I've worked with these guys. They're great! Glad to see you on here!
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I've just finished up the Full-Stack bootcamp and have to echo the same sentiments of a lot of the others posting. It has been a great experience overall and I can definitely say I felt like I've learned a lot.
Like anything though - you only get out what you put into it. I know personally that I have suffered at times when a busy week at work came up and I didn't focus or concentrate on the course as much as I should have. On average I spent 20-30 hours a week (on 18 week track) - mostly by personal choice and interest. Once you get through the foundational stuff and on to the projects the fun starts as suddenly you are not being guided or semi-handheld so much and the things you work on become more interesting - my Mentor would throw in additional challenges on top of the base functionality needed for some of the projects to keep me working on stuff that was new to me as well which was awesome.
The office hours are often a life saver as well - every day for 4 hours you can live chat with mentors who aren't yours to get you past the thing that has you stuck. Especially at the beginning these guys were able to keep the frustration levels down while the firehose was on full.
If you set aside the time, be open to being really mentored and learn that StackOverflow is going to become your new favourite site then you will get a lot out of this course.
I'll probably do another course with them at some point and will work on the capstone I created further to see if I can build it into something worthy of being featured here too at some point. :)
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this looks awesome. Definitely going to look into it. Love the concept of being paired with a mentor. I've been trying to pick up several different languages and still feel as if I'm just grasping at straws going from book to book/video to video.
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