Learn CSS at These 462 CSS Bootcamps

I worked in marketing for about 3 years and wanted a change and to get more in into the digital realm of marketing. Not to mention I did not take a good holiday in a few years and was looking for places to escape for a bit and found that I can learn web development and live in a wicked place in Mexico for a few months. 

The program helped me find a jr level web development position. 

When I signed up for Inventive Academy about two months ago there were no reviews on Course Report because the bootcamp had only just been registered (under its new name: Inventive Academy rather than Inventive University) with the Texas Workforce Commission. I am currently part of the first cohort of 2019 and we just finished week 8, which is the first week of JavaScript.

I wanted to write a review specifically for anyone who is in the position I was in before I signed up--thinking that the bootcamp looked incredible on paper but a bit confused by the lack of reviews. I can assure you that the bootcamp is as incredible as it appears-- currently 5 hours in-class, 4 days a week, 26 weeks and really they are very generous about helping you during non-class hours, either answering questions promptly online or even allowing you to stop by their offices to hang out. Inventive is also a consulting company, so during the day they are there working as professional developers. This means that there is no risk of getting an inexperienced instructor for the course... Andy and Miguel know their stuff and are both very kind.

I suppose it's hard to know if you are fully satisfied with your bootcamp until you land your first job, but so far Inventive Academy has me feeling very confident and vindicated in my decision to attend. To put it in perspective, by the end of the first week you can reproduce the layout of an actual (albeit simple) website using HTML and CSS and by the end of week seven you feel pretty confident that you could replicate just about any web layout that you come across. And there are still nineteen weeks to go at that point!

Sometimes they can throw you pretty abruptly into some pretty complex problems, so you do have to learn how to teach yourself (being able to teach yourself is a necessary skill in the field of coding with its rapidly-changing technologies). But the teachers and TA's are always sitting right there next to you ready to answer any question. Classes are a lot of fun, and it's probably not a bad thing that they are sometimes very challenging.

I recommend Inventive Academy without reservation.

I have taken two classes at Interface Web School so far - Foundations and Java. I am starting my third class with them, WordPress, on August 7. I have really enjoyed my time at Interface. The instructors, Nick and Kent, were great. I learned a lot from them. Nick ran the Foundations course, which teaches HTML, CSS, and jQuery, with a bit of Bootstrap (although Nick doesn't like that - he prefers coding in pure CSS). We did several projects, including one where we animate flipping a card over. I know it doesn't sound like much, but I have since used it in sites I am working on to create a spinning effect. We did not have one big project in that class, just some weekly projects. In Java, however, we did have one big class project. We made an online UNO game (the card game, that is). It works great! We finished the main work on it during class, but we still have some things we want to add, so we all agreed to meet on Sundays after the class was finished to add those things. One thing that the Java class had that online courses do not have is the back end. When you're making Java applications for a server, you have to add extra code such as POJOs to the package in order for it to work. We also had to learn a bit of SQL to get our data working for the game. I highly recommend Interface!

Disclosure: I did not have to pay out of pocket for Interface. A state grant has paid for my classes. I don't think paying for it would change my opinion though.

It is more than a regular Bootcamp, it's a tech community.

I have completed the whole program and I also got a place in a reputed startup with a good salary.
My overall experience was amazing mentors and mentees were very helpful and friendly, we had fun solving problems together and had amazing hackathons, played table tennis, football, trekking, parties like encore, it was more than what you can expect out of Bootcamp and I think the environment is very suitable for doing and learning web development I think the time spent there is worth more than what you will get as end result, believe me, it’s been only a few days and I already miss how much fun I had when I was learning there and maybe even in that time you will fall in love with the process and come out as really good developer.
 

The way we learn here is in a way that you can quickly cover up other languages, frameworks, and technologies within six months.
Even though the course has MERN stack, I currently work with a firm with Ruby on Rails in the backend.

I highly recommend AltCampus to aspiring developers who are willing to put in the effort.

I came in with a little knowledge of what software engineering was and now I know exaclty what it is!

I recieved quality instruction that challenged me in such a way mentally that I hadn't been accustomed to for a long time. I learned though, I learned everyday! Take notes everyday and put them in the notes on your computer!! That way you will always have access to them!

Our instructor constantly asked if anyone had any questions and backed up often to answer the same question more than once!! Information comes at you fast! You can do this, you will do this!! I am proof of that!!

Once you graduate you will be a full stack developer! Then you will have a great support system to prepare you for the developer job market. You will be given thoughtful and tested information to succeed in landing your first developer job!!

I am so grateful for this experience and will be singing the praises of Carolina Code School for the rest of my life!!