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The Iron Yard

Average Rating 4.42
173 Reviews 0 Courses

As of July 20, 2017, The Iron Yard is no longer accepting applications. The Iron Yard is a technology education company that offers software development courses both in person, and through corporate training programs across the US. The school offers full-time and part-time immersive programs in Web Development. Beginners can choose from Web Development Basics or Interactive Web Development courses. For career changers, The Iron Yard's flagship bootcamp is the Web Development Career Path, which takes students from zero to job ready. Graduates of the Web Development Career Path will be well-versed in front end and back end fundamentals, and participate in The Iron Yard's Career Support program. 

The Iron Yard team strives to create real, lasting change for people, companies, and communities by equipping a diverse workforce with 21st-century digital skills. Since it was launched in 2013, The Iron Yard has prepared thousands of students for careers in technology.

 

Reviews

173 alumni reviews of The Iron Yard

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    Manpreet "Mannie" Singh Verified via GitHub
    Student · Front End Engineering · July 2017

    You Won't Be a Developer, You Will Learn to Grow a Developer

    Let's begin by addressing a simple zen about front-end web development in this period of time: there is so much to learn and so little time. Which is why I am glad to have been a part of the Iron Yard's front-end engineering program, but we'll get to...

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    James Sewell Verified via LinkedIn
    Student · Front End Engineering · June 2017

    You will learn how to learn and grow as a developer

    Lectures are thorough and interactive, considerations are made for all skill levels to be engaged. Plenty of time to put theory into practice despite the fast pace. Assignments have basic requirements and creativity is encouraged. Plenty of opportunities to...
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    Travis Hubbad Verified via GitHub
    Lead Instructor · Web Development Career Path · June 2017

    Hype over substance - insider review from student turned instructor

    I graduated from the Iron Yard in 2014, and was hired as an instructor in the fall of 2016. My experience as a student was mostly positive, though most in my cohort did not have positive outcomes. Two years later, I started working as an instructor, and...

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    Liz Verified via GitHub
    Full Stack Web Developer · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    Totally worth it - if you put in the effort

    I recently completed the Front-End Engineering course at the St Pete/Tampa location and I cannot recommend The Iron Yard enough. Within 6 weeks of graduating I was employed, and honestly, in my opinion, that is the best way to judge a coding bootcamp. I...

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    Danielle Verified via LinkedIn
    Graduate · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    Reviewing Austin Campus

    The Iron Yard boot camp is a once in a life-time opportunity! The staff are incredible, the cirriculum challenging but undeniably valuable, and my overall experience was spectacular! It's not for the weak, if you're on the fence, GO FOR IT and don't look...

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    Gabe Verified via GitHub
    Front End Developer · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    Know What You're Getting Yourself Into

    The Iron Yard was one of the greatest learning experiences I have ever had, but also one of the most challenging. The Iron Yard does an amazing job creating a team that has a ton of knowledge about what they are teaching but also a team that really...

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    Peter Verified via GitHub
    Graduate · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    TIY: Not for the Faint of Heart

    As with anything, there's a range of experiences that people have had with TIY, and I can only speak to my own. That said, I had a wonderful experience at the Greenville campus--it was all that it promised to be and (dare I say?)...

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    Grayson Verified via GitHub
    Web Developer · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    Challenge of Lifetime

    My plan was to self-teach programming until I was able to get programming a job.  I spent about 6 months studying in the evenings and weekends.  I certainly learned alot this way, but eventually I felt I was hitting a wall.  I had heard of bootcamps...

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    Kelsey Verified via GitHub
    Graduate · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    brain bootcamp

    I just completed a three month intensive bootcamp at the Iron Yard Indianapolis for Front End Development and it was....too many words there's no way I can describe without a painful runon sentence. The first word I would use is hard. It was very...

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    Dave McKinney Verified via GitHub
    Jr. Developer · Back End Engineering · May 2017

    Drinking From a Fire Hose

    They warn you upfront, this isn't a leisurely-paced class. You won't be learning from 9-5 and then closing your computer for the day (usually). You have to stay late sometimes. You'll need to ask questions to your classmates and instructors. Constantly....

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    Maxwell Krause Verified via GitHub
    Software Developer · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    For the Motivated

    The bottom line here is if you are serious about getting a foothold in this industry you are going to need to know some of the basics of programming before you are hired.  Programming is hard, very hard.  The Iron Yard provides the base you need in...

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    Chad Buehrle Verified via GitHub
    Graduate · Front End Engineering · April 2017

    TIY Dallas

    While not for the undedicated, the immersive program offered by TIY Dallas was everything I needed to kick start my career into web development. The instructors in Dallas were great and so were the rest of the staff. They provided me with everything I...

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    Haley
    Graduate · Front End Engineering · June 2017

    Best Instructor and Staff I Could Have Asked For

    I cannot say enough about my front end development instructor, Eric at the Dallas campus. Not only is he very smart and a great instructor, but you can tell that he genuinly cares about his students and will do what it takes to help them learn. I'm not...

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    Tommy Huynh
    Data Analyst · June 2017

    Rewarding Experience

    The 12 week course to being a developer was a challenge, but a rewarding one. You learn to think differently, and enjoy the process of it. I learned a lot from my time at The Iron Yard and it helped start my career. 

    The TIY team is made up of...

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    Louise
    Software Developer Intern · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    TIY - Charlotte, FrontEnd Development (12 weeks)

    I am a mom who decided to make a career switch.  I loved web development, and really wanted to secure a career path that would allow me to support my family without question.  I spent a lot of time evaluating coding bootcamps based on cost, length of the...

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    Kyle
    Graduate · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    You Get Out What You Put In

    I attended the Front End program in Charlotte in early 2016. It turned out being one of the best decisions I've made in my life, and that's not being hyperbolic. I spent about 70-80 hours/week with the program in the three months I was there. It was...

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    Bucky Maler
    Software Develop · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    Application vs. Abstraction

    I attended The Iron Yard a couple months after receiving my computer science degree. My programming skills were solid, but how to apply them was a mystery. Throughout my degree I wrote a fair bit of code, however, the assignments were incredibly...

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    Caleb
    Designer (Front-End / Web) · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    Front-End Engineering - working as a Designer

    The Iron Yard in Tampa/St. Pete is lead by some amazing people. The front-end instructor that I studied with, Jason Perry, is extremely well respected in the Javascript AND Ruby communities. That would be enough but he also proved to be an amazing person...

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    Harrison
    Front End Developer · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    Tough but beyond worth it

    The Iron Yard was one of the best decisions I ever made. But it was also one of the hardest things I've ever done. It is rigorous and grueling and you can get a little defeated sometimes, but at the end of the day it pays off. I couldn't have asked for a...

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    Rebekah
    Student · Front End Engineering · May 2017

    2x Graduate - Great Experience

    The managment, teaching and mentorship this program provides is supberb. I have enjoyed doing both the Java & Javascript courses. Please consider attending and you will never look back. This experience was amazing and I would hope you would go for...

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Courses

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News

Recent The Iron Yard News

Imogen Crispe
Imogen Crispe
Updated June 08, 2016
[As of October 13, 2017, The Iron Yard will no longer be operating.] After working with the state of Florida to get licensed as a post-secondary education institution, The Iron Yard is ready to hit the ground running, teaching dozens of future programmers in Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg. We spoke to campus director Toni Aliberti about why licensing is so important for coding bootcamps, the...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated November 06, 2024
Since the first bootcamp acquisition in June 2014, we’ve seen several coding bootcamps get acquired by a range of companies from for-profit education companies (Capella Education), to co-working companies (WeWork), and other coding bootcamps (Thinkful + Bloc)! With rapid market growth in the bootcamp industry, for-profit education companies are taking note. These acquisitions and consolidatio...
Imogen Crispe
Imogen Crispe
Updated May 12, 2016
[As of October 13, 2017, The Iron Yard will no longer be operating.]  The Iron Yard campus has been thriving in Austin for over a year, graduating dozens of students who go on to find exciting jobs at Austin companies. But we had questions about what makes the Texas coding bootcamp’s campus culture special. So we spoke with The Iron Yard Austin campus director Karly Borden about their id...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated March 29, 2016
After working in the nonprofit education sector, Cori Fowler knew how vital STEM and specifically coding could be to young people. Her passion for STEM education inspired her to learn to code at The Iron Yard coding bootcamp in Atlanta, Georgia. Now she is a front end developer at Matrix Resources where she continues to grow and is even working alongside other bootcamp graduates! Cori tells...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated February 26, 2016
Jonny Warren was an artist and custom picture framer before he decided to take the Front-End Engineering course at The Iron Yard in Atlanta in 2015. Now he is combining his artistic and programming skills in his job as a UI developer creating mockups and implementing them into development at Thingtech. Jonny spoke to us about his experience at The Iron Yard, his favorite projects, and hi...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated January 18, 2018
The January News Roundup is your monthly news digest full of the most interesting articles in the coding bootcamp space. If you're part of the bootcamp world or just want to stay current on coding bootcamps, then check out everything you may have missed in January! Let's Recap January... Olivia Vanni from BostInno argues that Computer Science degrees in 2016 don't really...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated December 28, 2020
  Are you planning on attending a coding bootcamp? Deciding between two bootcamps? We’ve scoured the net for alumni blogs from top coding bootcamps including Fullstack Academy, Dev Bootcamp, The Iron Yard,  Coding Dojo, MakerSquare and Hack Reactor. From a CS major to an event planner, these bootcamp graduates give you a snapshot of what makes each coding school and experience uniq...
Harry Hantel
Harry Hantel
Updated December 04, 2024
Welcome to the June News Roundup, your monthly news digest full of the most interesting articles and announcements in the bootcamp space. Do you want something considered for the next News Roundup? Submit announcements of new courses, scholarships, or open jobs at your school!   Coding Bootcamps In The Headlines Coding Bootcamp Enrollment Soars! (via Bloomberg) Skill Dis...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated June 12, 2015
[As of October 13, 2017, The Iron Yard will no longer be operating.] Whether you're thinking about applying to an Iron Yard bootcamp or want to learn front-end programming on your own schedule, the Self-Paced Front-End Engineering course from Iron Yard + Thinkful may be your answer. In this Live Q&A, we'll chat with Eric Dodds of Iron Yard an...
Harry Hantel
Harry Hantel
Updated October 08, 2019
Welcome to the March News Roundup, your monthly news digest full of the most interesting articles and announcements in the bootcamp space. Want your bootcamp's news to be included in the next News Roundup? Submit announcements of new courses, scholarships, or open jobs at your school!   Bootcamps in the News Tuition at We...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated February 20, 2014
Andy Flack is a classic zero-to-sixty student...with a twist. When Andy started at Iron Yard in 2013, he was a retired coffee mule (you read that correctly) with absolutely no technical experience. Within two months of graduation, he had a full-time job as a Front-End Developer at ChartSpan, and he's not looking back. We talk with Andy about how Iron Yard helped him succee...
Liz Eggleston
Liz Eggleston
Updated July 27, 2017
  As of October 13, 2017, The Iron Yard will no longer be operating.
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Is The Iron Yard worth it?

The Iron Yard hasn't shared alumni outcomes yet, but one way to determine if a bootcamp is worth it is by reading alumni reviews. 173 The Iron Yard alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed The Iron Yard on Course Report - you should start there!

How much does The Iron Yard cost?

The average bootcamp costs $14,142, but The Iron Yard does not share pricing information. You can read a cost-comparison of other popular bootcamps!

What courses does The Iron Yard teach?

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Where does The Iron Yard have campuses?

The Iron Yard has not shared campus location details yet.

Does The Iron Yard offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?

Right now, it doesn't look like The Iron Yard offers scholarships or accepts the GI Bill. We're always adding to the list of schools that do offer Exclusive Course Report Scholarships and a list of the bootcamps that accept the GI Bill.

Is The Iron Yard legit?

We let alumni answer that question. 173 The Iron Yard alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed The Iron Yard and rate their overall experience a 4.42 out of 5.

Can I read The Iron Yard reviews?

You can read 173 reviews of The Iron Yard on Course Report! The Iron Yard alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed The Iron Yard and rate their overall experience a 4.42 out of 5.

Is The Iron Yard accredited?

While bootcamps must be approved to operate, accreditation is relatively rare. The Iron Yard doesn't yet share information about their accreditation status.

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