University of Miami Boot Camps

Life gave me a second opportunity to enroll in a web development bootcamp after I passed up the experience during the pandemic in 2020. This time I would proudly be returning to my Alma Mater to completely adjust the sails of my academic and professional career. 
After these six months of rigorous coursework and learning to be comfortable with discomfort, I feel the most immense sense of gratification and accomplishment. This bootcamp not only offered me a high quality learning experience, but introduced me to wonderful individuals who will remain life long friends. I had absolutely ZERO coding experience and the team behind the program fueled me with confidence to complete. Since completing, I have been able to shift career paths into the world of tech and the exciting future ahead. I 100% recommend taking the dive into this opportunity.

My name is Jaime Montero, and just like you reading this post, I was trying to find out some information, feedback or reviews about this University of Miami Coding Bootcamp. I didn't find much, but at the end I decided to give it a try.

BEST DECISION EVER!.

My personal experience through this Coding Boot Camp was excellent, and that's what I'm sharing here.

I graduated in October 2018 from the FULL STACK WEB DEVELOPMENT program, started in May 2018 (6 Months).

Halfway through the program I decided to offer my services as a Web Developer; built 2 websites for free and then I got a paid client. At this point, 3 months are enough for you to start building beautiful websites, building up portfolio, and hopefully getting your first clients.

Before graduation I got an offer from the company I currently work at.

The program covers a lot ... I understand, “a lot” it's a very broad and abstract term, but, I mean it, A LOT; from the very basic HTML to functional React Web Applications, from your command prompt to data manipulation and databases, from your first lines of code “Hello World” to dynamic, interactive, responsive and potentially profitable $$$ real world projects.

Career services are great, they will absolutely help you to become employer-ready-competitive, to be more noticeable, and most important, they will guide you through the job search process. 

Instructors are experienced, very knowledgeable and fun, they're in the industry, usually in different fields. which is great, and you get to learn a lot from them.

Thanks to this University of Miami Coding Bootcamp my life has changed for good, it's incredible how 6 months of hard work can transform everything, I got hired by a great company, in a role that I really enjoy and most important, where I'm able to apply everything I have learned.

This experience is just the beginning of a career full of awesomeness, professional growth and tons of lines of code. SUPER RECOMMENDED!

You really have to take it seriously, put the hard hours, study, practice, practice, practice, practice a lot, research, network, go the extra mile!.

University of Miami Coding Bootcamp is a starting point for all those who wish to learn a new career. The program includes the Front-End with a wide deployment of cutting edge technologies such as React, after creating solid bases in html, css, javascript, and the most used frameworks, as well as innumerable practices in the use of the APIs of the most big companies.

The second part of the program covers in depth the development with the MERN stack, with MongoDB as database technology, NodeJS and Express supporting the backend and the integration with the React from the front-end.

The program is taught by professors with more than 10 years of experience and an extra support of technical assistants.

The UM Coding Camp was definitely an experience in which many lessons were learned. First of all, the curriculum was extremely challenging for all the students; even ones with prior coding experience. The timeframe alotted to learn all the information taught was the predominant obstacle most of the students faced. Also, the majority of the data taught had remnants of JavaScript; therefore, anyone wanting to undertake this course would be best served to know a bit (then eventually a lot) about JavaScript. With that said, even though we were all faced with a roller coaster of emotions due to the demands of this course, our guardian and Program Coordinator Chavon was absolutely amazing with her never-ending support, leadership, and understanding. Without her, most of us would probably not finish this course, myself included. Our instructor Jonathan Fields was absolutely fantastic; very knowledgeable and always willing to help. Last but not least, our TA Jonathan Morales was always there for us; always giving a helping hand; always gracious.

I always had a passion for this career and before I found this Boot Camp it looked like an impossible dream.  These years of Covid pandemic made us reflect more in depth (to many of us) about priorities and about our dreams.  I started searching about data analytics courses early this year and I found this University of Miami Bootcamp. It was exactly what I was looking for.  I did not have any experience in coding, so it opened a fascinating new world to me, full of possibilities.  Every module is so worthy with must-have tools.  It might be challenging sometimes but there is a great student support.  Anyways, the best advice is to come to the online classes with the material studied and the exercises done to get most of the office and instruction hours.  This boot camp set a before and after for me.  Amazing!

I decided to take a coding boot camp to learn Python because I am an entrepreneur with ideas related to Fintech.  I felt it was important for me to have an understanding of the topic deep enough that I could know what skills I would need in developers I may look to hire for projects.  Since I already have a six figure career for me this was not about finding a new career, but about staying current in a rapidly changing world.  I realize now I am probably one of few 50 year old senior non-tech executives that know Python and other skills I have learned.  

While a background in financial services will help when starting a Python boot camp at UM, I don’t think it’s a prerequisite for success.  The key to success and starting to “get” how to code is interacting with your instructor, your tutors which are included in tuition, as well as asking others in the cohort to help.  

Overall I think the tuition was a good value given the length and quality of this boot camp. I would highly recommend for those folks who are curious, want to learn how to code, but are intimidated with the subject matter.  Yes, it will take up a lot of free time, but it will be worth it.

I came from a totally different word of work. I have been a professional tattoo artist for 18 years and worked in that industry for 21 years. Through the trials of COVID, I was forced to close my tattoo shop down and had to say good by to my business. In the first months, I struggled to think about the best way to earn a living in a world where I couldn’t come in contact with people as that is the nature of tattooing. Often times you find yourself very close to clients for hours and the new guidelines and regulations from the state of Florida, forced my business into a 4 1/2 months shut down. Unfortunately, I couldn’t recover. I needed to adapt and fast. The need to change professions, was on my mind day and night. I couldn’t possibly wait it out and hope that COVID would be a best case scenario. I had always had the joy of doing something I loved and didn’t want to compromise that. I wanted to stay being creative. After all the new found time at home with my kids, I knew that working from home would be something I’d enjoy. Through much digging and soul searching, I realized in the previous years, though my oldest daughters interests, I too had become interested in coding. As a gift, our family had gotten her a game called Osmo, which is an introduction to code game,  for kids and I had shared a good time with her playing it. I understood that my introduction to code was very elementary and started to follow along, some tutorials and downloaded the latest version of python as to start thinking  about the many topics to cover. I read about algorithms and data structures and many, many languages and topics that led to getting discouraged about learning  on my own. At this point I’d been weeks into a rabbit hole of research  and I quickly realized, that coding would be something I’d enjoy doing for a living and wasn’t something I felt I couldn’t learn on my own. I started to looked at details of many boot camps to figure out  how I could accomplish the task, of having enough skills required, to make a living in such a competitive field. Many of the camps and ways to get the info in a way that I could afford and digest were mostly out of town. Finally, I found in my own home town, Miami, the university of Miami offered a full stack development bootcamp! University of Miami, full stack development bootcamp is fast paced, informative, and really hands on. It has been really great with assistance from teachers and tutors. Our professor and his assistant are both energetic and informative and they are really good about making sure we get the help and instructions we need as we move through the different projects. They’re respectful and humorous and it makes for a really active class. The students are really helpful towards each other which makes for a great learning environment. I would recommend this bootcamp to anyone looking for a career change or just looking to sharpen your web development skills if you’ve been doing the “self taught “ route and have some gaps in the info you’ve encountered. This a great camp for anyone looking to get into the world of web development!