Beach Coders Academy

I took the 1 month front end web development course and was happy...I came into the the course with limited knowledge of development and left much more confident. The program is pretty fast paced, but if you study on your own you'll get alot out of it. I liked the small class environment and the fact that we were actively writing programs or building sites every class, rather than listening to lectures.

Instead of learning programming myself, I find this class is more organized and boosting my skills step by step, the projects really helped my front end development skills.

I have been teaching myself programming in the last few months and have found it a bit frustrating with tons of information available on the internet, as well as different resources, learning platforms and schools online and offline. Beach Coders Academy helped me to make transition from basic level to an advanced level in the field of frontend web development. I believe now I have a great foundation of knowledge and skills that are necessary to advance in the field of writing code. Thanks to our instructor, who really made the learning process fun and easy! Despite the very specific vocabulary as well as English is being my third language, I was able to understand every single thing, again thanks to our great instructor. They have an excellent job placement program as well ;)

"Great choice, great value" I went in as a beginner and came out with enough basics and resources to be able to continue learning. It's an immersive, fast-learn model from which one gets the most benefit if able to put in lots of study time outside of class. In any case it offers a wealth of training that goes much farther much faster than expensive college programs. Instructors who know their stuff, and who make class enjoyable and fun while instructive and providing full value. Job support is offered but I haven't yet taken advantage of it.

I have been a print designer for 20+ years and I have been wanting to take a course in UX for the past two years. I finally did some research and found Beach Coders Academy. I talked to several students including a student who said they left a bad review and from my understanding it was more of a disgruntled student who could not be placed type of situation, but everyone has their own story. I do feel that after speaking with a few other students, the one on one coaching that Beach Coders Academy had, made it that much more appealing. I compared it to General Assembly, which also is a great course but too expensive and the classes don't give you as much one on one. I keep saying this because for me that was a big factor. My dream for this class was to be able to take my idea for an app I have been sitting on and develop it finally as a project for myself, and finally learn how to develop a UX project from concept to wireframes. The UI was the easy part for me but UX is a totally different discipline and in order to compete in the market I needed to learn UX, speak the language and also create my app. I highly encourage going into a UX class with a project you want to develop, it makes it more impactful and fun to see it come to life. The instructors at BCA were able to guide me and inspire me to develop my final project. I am currently collaborating on a new UX project and I am excited to see where my new set of skills will take me. As far as my app, I am testing and refining the UI and building a pitch deck to get it off the ground, that's another thing, James, the founder, walked me through all the steps needed to take my idea to market, I had a ton of questions :). So, grateful.

Great class. Boost my skills in programming and now got a full time software job and getting paid really well.