Le Wagon

I was working as a project manager in tech before I decided to learn to code. I find coding an incredibly powerful and creative way to solve problem. I tried to do a couple of online courses, but it never stick to me. So I decided to take the leap, commit all of my energy to doing the in person course. Le Wagon was the perfect choice - not only because of the incredibly curated curriculum but also because of the amazing community and support that continues even after the bootcamp.

My greatest takeaway was that I learnt to absorb great amount of information. At first it all seems daunting but later it all falls into place. My advice for anyone joining is to try to prep as much as you can before the course, commit to it and don't give up, it will all pay off. '

Soon after finishing the bootcamp, I stared working as a full stack developer, using React and Node JS.

I joined Le Wagon Bootcamp with a rather precise product idea that I wanted to develop, without knowing how to execute it. I left Le Wagon with an Minimum Viable Product (MVP) properly developed with my team thanks to the help of the outstanding staff.
I kept on developing the app for a while with my co-founder that I met during the bootcamp, but eventually our paths separated and I decided to keep working on the product that will be released soon.
If you want to create a web product and that you don’t have any concrete knowledge about code, Le Wagon is a good first step to master this technical environment.

I’ve been interested in programming for a few years now, starting with a little bit of Javascript that I learned on Internet. Then when it was time for me to go to university I decided to learn physics because I knew that I would find a way to learn to code elsewhere at some point in my life.
That’s when, a year later, I’ve heard about Le Wagon and decided to go for it! And that’s how I took one of the best decisions of my life! To go to Montreal and do this two months INTENSIVE bootcamp was for me a life-changing experience.  I insist on intensive because it really is! You’ll breathe, eat and dream (literally) of code! But thanks to an incredible team and teachers, everything will be fine and you’ll enjoy it!
This experience at Le Wagon Montreal, of course, taught me to code but also about team work, and showed me how hard I was able to work on a project if I was passionate about it. It also helped me develop the ability to ask for help! (Because let’s face it you’ll need it at some point, which is fine because the team and your buddies are there for you!)
Now I can’t wait to do more and more projects! Your only limitation after Le Wagon will be your own determination and motivation to learn more!

Le wagon a été pour moi une expérience incroyable.
J’ai découvert des outils technologiques et j’ai appris à les maitriser. Ça été aussi une véritable expérience humaine.
Ces 9 semaines sont passées à une vitesse folle et me voilà aujourd’hui armé de compétences techniques dépassant mes attentes.
Au Wagon on n’apprend pas qu’a coder, on apprend également à apprendre, à tel point qu’il m’a fallu à peine 2 semaines pour apprendre un autre langage complémentaire (Python) et il m’a fallu autant de temps pour décrocher un gros contrat avec un client asiatique.
Les professeurs sont tout simplement géniaux : pédagogues et présents. Ils ont été un élément clé aux nouvelles compétences techniques que je suis fier de posséder aujourd’hui ainsi qu’à l’obtention de mon Certificat Niveau 2 (RNCP).
Pour réussir au Wagon, il faut simplement y croire et s’accrocher. On se rend alors très vite compte de notre progression quotidienne. Ça va vite, même très vite, mais avec simplement un peu de rigueur, vous aurez rapidement l’impression d’avoir appris autant en 2 mois qu’en 2 ans !

I've always been curious about coding but I never pictured myself as a developer. I always thought that it was some sort of world that was reserved only for the skilled and extra-smart people. One day, after talking to a friend who had done the bootcamp I visited the Le Wagon's webpage, I realised that my ideas were far from the truth and learning to code was something that I could actually do. Now, after finishing the program, I realise that I enjoy coding more than I initially thought and there's a whole new world ahead of me. Doing Le Wagon's coding bootcamp was for sure one of the best investments in my personal and professional growth. All the content is carefully organised in a way that at the end, we end up being able to build a web application from scratch, and only in 9 weeks!! The teachers were all top-level! Every single one of them, covering all the topics, they were well-versed on the subject-matter and that was very reassuring. The learning materials were also designed in a way that are so cool to use and revisit whenever we need. Even today, when I'm developing some new project, I go to Le Wagon's Kitt platform to review some topic or video lecture. Having access for life to this knowledge repository is worth the investment! The management staff was also extremely professional and always caring for our needs. They made constant efforts to make sure that everybody was keeping up with the pace and always made us feel comfortable and at home. For me it's still a joy to go the school for a visit, hangout with new friends or to do some work from there. Also it's worth mentioning the worldwide community that I'm part of now. Le Wagon's online network allows us to share whatever issue with our fellow Wagoners that are across the world and that's also very comforting. I now feel that I'm part of a new family :) In short, learning to code at Le Wagon really changed my life for the better and I really recommend to anyone who's willing to make the plunge into this exciting world.

After more than 10 years as an operational and financial director, I recently decided to launch my own company. Quickly, I felt frustrated by my lack of technical knowledge and necessity to rely on others to do even a simple landing page, and thus decided to join Le Wagon.
With no prior technical knowledge, and Uni being a vague memory for me, I have to admit that those 9 weeks were pretty intense. But between the amazing teachers and the mutual support between students, it felt like one of the most vibrant experience of my life. More than skills, Le Wagon teach you to be product oriented and above else, made me part of a family of vibrant professionals, always looking after each other.
Thanks to Le Wagon, I’m now finalizing my landing page and will soon launch an MVP of my product, myntee.io.

You do not learn to read and write to become a writer, you learn it to be able to communicate and actively participate to your environment. Le Wagon allows you to do both: it not only gives you the skills to become a Junior Developper, it also increases your product and entrepreneurial mindset to be able to thrill in a potential future career in the Tech field. 

Prior to le Wagon, as a brand new graduate in a traditional Economics & Management bachelor, I had no clue I could be up to learning how to code. We all have this cliché in mind that it is a skill reserved to ‘engineers’. The only skill required to master web development is a true and determined motivation. 

I first attended Le Wagon to gain independence and be able to create web products from scratch. I achieved my goals following their intense but extremely qualitative bootcamp program, surrounded by an amazing teaching team. What made my experience so unique is that they put as much efforts in teaching students how to code than animating and reinforcing the community. Attending a Le Wagon bootcamp also means accessing several entrepreneurial talks from inspiring startups, attending workshops, have fun during afterworks, and above everything meeting incredible people with whom you will build a very strong team spirit until final projets.

Le Wagon is a life changing experience and now that the bootcamp is finished I am starting my Master in Management with full-stack Developper skills, a strong and efficient product mindset, access to professional opportunities through Le Wagon active community, thousands of new ideas and more importantly, the opportunity of evolving in a career I will have chosen. I 10,000% recommended it.

Doing the LeWagon bootcamp in São Paulo, as a student of the batch #296, was one the best decisions i've made to my future and i can give lots of arguments of why. LeWagon focuses on teaching students ruby, rails and JavaScript, using a very unique dynamic called the buddy system, where you work each day with a different partner and learn skills of coding while improving areas like communication. You still have very good teachers, who are responsible for the classes at the start of the day and can help you and your partners with some problems that may come up during the day. The most important part for me is the amount of exercises that you have to learn during everyday of the bootcamp, using the kitt challenges. In conclusion, The LeWagon bootcamp offers a very good course for your curriculum, where you can learn more about coding and starting your carrer an dev.

After 15 years in audit and corporate finance in a few countries, I was looking for a change and new challenges. One of my relationship suggested I should learn coding and introduced me to Le Wagon. I immediately liked the program and registered for the summer batch in Paris. As most of the participants, I was a bit skeptical when we started the first week that we could achieve a real VMP at the end of the bootcamp as they told us. The result was beyond my expectation. Not only we managed to do it in the last two weeks, but the adventure was just starting. We decided with one of my batch member to continue to develop our product and to create our on own company which we are currently doing now. A real thanks to Le Wagon and its team (teacher, assistants, staff,…) and to all our batch for this 9 weeks. The organization, tools and community we met were above expectation for me. I definitely recommend the experience for anybody who wants a change in his/her professional life.

Recently I became an ex-management consultant and a newly Le Wagon alumni @Lisbon #tooproud. I decided to take the leap once I grew interested in working in a tech environment while attending many client's meetings where digital and IT pain points and challenges were becoming the center of the discussion. I wanted to join the challenge. Soon I found Le Wagon to be #1 coding bootcamp in Europe, web development centered, hands-on and ambitious program. That was why I chose this team, and I chose well! The community is super engaging and the intense 9 weeks at Le Wagon were sure 1 out of the 5 top experiences of my life. Plenty of good-hearted people, eager to learn and be better. 
I achieved my personal objective: I learned a good crazy language to start with (Ruby!), OOP, MVC, and my beloved Front-End, as well as how to tackle product development from the very start to the very end. 
My advice: join our community :)

I wanted a carrier change, so at the beginning of this year I started looking for a bootcamp that could allow me to study and work at the same time! When I finally found Le Wagon I couldn't believe to my eyes, cause their part time programme was perfect to me cause I didn't have to leave my job in order to attend classes! Also the teachers were all amazing! They helped me a lot to understand difficult things that I wouldn't never imagine to learn! Now I can code and this is thanks to all le wagon team! Definitely one of the best experience of my life! Very satisfying! 

With so many bootcamps out there I was torn on which one I should I apply for. After some extensive research I ended up choosing Le Wagon. I completed Bootcamp 273 in Bali back in August 2019 and couldn't be happier with my choice. 

The full stack course provides you a great grounding in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL and Ruby. It's a challenging curriculum and there were times when I felt like I was simply not progressing or struggling to understand a particular concept, but Guido and the rest of the team were always on hand to help. Besides being challenging the course is also incredibly fun and rewarding. Having an idea in your head and bringing it to life with code is just an amazing experience.

At the end of the bootcamp I couldn't believe what our team had managed to achieve. We developed a fully functioning app that served as a platform to match recycling banks with recycling collectors, the idea was to help reduce the amount single use plastic a prevalent problem in South East Asia and I was so proud with what the team and I managed to build. 

If you're on the fence on whether to go on the Le Wagon, my advice would be to just go for it. You will not be disappointed, it's an incredible life changing experience!!

January 2019: I was preparing to quit my job after a 10-year experience in the same company to create one on my own.  Launching my start-up was an exciting challenge. But how to start?  My project (to promote sports in the workplace) was based on a web platform.  My issue? I did not know anything about coding websites or applications. So, I decided to look for a CTO as a co-founding partner.    I shaked my network, and the network of my network to talk with people who had created tech companies or who were working with developers.  After some interviews, all were unanimous: it's almost impossible to find an available CTO. As the demand is way higher than the offer = it's a very expensive knowledge". But ONE word came back three times: "Le Wagon: change your life learn to code".   This is how I started two months later my incredible 3-month experience at Le Wagon. 9 (very very) intensive weeks to learn a new language. To start a new life. To challenge my learning abilities, more than durung the 10 years I spent developing field agility.   Why Le Wagon is a successfull coding bootcamp?    Thanks to its pedagogy based on :     1- boisterous rhythm whose strength is that theorical classes(25% daily) are wisely mixed up with practical exercises (75%). When your brain is utterly fried, you keep on underpinning fundamentals notions.     2- People's diversity and background wealth : everyday, thanks to a "random wheel" they "forced" you to work with a different, new, buddy. Smart move. Besides cultivating a supportive and friendly athmosphere, we created a "clan" strong feelings.     3- Everybody is dedicated to your success. Every teacher, teacher assistant or staff member is solicitous for one reason: they were in your shoes a few months or weeks before.     To sum up, Le wagon is a professional, human and crazy experience you have to live. 

Le Wagon has been by far the most intensive and efficient training I ever followed. Within 9 weeks, I was able to create 2 websites with 2 other members as we learnt more than the basic knowledge of programming in modern languages (html, CSS, js, ruby on rails, SQL). Now, as a growth marketer I can use those skillset to create basic websites, to expand my usage of CMS and to build automation tools. To conclude, I highly recommend le wagon not only for wannabee programmers, but also to entrepreneurs, people working closely with tech team and growth marketers/hackers. Feel free to contact me for more insights.

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.