Awesome Inc U

I went through the Awesome Inc U coding boot camp in the fall of 2016.  It was the first camp that they ran.

I had an excellent experience.  The curriculum at that time was Django + AngularJS.   It was 8 am - 5 pm every day.  I tended to stay until 7+ every night and then do 8+ hours on the weekend.  My feeling was that I was paying a lot and needed to get a lot out of it.  

I was hired immediately out of the camp so I didn't have any issues with job placement.  Then or since.  I worked with that company for 2 years and then was offered a higher position and moved to my current job.  I've also had a number of ongoing freelance jobs over the years.  

I came out of the camp with a lot of holes in my knowledge.  You should expect that.  You can't learn all of CS in a few months.  Or a few decades.  But the camp gave me a firm enough grounding in the basics that I've been able to flourish on the job.  And honestly, comparing my class with CS grads right out of college, I've been impressed with how functional our abilities were.  

Awesome Inc is a great company.  They are earnest in their desire for everyone to do well.  They approached everything from that direction - they clearly understand that if the students do well then their company will do well.  They are very engaged. 

This was a good career change for me.  Highly recommended. 

I attended the Summer 2023 remote bootcamp at Awesome inc. The experience has helped build a good foundation for my journey as a software developer, and taught me "how to learn" in a very short amount of time. The instructors were responsive, knowledgeable, and helpful. On several occasions they went above and beyond with the giving of their time (even after hours) to help us in our learning. I appreciate their commitment to our success, and I would recommend this programming bootcamp to anyone looking to get into the software development field.  

The experience I had in the boot camp was extremely time consuming and difficult, but overall it was a great learning experience. Although it might be hard task to handle especially with some of the time constraints, they have very helpful and well educated teachers there to help guide you along and point you in the right direction that you need to be heading to easily tackle whatever challenge comes your way. The way at which the boot camp moved was very fast, but like stated before the teachers are there to help you understand things that you cannot seem to wrap your head around, as well as they provide plenty of links and documents to look at to further look into the subjects you are learning at the time. Overall I had a amazing experience in the boot camp and learned a lot throughout the whole thing!

This program is designed to teach you the foundations of web development across various languages, as well as equip you with the necessary skills and resources needed to succeed in this field. The instructors are knowledgeable and helpful, the career coach works hard to help you get a job, and the program culture/community is top-notch. I just graduated from the program and am so thankful I took the leap. Awesome Inc knows what they are doing, and does everything they can to help you succeed in and out of their bootcamp. If you are at all interested in the career transition, I would highly recommend this bootcamp to anyone in the region.

Awesome Inc U Web Development Bootcamp was everything that was promised, and more than I had imagined. While I didn't go into the experience thinking it would be easy, I couldn't have imagined the rigors of taking on such an endeavor. It was well worth the time and financial investment. More importantly, it helped me learn in a way that was conducive to being prepared for the position I took in Quality Assurance/Development with a local tech company in Lexington. Could I have continued teaching myself in my free time and eventually gotten to a position of enough preparedness to begin a career in development? I believe so, but the bootcamp got me to that point much faster. It did so not only by accelerating my learning, pushing my limits, and getting me out of my comfort zone, but it did so by putting me in a more real-world scenario through encouragement of teamwork as well as providing guidance in obtaining my first position in tech. The instructors were very knowledgeable and capable in their positions. They provided guidance when necessary but encouraged self-reliance over taking the easy way out. All that to say I am very satisfied with the experience I had at Awesome Inc and would recommend anyone looking to pursue a career in tech to their bootcamp.

If you are contemplating a career change to web developer, look no further. Awesome Inc U's Web Developer Bootcamp will give you the skills you need to land that web dev job. I was hired before bootcamp was even over!

And by "skills" I mean the really important ones: learning how to learn... where to find help when you are lost... how to know if your code is "finished"... There are a million programming languages, frameworks, and technologies, but these skills will transfer to any web developer job (and many non-web-developer jobs!).

Classroom instruction began with a period of coding "warm-ups" where we tried to solve a problem in code. But the bulk of the day was spent in "lecture" —which should more properly have been called "playground" — where the instructor led us through the topic for the day. Instead of dispensing information during lecture, the instructor modeled the real web dev workflow. "Can we get this text centered? Let's try this..." "Hmm... that broke. Let's see if Google can help us."

We did, of course, start with the basics: HTML, CSS, JavaScript. Then we explored the frontend framework VueJS. On the backend, we learned SQL, PostreSQL, and Laravel (with PHP). Bootcamp culminated in a final project that brought all these technologies together.

But perhaps the most valuable part of my experience was the friendships and connections made. I had been a teacher for 10 years before deciding to switch to web development, and so I didn't know very many web developers or technology companies. I had a very small network going in. But now I have a small group of good friends (the other bootcampers), several mentors (the instructors and administrators)—and I got to meet numerous community business leaders who gave presentations throughout the bootcamp. I will certainly lean on this expanded network as I dive into my new job and beyond!

tldr: Worth every penny just for the friends and connections made.

I came to Awesome, Inc. with barely any prior coding knowledge. I was surprised to find out how hard the bootcamp was! I was definitely over my head. We were learning, really learning, from 8am until 5pm every day for the entire bootcamp. I learned so much more than coding. We also learned about design, agile development, and the job market for web development in our area. We had lunch and learns with real web developers and got to pick their brains about whatever we wanted. My classmates were an entire other source of valuable information on literally anything I wanted to know. I am 100% that I have never absorbed as much information in such a short period of time ever in my life, and doubt I ever will again. When it was all over I felt such a sense of accomplishment, and that was just the start! They helped me get my dream job so quickly! My employer is so impressed with the knowledge that I have, and now I am in a place that I had started to think I would never get to. I highly recommend this bootcamp. It is changing lives in my city, and I'm so happy to have been part of it!

The Web Developer Bootcamp is a 3 month, full-time training program for aspiring web developers. The curriculum was designed in collaboration with local technology employers to prepare individuals to dive into a career in web development. The intense training program is designed to take students from the basics of programming to competency in building modern web applications. It includes over 500 hours of hands-on-training, gaining experience while building 10+ software projects in an Agile environment, using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Laravel, MySQL, React, Google Cloud, GitHub, and more.