took away from the course. It was nice to work in an environment, too, that was like real world work experience (8 to 5 working on projects). 

Instructors

We had two instructors from two completely different backgrounds, and for me, both were extremely helpful and did a great job with my learning style. While I don't think a few of the others in my class related to their teaching style, I enjoyed it very much.

Cirriculum

Not sure what to expect for Cirriculum but getting experience with one frontend language and framework, as well as another language and framework for the backend was very typical of the work I do these days. Very relatable to the work I'm still doing, even if I haven't actually use the frameworks we learned during the course. The projects were great and also transferred well over to the things I'm still doing.

Job Assistance

In theory the job assistance was set up for you to succeed, but I can't really speak to that. I was hired on the last day of class by APAX SOFTWARE a sister company of Awesome Inc U.

Before the bootcamp I worked two part-time jobs which offered little chance to be creative or solve real problems. Since graduating I have been able to work as a full-stack web developer where every day offers a new and interesting problems to solve, as well as new skills to learn. What we learned in the bootcamp was only the beginning, but it is a solid foundation.

Overall:

Awesome Inc. is just a great place to spend 3 months, regardless of what brought you here. there are so many great people working out of this space, just being a part of the community fir a short time is a benefit to the program.

During the bootcamp I was able to: learn the necessary skills to be hired; gain a confidence for learning in general (even for subjects outside of development); make friends, and gain mentors.

Instructors:

During our bootcamp our instructor was great. She had over a decade of experience in the field which gave her the ability to offer realistic advice to us when we ere stuck on a problem. Her skills as an instuctor were weaker at the beginning but she was very dedicated to becoming a better instructor and most of us could tell the difference in her teaching by the end of the semester. The assistant instructor had gone through a bootcamp himself and was very relatable. He was able to easily empathize with our frustrations and roadblocks.

Curriculum:

The course was structured in such a way that each week built upon the last. This meant that what we learned week 2 or 3, we continued to use and practice through to week 12. They did a great job of emphasizing core skills and not letting us get off into the weeds of web dev tools and languages.

Just to note, some of the frameworks and languages we learned, I have not used since; but exerting the effort to learn these were intrumental in growing my aptitude for taking on new things and working well with unknowns.

Job Assistance:

I am not able to really rank job assistance as I was hired by the sister company to Awesome Inc. (APAX Software). I will say that, before I was hired, I interviewed and search for jobs heavily. YOU ONLY GET OUT OF THIS WHAT YOU PUT IN. Awesome Inc. is truly invested in their graduates getting hired and committed to keeping you pointed in the right direction but they do not get the job for you. You have to put in the work during AND after the bootcamp to make this happen.

If you are contemplating a career change to web developer, look no further. Awesome Inc U's Web Developer Bootcamp will give you the skills you need to land that web dev job. I was hired before bootcamp was even over!

And by "skills" I mean the really important ones: learning how to learn... where to find help when you are lost... how to know if your code is "finished"... There are a million programming languages, frameworks, and technologies, but these skills will transfer to any web developer job (and many non-web-developer jobs!).

Classroom instruction began with a period of coding "warm-ups" where we tried to solve a problem in code. But the bulk of the day was spent in "lecture" —which should more properly have been called "playground" — where the instructor led us through the topic for the day. Instead of dispensing information during lecture, the instructor modeled the real web dev workflow. "Can we get this text centered? Let's try this..." "Hmm... that broke. Let's see if Google can help us."

We did, of course, start with the basics: HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Then we explored the frontend framework VueJS. On the backend, we learned SQL, PostreSQL, and Laravel (with PHP). Bootcamp culminated in a final project that brought all these technologies together.

But perhaps the most valuable part of my experience was the friendships and connections made. I had been a teacher for 10 years before deciding to switch to web development, and so I didn't know very many web developers or technology companies. I had a very small network going in. But now I have a small group of good friends (the other bootcampers), several mentors (the instructors and administrators)—and I got to meet numerous community business leaders who gave presentations throughout the bootcamp. I will certainly lean on this expanded network as I dive into my new job and beyond!

tldr: Worth every penny just for the friends and connections made.

Fast paced, wery challenging, very fun. Must be commited to the entire 12 weeks to keep up.