Coding DojoReviews of codingdojo.com

I did the 20-week data science program and it taught me the basics of what a data analyst and data engineer does. Note the difference! You will need experience and training beyond this course to make it as a data scientist. The certificate is way too expensive in my opinion. If you are a beginner, you definitely will learn a bunch and it will take 25 hours per week at a minimum to understand. The teachers were cool and they gave us plenty of opportunities to ask for help beyond the weekly meetings. However, the "career service" was just Zoom calls explaining how to connect on Linked In. To land a career as an analyst, you will likely need a bachelor's degree to compete with the hundreds of other resumes. This course might benefit someone who knows how to start a business with a few other people. Other than that, you will need to either know someone in the field willing to hire you or go all out on their career path via Linked-In (message 10 people per day) to gain employment. However, you can find basic data science courses for less than $50 to test out the waters before committing to a course of this magnitude and expense.

I like many people signed up to Coding Dojo because they made the claim of having you job ready to make a transition in to Cyber Security. After completing the course I can say that it does not help prepare you to be job ready. The program does a good job of introducing you to the field but that is about it, an introduction. $16K for an introduction to the cyber security world is way to much in my opinion. The first 8 weeks are supposed to help prepare you for the ComTIA Security+ exam and I am glad I paid money for other resources because they didn't cover most all the topics that are on the test. Professor Messor has a YouTube playlist dedicated to the Security+ exam and that by far, was more helpful in preparing me for the test which I passed but I had to binge watch those videos in between keeping up with the classwork of Coding Dojo... and the Professor Messor videos are available for FREE!!!! I know they have built their reputation based on coding and I've heard great things about that but their Cyber security stack has many holes and flaws. The assignments are too elementary to be considered work experience. It causes more frustration than learning because there were plenty of times where you had to request help from a TA because the lab assignment would not work as it should. The online lesson are far from being beginner friendly and the staff although they are nice and helpful are not experts in the field. A few of them received the same certifications we paid to learn about while I was studying with the company. In my opinion you would be much better off doing Googles Cyber Security Cert or even ISC2 Certified in Cyber Security and save your pockets in the process. The Career Coordinator they promised has yet to meet with me due to an internal shifting of staff. I went through a 6 month boot camp and met with someone once. I am speaking as a person who was able to was achieve the tops honors of the program Triple Black Belt. Just unacceptable quality for the price paid for the package.

I completed the Coding Dojo online part time flex program earlier this year. Overall I had a good experience with Coding Dojo. My instructor was knowledgeable and patient and the TAs were responsive and helpful. My complaint is just that what I learned was not worth the expense. I learned the very basics of full stack web development. I realized quickly after graduating that what I learned during the bootcamp isn’t even close to enough to get a job. And that is ok, Coding Dojo just needs to be upfront about the fact that you will have to spend many more months of studying on your own before you’ll be close to ready to apply for jobs. Of course they don’t do that because that’s not what potential students want to hear but it’s the truth. If I could go back in time I would save myself $7000 and learn to code on my own.

Update: Thanks for clearing that up. I will remove the review once this matter is closed. I submitted a form in April and had no follow up until 60 days later, in June. They did not answer any of my questions or tell me the amount which I will receive as a refund, instead they sent me a "receipt" pdf that I could not open or preview. Because it was suspicious I did not download it but ran a scan on it instead... which the result reported it as possibly malicious. I am waiting to hear a response from them.

As a Dallas student, the experience in the beginning with the regional instructors was great (Web fundamentals and Python), however, the Dallas teacher experience was quite different in a bad way. Only 1 teacher and 1 assistant (instead of access to 4 teachers and 8 or so TA's), and the Dallas teacher was considerably less informative/helpful/competent than previous teachers were, and there's no way around being assigned to them. Highly recommend Coding Dojo...If you're not in Texas.

The overall experience while at the bootcamp was a positive one. The instructors were knowledgable and always willing and able to help. As far as the content and support during the program it was wonderful. I found the career support at the location I attended to be lacking. HOWEVER, I have recently reconnected with the Career Services and it looks like they have made some major improvements to their level of support so I am looking forward to seeing how I can finally break into the industry with their help.

I was new to programming, I had about 3-4 weeks of prior experience mostly just online courses. My expectation was that I would be able to get a job after bootcamp with the skills acquired at bootcamp. The bootcamp was good that it quickly taught us a lot of new concepts fast, however their strategy to cram 3 stacks in 14 weeks is definitely not a good idea, I think they either need to make this a bit longer or they need to focus on one or two stacks. After bootcamp I felt like I BARELY knew each stack and it was not really enough proficiency to get a job in either. Their platform is not very good, I spent most of my time self-researching on google or asking friends. After you graduate, there does not seem to be sufficient resources for help on projects that you are personally working on. Overall, it's one way to jump start your career in programming but don't expect to be ready to get a job after, I had to spend another 3 months on my own self-studying daily.

I WAS APART OF THE ONLINE CLASSES. The low parts of coding dojo was the pacing/organization. As a student with zero experience, I found it hard to stay with the current flow.. I was behind on every stack. By the time I was getting a language, we were already on to different things. However, that is the atmosphere of coding boot camp. It also seemed like students who had prior coding experience were able to keep up or even get ahead. If possible, maybe allow a extra week between languages for review or catching up. Or just do two stacks spread over the same time period. HTML, CSS, Js and then Python, C# or MEAN... Good parts are the instructors. They often went out of there way to help and made themselves available throughout the day. Classes sometime weren’t the most organized and had some lulls due to errors but that’s coding! Great part was Susan and the career readiness week. She was very helpful, very intelligent and resourceful. I definitely will not hesitate to contact her if need be!