Coding DojoReviews of codingdojo.com

Coding dojo has a great curriculum. Self-teaching myself was really hard but coding dojo's way really pushed me on the path to becoming a great fluent fullstack web dev.

I had a great experience at coding dojo. Teachers were very helpful, classes were interactive, and everytime I had a question there always someone ready to help.

Enjoyed my experience with Coding Dojo, I felt like I learned a lot. How much you get out of Coding Dojo depends on how much you put in. Great teachers and I would recommend it.

The onsite experience was very helpful in technical work. Visualization is your own part of the studies as working at the school and not actually working in a tech job can prove to stimulate at least a few illusions about how the work will be. The technical approach is really well done at Coding Dojo. They give you a taste of everything and keep you moving around enough so that when the dust settles, you can see the common patterns of the most important aspects to learn, as they are common among the many different tastes you aquire.

I LOVE the Dojo! I think I had the best experience I could have had! I’m so glad I made the decision to go and complete the dojo full stack to become a programmer. What makes the dojo different from all those boot camps is that they provide THE BEST environment possible. Let me explain; when you have to dedicate that much time into a program there is a few things I considered was most important: - a curriculum that employers would be interested in - the format of the Boot Camp, I was able to join pre-covid in person and this is why I had such a great experience - location, i did not want to commute a lot on top of spending a huge amount of time at the dojo. The location was perfect to me. - parking, yes! Other bootcamp are so inconveniently located that it makes it a hustle to get there. The dojo in Burbank is AMAZINGLY located to a cute outdoor shopping center. 1. Huge parking. 2. Always something going on even late - I felt very safe when leaving the dojo late at night. 3. Free parking (which is a must when you are not able to work for the whole duration of the bootcamp) - career services. The careers adviser back then really helped me get my current job (while on my last stack trainning) I feel so lucky and grateful for all the events that worked out so well. My now supervisor, came to the school being himself a dojo graduate to offer a job. Even tho I wasn’t yet graduated I showed my interest and applied. Within a week I had a trial of 3 day at their office. Another week after a sign promise of employment. When I finished my last stack and graduated I signed my employment contract and started my full time position the very next week. - the Burbank dojo is such a good environment by the way it’s layer out, classrooms, open floor, ping pong area, KITCHEN, alunies area. And had sports on Wednesday where you could air out your brain and get to do something together with students and instructors. The whole place is so cozy, you feel in a safe environment. If you need to take a break there are comfy couches. You can store your blankets and anything you like no one is going to steal it. The good vibe is also shared by the students, alumni Ed who are all so nice and understand the hustle and will do their best to help you. Same for the instructors - my instructor Patrick was the most amazing person, so patient and kind. I really felt in a good environment. The dojo really lay a good foundation for you to make the best of it. You do NOT need to be the best of your cohort to find a job. I definitely wasn’t, I struggled and I was the first one to sign a job offer. I am sure/ hope that people got really good and well paid job since graduation. The job offer that I signed back then wasn’t high. The reason a lot of people didn’t even apply. But I am now a manager and my pay had much increased. But more than that I love what I do, for who I do it and with who I do it. I have worked many jobs with so many different bosses, colleagues and I have never been as happy as I am now. I can say that I work for people trying to make this world a better place and I have stories that proved that my work had improve the life of people 🙏🏼 I have find my calling. All this to say that this bootcamp is for everyone to make anything of it

Super approachable information, presented in an easy to understand, albeit still challenging manner. Coding Dojo has great instructors and has left me feeling 100% ready to jumpstart my career as a software engineer.

Coding Dojo is a great bootcamp for beginners. Concepts are explained in an understandable way and the Learn platform which is the bread and butter of the bootcamp is excellent. You build on concepts slowly instead of learning the more complicated stuff right off the bat. They also spend an hour every day going over algorithms to prep us for our job search after the bootcamp. My only complaints really are the other students. Algorithms are done in groups, and projects at the end of each stack are solo or group, however to practice the AGILE software development we were expected to do stand ups every day with other cohort-mates. In both the group algorithms and daily stand ups for projects, I had team members who did not contribute and that honestly does hurt the experience. However -- when I did bring this up to my instructor, she resolved it whenever it happened, whether that was moving me to a different group or making algorithm groups larger so that there'd be a higher chance of participation. I would recommend Coding Dojo to any beginner who is trying to break into the field.

tldr; I like the structure of the class and the instructor, however, I do believe that there are some improvement can be made in TA scheduling and group project. For TA scheduling, I was informed that I took too many 1 on 1 coding reviews every week which I thought was supposed to be encouraging to utilize. For group project, I only got assigned to the other student since the rest of the team members didn't show up. I didn't feel that I got the full experience of co-working because of that. Regardless of those two points, I'd say I would highly recommend Coding Dojo because this is the program that I persisted in learning coding and finally made my own web app. Being a person who always procrastinates, it's fascinating that the team has a good structure and rules (assignment every week and exams) that step by step leads the students to learn to code and with TA to help when meeting with difficulties.