Founded in Portugal in 2015, Code for All_ is a social impact startup that offers 14-week intensive and immersive Full Stack Programming Bootcamps. Students are guided through the course by a team of instructors who are graduates of the bootcamp. Code for All_ describes their teaching methods as "peculiar" and aimed at training students to write clean code.
Code for All_'s immersive programming bootcamps welcome beginners of all ages (over 18) and backgrounds (degree not needed) as long as they are willing to fully and passionately commit to becoming professional junior software developers within a short period of time. To apply to the bootcamps, prospective students must complete an online computer science 101 course, submit an online form, complete an online JavaScript tutorial, excel in a JavaScript code challenge, and attend online a workshop day that will be similar to the student experience during the bootcamp.
At each campus, different financing/sponsorship solutions are available to help candidates finance the bootcamp. Terms and conditions are listed on the Code for All_ website.
Code for All_ was formerly known as <Academia de Código_>.
Develop a Full-Stack programmer's mindset that will allow you to switch freely between back-end & front-end like a Boss. Use the freshest production techniques in software development, in a uniquely creative and disruptive environment that is both highly stimulating and uncannily informal. Become fluent in programming best practices as you boost your mad development skills using the coolest frameworks available to mankind. And, above all, learn to learn! (Which is, basically, the most useful skill that can ever be taught to a programmer!)
Financing
Deposit
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Financing
On each one of our campuses, we offer different financing/sponsorship solutions to help talented candidates that cannot advance the bootcamp's fee. Its specific terms and conditions are listed on our site's FAQs.
Getting In
Minimum Skill Level
None. We're 100% n00b friendly!
Prep Work
Online Prep Steps (Computer Science 101 course, <Online Form>, JavaScript tutorial, <Code Challenge>, UNIX tutorial, Eloquent JavaScript book reading) + Offline Prep Steps (A one-day "mutual test drive" online workshop.)
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Financing
Deposit
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Financing
On each one of our campuses, we offer different financing/sponsorship solutions to help talented candidates that cannot advance the bootcamp's fee. Its specific terms and conditions are listed on our site's FAQs.
Getting In
Minimum Skill Level
Familiarity with algebra concepts (a little math can’t hurt right?).
Prep Work
A recent-model laptop (or desktop) computer. A reliable high-speed internet connection.
On each one of our campuses, we offer different financing/sponsorship solutions to help talented candidates that cannot advance the bootcamp's fee. Its specific terms and conditions are listed on our site's FAQs.
Getting In
Minimum Skill Level
None. We're 100% n00b friendly!
Prep Work
Online Prep Steps (Computer Science 101 course, <Online Form>, JavaScript tutorial, <Code Challenge>, UNIX tutorial, Eloquent JavaScript book reading) + Offline Prep Steps (A one-day "mutual test drive" online workshop.)
The best code camp I've had the pleasure to be part of!
Recently completed their full stack web development coding bootcamp, and I am thrilled to share my positive experience. The program not only met but exceeded my expectations in terms of content, structure, and support. Very practical and fun!
During the 14 weeks you can learn a lot of content and completely immerse yourself in the world of programming. For this reason, it is obviously a very intense 14 weeks, but in the end it is worth it for all the knowledge acquired, even for those who come from a completely different area. The environment is also quite chill and the teaching method is quite creative.
I review this bootcamp by being a tremendous way to learn code. Teachers are really good, learning environment is great. Was great for me to learn with them. I recommend this experience for learning code.
"Thrilling bootcamp! Instructors were knowledgeable, diverse projects. A transformative journey into the programming world. Engaging workshops fostered a collaborative learning environment, propelling my coding skills to new heights!
There's a difficulty curve. And you'll feel it. Trust me. There's a lot to learn, and these guys know it. They give you the best they have. You'll be well prepared when you leave to keep going and levelling up your skills when you're done. It's a fast-paced experience, but their teachers are always there to help, as well as the rest of the team, with a great availability.
Amazing!! everything that happened, happened for a reason! Enjoy the process :) From teachers, environment and context, everything was amazing to experience! It's very hard but so satisfying to endure every challenge... Awesome that I commited to this bootcamp
Before I enrolled on this crazy ride I really didn't know much about the world of Programming and oh boy I couldn't expect anything crazier, but it definitely exceeded my expectations. These are by far the craziest 14 weeks I had ever experienced just because of how fast-paced it is. This course won't give you automatically a job especially if you don't put the proper time and effort into it and you need to be ready to support a lot of moments of frustration. The best thing abo...
Before I enrolled on this crazy ride I really didn't know much about the world of Programming and oh boy I couldn't expect anything crazier, but it definitely exceeded my expectations. These are by far the craziest 14 weeks I had ever experienced just because of how fast-paced it is. This course won't give you automatically a job especially if you don't put the proper time and effort into it and you need to be ready to support a lot of moments of frustration. The best thing about it is for sure the people you meet along the way and how supportive they are and that's what makes the bootcamp experience much better, especially because programming isn't just a guy in the basement doing it on its own. I definitely will bring a lot of great memories from it for the next chapters of my life.
Amazing experience. I had no previous contact with the programming world before and I left feeling like I knew so much! If anyone feels like they cant change their future think again! If you enroll, get ready for the best and most intese weeks of your life, you wont regret it !
Fun learning environment making you don´t want to miss any class, sometimes the day would be too full and others too empty that´s why I give a 1 star review on curriculum. The instructors are nice and always there with you. Sometimes they will not help you because that´s the way they want you to learn and to overcome your difficulties alone
Thrilled with this 14-week boot camp, it was really an experience , you don't know how much can you in 3 and a half months, really nice instructors or <MC's>, hands on's, an projects made for learning!
Your most important requirement: Give me your money first, be cool or get lost During classes you're highly pressured to be super happy and be the coolest guy/girl of all times. This results in you feeling that you've been placed in the same group of the top comedians of Portugal, but the reality is that either people are faking due to the pressure to be like that or either they are high. On friday afternoons most probably they are both and also drunk. In the t...
Your most important requirement: Give me your money first, be cool or get lost During classes you're highly pressured to be super happy and be the coolest guy/girl of all times. This results in you feeling that you've been placed in the same group of the top comedians of Portugal, but the reality is that either people are faking due to the pressure to be like that or either they are high. On friday afternoons most probably they are both and also drunk. In the tests prior to your admittance to the 14 week course they tell you explicitly that they're also screening your coolness, which if you fail you're out. That's the first warning, if you're a reserved or shy person (and can fake it in the initial screening tests) you'll feel yourself completely like a fish out of water, getting frustrated for being forced to be something/someone you aren't every single day.
Overcrowded classes Classes are overcrowded and incredibly noisy. You just can't concentrate/focus on the subject being given. It's amazing that people spend 8000€ on an intensive course and behave like they're forced to attend some free course and have zero consideration for their peers. So many times it seems the class is totally out of control, what a mess! It's not uncommon for on of the top so called Jedis (supposedly top teachers) to burnout and disappear at half course never to be seen again, there's no backup, leaving the remainder of the course to be dealt by the less experienced teachers, the "Padawans". Another mess!
Zero documentation If you thing at some point they'll provide you any documentation of the slides they present to you during classes, you're so wrong! Either you get organized and take screenshots of all the slides, be prepared in advance to do data scrapping to save it, or wait until one of your peers do it for you and pass it to you. You can even google it to find those same slides somewhere published for free on the web. It'll save you 8000€. Once you have that "documentation" you'll find out that it's good only for nothing except attending the classes, being completely useless as support in your future career. Damn! They don't even give you ANY CERTIFICATION in the end of the course, much less any documentation! The only thing "proving" you've been there is all their branding in your Linkedin profile, as they teach you to do.
Speed and abandonment In the first two or three weeks the teaching in so slow paced that it makes you despair, then suddenly they step full on the gas pedal and you just can't keep up with it. In the end of each class the "teachers" tell you to solve a problem and literally abandon the class to solve it, not being uncommon being completely clueless, being half the class with no choice other than take some indian guys classes on youtube to try to even try to understand what is being asked to be done. The other half just goes home to do the same but in a more calm environment. Some outliers, revolted with the situation, prefer even to play online games and scream intentionally to disturb the people who try to do something.
Job procurement This part is the biggest joke. You're on your own, there's no job procurement. There's the class to teach you how to enhance your Linkedin and the job and basically that's it. I consider this class the most important in the whole course as it indeed improved my visibility. Nevertheless, beware that their teachings are more about using YOU to advertise THEM, rather than to help you. Also, many companies will REJECT YOU when you tell that you've been on Academia de Código. If you're lucky, you're placed in the batch of students to have an interview with Deloitte even before the course ends and you think "well, it's starting better than expected" but then you find out that Deloitte pays Academia de Código for the privilege of screening on firsthand the next batch of cheap labor. After you get the interview you find out that their main goal is to hire the potentially cheapest guys out there, not the best. You'll soon find out why such a big company has zero talent retention capacity after one year. From the part of Academia de Código, now being rebranded as Code For All, their main concern from their former students is for them to leave a good review so other fools fall for it.
Final thoughts Their main goal is your money, if you learn anything it's secondary. Finding a job is totally up to you. If you think that you enter this course to get some help in being hired, you're wrong. Their 98% chance of being hired is totally bogus, they just take that number out of their magician's hat. The course content is really poor and their teaching method is ridiculous, you wont learn nothing there, and if you think you can enhance your current knowledge, you'll leave it even more confused and lost than you were before. I've spent 8000€ on this and not even if I attended 4 courses I would not see where those 8000€ were spent on. It weren't spent on you, that's for sure! But not all was totally completely bad in these 14 weeks! You can make some friends who shared with you the same pains in those lost 14 weeks (and 8000€ not in your pocket anymore) and in the last day you have one free pizza during the "Hackaton" competition, the only free thing they'll ever give you! In the end wins the team that was more consistent in being a "Puxa-saco" during the whole course. Before I chose Academia de Código I also investigated the reviews, and as with so many other stuff, when something is too good to be true, it's really too good to be true. Now I know why! Since there are so many students graduating, thus the world of contacts getting smaller and smaller, who will dare about giving bad reviews without being ostracised? Oh yeah, that's right!
It's funny that even charging 8000€ per student and having loads of people coming in and multiplying new rooms for the classes simultaneously, they are still broke and annoy us with emails begging us for more money disguised as "crowdfunding to help new students" for the next courses! It makes me think that their change in brand name (and perhaps creating a new company) is a way to run away from their debtors, who knows? I bet they'll change their name again in less than 3 years and repeat the cycle!
You've been warned. Think twice and check eg. 42 Lisboa. At least it's completely free and if it happens to not fit your needs you can simply jump out without the feeling of being ripped off!
Of the students who enroll at Code for All_, 100% graduated. 94% of graduates were job-seeking and 98% of job-seeking graduates found in-field employment after 180 days and report a median income of . Below is the 180 Day Employment Breakdown for 189 graduates included in this report:
180 Day Employment Breakdown
Description
Percentage
Full Time, In-Field Employee
98.4%
Full-time apprenticeship, internship or contract position
Although Code for All_ (formerly known as Academia de Código) is based in Portugal, the coding bootcamp is preparing career changers for global tech roles! Luis Santos, Head of Student Outcomes and Business Development, explains what students can expect from their extensive career support, and the types of tech roles that Code for All_ graduates typically land. Learn more about Code for All_’...
Igor Koury spent 9 years working as a Civil Engineer in Brazil, but wanted a better quality of life for himself. After researching his options, Igor travelled to Portugal to learn Full-Stack Software Development at Code for All_'s 14-week intensive and immersive Programming bootcamp. Having no previous experience with code before attending this course, Igor now shares with us how Code for All...
Code for All_ costs around €8,000. On the lower end, some Code for All_ courses like Intensive & Immersive REMOTE Full-Stack Programming Bootcamp cost €5,500.
Code for All_ has in-person campuses in Lisbon and Porto. Code for All_ also has a remote classroom so students can learn online.
Is Code for All_ worth it?
The data says yes! Code for All_ reports a 100% graduation rate, and 98% of Code for All_ alumni are employed. The data says yes! In 2021, Code for All_ reported a 100% graduation rate, a median salary of , and 98% of Code for All_ alumni are employed.
Is Code for All_ legit?
We let alumni answer that question. 390 Code for All_ alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Code for All_ and rate their overall experience a 4.87 out of 5.
Does Code for All_ offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?
You can read 390 reviews of Code for All_ on Course Report! Code for All_ alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed Code for All_ and rate their overall experience a 4.87 out of 5.
Is Code for All_ accredited?
While bootcamps must be approved to operate, accreditation is relatively rare. Code for All_ doesn't yet share information about their accreditation status.
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