Big Nerd Ranch

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Big Nerd Ranch is a mobile app development and design firm and training company that has led one-week intensive bootcamps since 2001. Hosted at their Atlanta, Georgia campus, courses focus on mobile development in iOS and Android as well as front-end web development, Python, full stack and React. Students are taught how to learn in order to stay ahead in the tech world. Students learn how to create digital products that stand out, and are able to connect with instructors and classmates in order to continue coding with confidence.

Course instructors are full-time developers, designers, and consultants who have real-world experience in building custom iOS, Android, and Web applications for clients. In addition to the bootcamps, instructors also teach at companies throughout the world, including Facebook, Spotify, Airbnb and more as part of their corporate training program. Students live and learn at the ranch during these courses and distractions are limited, as meals and accommodations are provided.

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Accelerated iOS with Swift

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Full Time 40 Hours/week

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Start Date	None scheduled
Cost	$4,200
Class size	12
Location	Atlanta

If you’ve already mastered procedural and object-oriented programming and need a fast-paced introduction to iOS development, this course is for you. With this five-day bootcamp, you’ll be building elegant and efficient iOS apps in no time. What You'll Learn: - Setting up text input fields on the iPhone and move the virtual keyboard onto the screen - Pulling data from a web service for use in an application and storing that data on the device - How to handle touch and complex multi-touch sequences - Properly configure your user interface to handle multiple device orientations and device rotation - Using Auto Layout to create user interfaces that work on any device - Using Core Data for data persistence View our website for a full course syllabus.

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Advanced Android

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Full Time 40 Hours/week

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Android

Start Date	None scheduled
Cost	$4,200
Class size	12
Location	Atlanta

Go beyond the fundamentals in our five-day Advanced Android course for experienced Android developers. You’ll learn how to prep your app for app store submission and the techniques that make your code stand out from the crowd. We’ll also teach you how to maintain your app and improve its performance. What You'll Learn: - Authentication with OAuth - Handling network errors - How to choose the right threading options - Testing with mock responses and recorded server responses - Simplifying your code by leveraging 3rd-party libraries - Implementing fully custom views - Creating custom notifications - Signing apps, Google play release process, alpha and beta releases View our website for a full course syllabus.

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Advanced iOS

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Full Time 40 Hours/week

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Start Date	None scheduled
Cost	$4,200
Class size	12
Location	Atlanta

This 5-day class explores advanced iOS development topics and will teach you how to maximize the performance of your new and existing iOS applications. Prepare your brain for an influx of Swift and iOS programming knowledge. What You'll Learn: - Various tools for document-based and multithreaded architecture - Create iOS extensions - Record video, process barcodes and synthesize speech using AVFoundation - Create custom animations for transitions between view controllers - Take advantage of unit testing - Create your own UIs with custom Layers and Core Graphics View our website for a full course syllabus.

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Android Essentials

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Full Time 40 Hours/week

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Android

Start Date	None scheduled
Cost	$4,200
Class size	12
Location	Atlanta

Four out of every five smartphones uses the Android operating system. Learn to build for this ever-present platform with our five-day introduction to Android programming. What You'll Learn: - Build sophisticated applications using multiple activities and fragments - Integrate with web services using REST APIs and threading - Effectively handle configuration changes and low memory states - Communicate between and within Android applications - Make your user interface shine with styles and themes - Animate views using property animations View our website for a full course syllabus.

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Front-End Essentials

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Full Time 40 Hours/week

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CSS, Front End, HTML, JavaScript

Start Date	None scheduled
Cost	$4,200
Class size	12
Location	Atlanta

If your website or web app doesn’t work on smartphones, then it simply doesn’t work. More people are using mobile devices than ever before, requiring a new approach to design and development. This 5-day course teaches you how to implement responsive, mobile-friendly layouts for your website and provides a solid foundation in programming for the browser. From the first day of class, you’ll build websites and apps that work in different browsers and on different screens, learning skills that will last beyond the next wave of devices and will survive new OS releases. Enterprise teams will find this course especially useful for building apps used in a bring-your-own-device environment. What You'll Learn: - Building responsive, mobile-friendly websites - Using Bootstrap for rapid styling and how to write the code that powers your application - Improving your site’s performance and efficiency - Leveraging real-time data for collaborating across web and native apps - Writing effective JavaScript, CSS, and HTML5 - Utilizing Ember.js, jQuery, and Node.js View our website for a full course syllabus.

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iOS Essentials with Swift

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Full Time 40 Hours/week

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Start Date	None scheduled
Cost	$5,200
Class size	12
Location	Atlanta

If you're new to iOS development and want to write applications that run on the iPhone or iPad, this course is just what you need. In just seven days, we’ll have you building your first iOS application using Swift. What You'll Learn: - The toolchains and the classes that make up the iOS UI framework - Using Core Data for data persistence - Understand application architecture and how to pass data around in your application. - Syntax, best practices and hands-on examples for functions and closures - How Swift's native Error Handling mechanism helps you write elegant and safe code View our website for a full course syllabus.

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Graduate • iOS Essentials with Swift • Atlanta
Jun 16, 2017
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I attended the week-long "iOS Essentials With Swift" bootcamp at the Georgia location. The teacher was very well versed in the topic and the students, with their wide range of software development experience were an addition to the whole course. This course is really ideal for those who already have some experience working in Swift and want to expand on this knowledge. Even though I say that, I went in as a beginner but was still able to get some very valuable education and practical appro...
I attended the week-long "iOS Essentials With Swift" bootcamp at the Georgia location. The teacher was very well versed in the topic and the students, with their wide range of software development experience were an addition to the whole course. This course is really ideal for those who already have some experience working in Swift and want to expand on this knowledge. Even though I say that, I went in as a beginner but was still able to get some very valuable education and practical approaches to problem solving from the course.

Typically, we had a review of some aspect of Swift and iOS then we would code through the examples ourselves. We spent ~12 hours every day going through material, working the examples and doing any small side projects related to what we had learned that day. Of course, we did have time during the day to take a break and stretch our legs before getting back to it. Everything was there at the location for you, so you really only had to think about coding.

I definitely enjoyed the course, the instructor and the students. You do build a camaraderie that goes beyond that week. I would recommend this boot camp to anyone interested in getting into iOS development.

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Jun 16, 2017
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Advanced iOS Programming
Spend a good time but the quality of the content and the way things are teach is far from ideal. And the "Advanced" in the name is really misleading. It touches topics outside a simple tableview app, but there is not much advanced level stuff.

Luckly the instructar was really good and even let me help him giving some guidance to other students. Could have been worse if it wasn't for him.

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Jun 15, 2017
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Good Introduction to iOS
I attended the BNR bootcamp in Atlanta in 2014. Overall I had a good experience. The material was alright but I guess I was expecting a much more in depth explanation of the concepts coming from an already technical field. As an introduction and learning what was available it was alright. As being able to use the skills right after the course I am not sure. I think the exercises and the explanation required more development but this was in 2014.

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The class and instructor was illuminating. The class made me realize how little I knew of the subject, yet I was given a foundation that could be used to build apon. The instructor was patient and knowledgeable about the material - well beyond the course material.

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Cyber Security, Mobile App Development, Full Stack Developer, Front End Developer

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Big Nerd Ranch costs around $5,200. On the lower end, some Big Nerd Ranch courses like Front-End Essentials cost $4,200.

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Big Nerd Ranch offers courses like Accelerated iOS with Swift, Advanced Android, Advanced iOS, Android Essentials and 2 more.

Where does Big Nerd Ranch have campuses?

Big Nerd Ranch has an in-person campus in Atlanta.

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Deposit	Payment is due in full upon registration.
Financing	The registration fee covers the cost of training, lodging, meals and educational materials, as well as a shuttle to and from major airports. Students cover the cost of additional transportation (e.g., airfare, rental cars, public transportation or taxis), guest fees, meals other than those provided for our students, and any additional activity fees such as bike rentals or greens fees.
Refund / Guarantee	We offer a 10% discount with a valid military, school or educator ID. In addition, alumni automatically qualify for a 10% discount.

Minimum Skill Level	Without prior experience in either a procedural programming language (such as C, Pascal, VB, or PHP) or another object-oriented platform (such as Java or C#), this class may prove to be extremely challenging.
Placement Test	No
Interview	No

Deposit	Payment is due in full upon registration.
Financing	The registration fee covers the cost of training, lodging, meals and educational materials, as well as a shuttle to and from major airports. Students cover the cost of additional transportation (e.g., airfare, rental cars, public transportation or taxis), guest fees, meals other than those provided for our students, and any additional activity fees such as bike rentals or greens fees.
Refund / Guarantee	We offer a 10% discount with a valid military, school or educator ID. In addition, alumni automatically qualify for a 10% discount.

Minimum Skill Level	Students should be familiar with the basics of Android development, including creating new projects, using Activities and Fragments, implementing a layout, using a Service and making network requests.
Placement Test	No
Interview	No

Deposit	Payment is due in full upon registration.
Financing	The registration fee covers the cost of training, lodging, meals and educational materials, as well as a shuttle to and from major airports. Students cover the cost of additional transportation (e.g., airfare, rental cars, public transportation or taxis), guest fees, meals other than those provided for our students, and any additional activity fees such as bike rentals or greens fees.
Refund / Guarantee	We offer a 10% discount with a valid military, school or educator ID. In addition, alumni automatically qualify for a 10% discount.

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Advanced iOS

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Android Essentials

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iOS Essentials with Swift

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Advanced iOS Programming

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Minimum Skill Level	The class will cover Swift and Objective-C interoperability, but is taught using Swift. We recommend at least three months of working iOS development experience prior to taking this class.
Placement Test	No
Interview	No

Minimum Skill Level	A working knowledge of Java is necessary for this course and students should have programming experience. However, no Android programming experience is necessary.
Placement Test	No
Interview	No

Minimum Skill Level	Software development experience is necessary, though it does not have to be with JavaScript. Working knowledge of HTML and CSS will be very helpful, but is not required.
Placement Test	No
Interview	No

Minimum Skill Level	Prior experience in either a procedural programming language (such as C, Pascal, VB, or PHP) or another object-oriented platform (such as Java or C#) is strongly recommended.
Placement Test	No
Interview	No