UCLA Extension Boot Camps offer 12-week, full-time and 24-week, part-time web development courses, as well as a 24-week, part-time cybersecurity course and an 18-week, part-time product management course. The full stack curriculum includes HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Express.js, Node.js, databases, MongoDB, MySQL, and Git.
The cybersecurity curriculum offers hands-on training in networking, systems, web technologies, databases, and defensive and offensive cybersecurity.
The product management curriculum teaches in-demand product management skills, starting with the essentials. Learners will master the tools to set themselves apart and deliver great products via roadmap development, backlog management, product life cycle management, A/B testing, and data analysis.
Applicants do not need prior experience to enroll, but once admitted, all students will complete a pre-course tutorial. The programs are designed for working professionals or students who are actively pursuing a career change or advancement or are looking to learn a new skill.
Students will benefit from a wide range of career services to be positioned for success through graduation and beyond. Services include portfolio reviews, resume and social media profile support, high-impact career events, workshops, mock interviews, and 1:1 career coaching. Those who complete the program will receive an Award of Completion from UCLA Extension and have a portfolio of projects or certification training demonstrating a working knowledge of web development, product management, or cybersecurity.
UCLA Extension Boot Camps are offered in collaboration with edX.
Omar Patel is a great professor. He's very hands on and engaging. He's very open to new ideas of teaching to better engage students and get them excited about learning the subject. He makes himself available outside of class, puts in the extra effort to get you the help you need, and wants you to succeed. With every problem, he challenges you to figure it out on your own, but gives you the tools you need to get to the end result.
The course is challenging and requires a lot of st...
Omar Patel is a great professor. He's very hands on and engaging. He's very open to new ideas of teaching to better engage students and get them excited about learning the subject. He makes himself available outside of class, puts in the extra effort to get you the help you need, and wants you to succeed. With every problem, he challenges you to figure it out on your own, but gives you the tools you need to get to the end result.
The course is challenging and requires a lot of studying outside the class. You will succeed with the help provided, the TA's and Omar are great, but if you aren't willing to put in the work or seek out assistance when behind, it will be extremely difficult to catch back up.
When taking this course, expect to be challenged and expect to put in the work every week, and be ready to take advantage of all the assistance provided outside of class time.
On top of teaching the material, Omar provides a lot of assistance in finding jobs, more than would be expected of him.
Alex Garett of UCLA Extension Boot Camps
Student Success Manager
Jun 19, 2017
Ever wanted to learn how to code? Interested in joining a supportive community? If so, then the Coding Boot Camp with UCLA is right for you! I know it was right for me in my personal experience. I had limited coding knowledge prior to joining, but after 6 months, I became confident in my ability as a junior web developer.
Overall Experience:
Perhaps the most important mindset to have entering the boot camp (or any boot camp for that matter) is that you need to put in the ti...
Ever wanted to learn how to code? Interested in joining a supportive community? If so, then the Coding Boot Camp with UCLA is right for you! I know it was right for me in my personal experience. I had limited coding knowledge prior to joining, but after 6 months, I became confident in my ability as a junior web developer.
Overall Experience:
Perhaps the most important mindset to have entering the boot camp (or any boot camp for that matter) is that you need to put in the time to learn not only in class, but outside of class as well. You get out as much as you put in after all. With that in mind, the program was designed to help you help yourself. Every week there is a homework assignment designed to challenge you and expand on the lectures in class. There are also 3 projects where you work in teams; these projects are meant to start your portfolio for your career search.
Curriculum:
The curriculum for this program was made to give you the strong foundation you need to continue learning even after the boot camp. The pace is quick, but you'll get the hang of it so long as you put in your hours coding. The curriculum starts off with front end technologies, then back end. All of which you learn are in demand technologies based off of market research. The instructors also tend to send you additional resources (like video tutorials, articles, etc) related to the curriculum.
Instructors:
With their own personal knowledge and experience in the tech community, the instructors can really give you insight into the job market and the sort of skills you need to expand upon to make yourself competitive. I really enjoyed learning from my instructors and appreciate how they went above and beyond to help me out. I never once felt like I was on my own when I was learning, and I always knew that they were there for me if I needed help.
Job Assistance:
The career assistance is really focused on helping you find opportunities to interview for. Going to interviews itself is always a learning opportunity. If anything, I think the one thing that has helped the most in this aspect is the community. Your fellow classmates, instructors, and counselors all have resources they share with you to help you enter the tech industry. It's really up to you to then pursue them. Not even a 3 weeks after I completed the program, I already found a job where I can use the skills I learned in the boot camp.
Basically, the Coding Boot Camp with UCLA has been worth every dime and penny. No regrets there!
Alex Garett of UCLA Extension Boot Camps
Student Success Manager
Jun 13, 2017
This course is not EASY!!! It requires time and dedication. But don't let this discourage you, the faculty team is supportive and knowledgeable. The instructor, Omar Patel, is amazing at presenting coding concepts and teacher's assistance makes themselves readily available for office hours.
This course is part-time, but you'll have to study and work outside of class to grasp the concepts. It is recommended that you put in 20 hours/week, at times you'll be frustrated and doubtin...
This course is not EASY!!! It requires time and dedication. But don't let this discourage you, the faculty team is supportive and knowledgeable. The instructor, Omar Patel, is amazing at presenting coding concepts and teacher's assistance makes themselves readily available for office hours.
This course is part-time, but you'll have to study and work outside of class to grasp the concepts. It is recommended that you put in 20 hours/week, at times you'll be frustrated and doubting your intelligence. But happens to most students, I had felt this way once or twice during this course but I survive and you too can do same.
To do well in this course you'll need the following:
1: Time Management: Allocate time to study the material, do not rely on being spoon fed for material.
2: Resilience: This is going to be difficult with a lot of material being thrown at you. Just remember your ultimate goal, and how this course is going to help achieve this goal.
3. Open-mind: Learning to develop is completely different and new and requires a different mindset. When learning these skills step in with an open mind and explore a new perspective of thinking.
Alex Garett of UCLA Extension Boot Camps
Student Success Manager
Jun 09, 2017
If you are looking to start a career in development I highly recommend this course. I've done my share of research regarding coding camps before picking this course and I am happy with my decision. This program offers great curriculum and value.
1) Overall Experience
I had a very positive experience. As i mentioned before, my goal was to get a job in tec...
If you are looking to start a career in development I highly recommend this course. I've done my share of research regarding coding camps before picking this course and I am happy with my decision. This program offers great curriculum and value.
1) Overall Experience
I had a very positive experience. As i mentioned before, my goal was to get a job in tech as a developer and this program helped me do just that. There is no magic involved, just like with anything else, you get what you put in. Before starting the program I had basic understanding of HTML and CSS, and very very basic understanding of JavaScript. Upon completion of this program I knew how to build full-stack JavaScript applications.
As I said before, just like with any other Boot Camp, you are going to get what you put in.
2) Curriculum
The curriculum is designed to teach you in demand technologies. The curriculum does a good job of covering everything from the front-end to server side. The projects and homework in the curriculum will give you relative freedom and creativity to build applications that are based on the in demand technologies. Most importantly it will teach you JavaScript in depth, from on screen interaction to server side scripting and data manipulation.
3) Instructors
The instructors and TAs were awesome! ALL are professionals in their fields. The instructors and TAs are very passionate and engaging. I never had a problem getting help from them. If ever there was something I did not understand or a problem that at the time i could not overcome they would go out of their way to help me.
4) Tips for success
I've had close to 0 programing experience before this program, and a few weeks upon graduation I've already secured a contractor position.
What can I say? You get what you put in. If you have 0 programing experience just like I did, be prepared to go above and beyond, doing the minimum is not going to be enough. That goes for ANY boot camp, not just this one.
Take some time prior to the start of the program and take some online courses
(There are plenty of free courses available online). That will help you get the ball rolling and help you spend more time building apps and projects rather than trying to understand the syntax of the programming language. Ask plenty of questions, I can guarantee you that if you have a question about something there is at least one person that has the same question!
During the program I would encourage you to continually learn topics of interest on your own.
f your aptitude is high and you feel that you are not being challenged, figure out a way to challenge yourself. See if you can incorporate other technologies into your projects or homeworks.
Practice , practice and practice!!!! The only way to actually learn programming is to build stuff.
Alex Garett of UCLA Extension Boot Camps
Student Success Manager
May 01, 2017
This program is great for all levels of students, from first time coders to students with CS degrees. The program is really well designed and structured to build upon the previous weeks lesson and assignments.
Even though this is "part time", it is very much a full time commitment. While I have a CS degree and have been coding for some time, full stack was still new and at times it was a challenge to keep pace with the homework assignments AND work a full time job. Working fullti...
This program is great for all levels of students, from first time coders to students with CS degrees. The program is really well designed and structured to build upon the previous weeks lesson and assignments.
Even though this is "part time", it is very much a full time commitment. While I have a CS degree and have been coding for some time, full stack was still new and at times it was a challenge to keep pace with the homework assignments AND work a full time job. Working fulltime and enrolling in this program is possible, but I would highly recommend discussing with team at UCLA Extension if you have the technical foundation to work full time and complete the homework and projects. Classes are essentially total approximately 12 hrs per week, then you will be working on your homework and projects between 10-30hrs per week. Even if the homework is easy, the more you put into this program, the more you will get out of this program. That goes for both the technical AND the career building aspects of this program.
I was already employed as a backend developer and took this program to learn the overall "stack" and the tools and technology involved. While the specific technology taught is not part of my day job (I code in python), learning Javascript and NodeJS, along with the essential base engineering for web appliations has greatly improved my abilities at my current position. The career building information was also fantastic and has given me a great foundation how to present my skills and apply for a new job when I'm ready.
This program was worth every penny spent and very happy to have enrolled and recommend it highly!
Alex Garett of UCLA Extension Boot Camps
Student Success Manager
Jan 26, 2017
This course is extremely helpful in starting a career in software development by learning new material at a great pace and providing you with as many resources.
The class curriculum is flexible and can change dependent on student learning flow and the industry's evolving job requirements. The initial class schedule is based off the needed logic/material to learn basic web programming. As the course moves forward, the teachers and career advisors become open to any suggestions or ...
This course is extremely helpful in starting a career in software development by learning new material at a great pace and providing you with as many resources.
The class curriculum is flexible and can change dependent on student learning flow and the industry's evolving job requirements. The initial class schedule is based off the needed logic/material to learn basic web programming. As the course moves forward, the teachers and career advisors become open to any suggestions or changes that will help you to better understand material at your pace and/or increase your likelihood of finding a job. I really liked how students were able to vote on learning certain topics in the class and were given many opportunities for reviewing the material.
The teachers were also always readily available to help. In class, they are open ears majority of the time. They have a professional graps on the material and are very open-minded to the all levels of student experience. Although they have their own jobs outside of class, they do try their best to respond to their student's messages/inquiries.
The homeworks and projects were engaging and range in difficulty. Students are typically given two different levels of homework, beginner or advanced. You have the freedom to choose one or both, which helped many students choose their own pace. As someone who has learned a different programming language before, the advanced homework was definitely doable for even the beginner programmer. It all depends on your learning pace and work ethic.
The career curriculum is just as helpful as the class material. The career advisors are constantly providing students with online resources, in-class sessions and bringing in accomplished developers/businesses to provide insight. The career sessions taught the class how to write resumes, search for jobs, speak in interviews and everything in between. Gabrielle and Alex, the career advisors of our cohort, were always welcoming and never batted an eye to any of the students. They will take time out of their day to meet or speak on the phone about any comments, concerns or suggestions.
The best thing about the course was being able to balance it with a full-time job. There were times when my time was very limited, but the pace of the course really helped me keep up with the material. The course requires you to keep an open mind and to constantly keep working hard for what you want.
I highly recommend this course over many other bootcamps as they have shown sincere caring for their students. Whether you never studied programming before or have been doing it your whole life, there is definitely something you can learn from this course. As long as you work for it, you are guaranteed to achieve your own success.
Alex Garett of UCLA Extension Boot Camps
Student Success Manager
Jan 20, 2017
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