Le Wagon

Before joining LeWagon Bali, I was working for a strategy consulting firm in Zurich. Most projects were about Digital and Analytics topics, where I realized how much there is to learn in this area. I knew I wanted to study Data Science in my Master, which is why I thought a coding bootcamp would give me a head start and an additional skill. Little did I know that the 9 weeks would give me so much more than that!

In the first few weeks my day usually started at 6am with a 1.5 hour yoga session. At 9am, I had my first fresh coconut and was ready to soak up all the information our teachers would give us in the lessons. After the challenges, I was usually exhausted, but at the live code, full attention is needed to keep up. At the end of the day at around 7.30pm, we would all go for a quick beer and dinner and then drop into bed. This was such an exciting time because each day, I came home with a head full of new things I learned, all in an unbelievable speed. At this point, we were just getting to know each other as a group, and our driver did an amazing job at bringing us all together on exciting trips to beaches, islands and clubs. Good times!

After a few weeks, every piece I learned started to come together like a puzzle. This is the most amazing moment. Building your first app, getting something live on the web, working in a team with other people pushing code on GitHub. You feel like you’re a magician, its FIRE! By now, our batch was one big family, organizing parties and weekend excursions together. We were a very diverse group, ranging from 18 to 45 from all educational, geographical and job-backgrounds, all hanging out together. I think that is amazing and exactly how it should be.

After 7 weeks of hard work, we started to work on our own projects. This is when the real fun but also the real challenge starts. I realized that to be a great coder, you have to be able to do more than just code. Communication is key to a successful project and the biggest challenge was not the ability to do the things but to get a common understanding, vision and a working team together. At the end, this was the most important learning and I was SO proud to see the final result of our hard work.

Overall, LeWagon has been the most empowering experience of my education so far. It gave me the ability to make my ideas reality and showed me that I can learn anything. I will continue improving my current coding skills and, now that I’m programming in R, I can tell that it has been key for me to get the foundation from LeWagon. Last but not least, it gave me a network of amazing alumni, a group of friends I will always be able to visit around the world and nine weeks of pure fun in paradise. Big Thank You to Bali, our wonderful teachers #BOOM and the #Batch253!

O curso superou minhas expectativas.
O Le Wagon cumpre o que promete, e proporciona uma imersão no mundo da programação Web, com conceitos simples e muita prática. 
Após o curso, como empreendedor, me sinto seguro e preparado para enfrentar os desafios tecnológicos com os quais me deparo no dia a dia.
Recomendo para todos que desejam compreender cada etapa de desenvolvimento de um produto digital.

My background is in Marketing and Sales. I was freelance for Fahion Brands before Le Wagon including services like consultancy, sales, eCom and BZ developer basically in Barcelona.

During the months before my bootcamp I started to investigate and learn to code and I quickly realice it was much more creative and exciting I could expect. So, after some interviews I realice Le Wagon was exactly what I was looking for.

I wanted to develop new skills which could enrole me in new an different projects and learn another way of working / living.

I have a friend who hardly recommend me Le Wagon He also wanted to breakthrough his profesional carrier, become a full stack developer and After one year He was there.

Le Wagon creates a very good atmosphere. They create an amazing team between TA’s, Teachers and Students. A very different group of people (20 different nationalities), super interesting all focus on same goals and helping eachother to get there.

I’m from Uruguay and originally started my studies in the fields of marketing administration. After getting my Bachelor’s degree I started working in a startup company and saw it grow into a fast-food chain with more than 10 stores. Some years later I started to feel the need to change my career into something that I soon found to be my new passion… coding.

A friend of mine told me about these type of intensive programming courses so I researched for the best ones in Europe and I found Le Wagon. After some research I decided to enroll in Le Wagon Barcelona, so I could also get to know the city.

Two months later I’m starting my freelance career and also diving into teaching, I wouldn’t expect to be able to create the projects that we did in such a short time.

Le Wagon Barcelona not only brought me technical knowledge, but also the experience of developing products in teams, contacts and a lot of new friends. They gave me all the tools to have an awesome and enriching experience, and I’m really grateful that I took it.

It has been a bit under two months since I finished Le Wagon’s full-stack development Bootcamp, and my life has already changed drastically. I have been hired as a junior full-stack engineer and will be moving to Amsterdam for this new adventure.

I can honestly say that Le Wagon’s mantra, “Change your life, learn to code”, could not be better said. This Bootcamp has not only given me the tools needed to change professions, but it has also helped me discover a new passion I can turn into a career.
 
I would like to thank all the teachers and TA’s that made this possible as well as Gonzalo and Gus, who organized an amazing batch. I would also like to thank the Le Wagon network that put me in contact with my new job. My life really has changed by learning to code!

I was one of the students who deliberated for many months over whether to commit to a bootcamp. I finally made the decision to resign from my job and paid the deposit for the Le Wagon bootcamp. The experience exceeded my expectations, and I feel it has put me firmly on the right path in both my life and career. 

I would suggest to any new students that the prepwork is very important. Ensuring you fully understand the concepts in the prepwork will put you in good stead to absorb as much of the bootcamp content as possible, as the bootcamp is very intense and fast-paced. The first 3-4 weeks in particular can sometimes feel a bit overwhelming, especially for those like myself who came with no background in programming or computer science, but just making sure you get some good rest and sleep in the evenings and weekends goes a long way. 

I chose the Bali bootcamp, and could not have been happier with the location choice. You'll make many new friends from all corners of the earth in your batch, plus the Indonesian locals are all super friendly. The school building itself is pretty special. The views and sea winds produce a calm atmosphere and environment. On the horizon you can see the surfers riding the waves of Canggu on the one side, and on the other, (if it's a clear day) you have the spectacular view of two volcanoes.

For me, the teaching staff were the biggest factor in advancing my own personal development. They are jedi masters of programming, and they all have the patience of saints. When you're stuck either on a challenge or a feature of your project, the teachers are skilled at probing you for the answer instead of just giving you the solution. These instances slowly help you realise that you are actually understanding the concepts, but you just don't yet know how to express the solution entirely. The effect is a compounding of your confidence, which probably helps explain why as students we're able to build such complex projects in such a short amount of time during the project weeks. In addition, the Le Wagon style and system of teaching is very fine-tuned. The professionalism, and honesty in how they teach is impressive.

Le Wagon clarifies that the bootcamp not only teaches you web development, but it teaches you how to learn. This bit should not be understated, and having left the bootcamp a few weeks ago I am now really beginning to see the effects of this. In my own work post-bootcamp, I'm finding that I can find solutions to my own dev problems quite fast, much faster than when I was on the bootcamp itself. 

One of the reasons I chose Le Wagon is because of their emphasis on giving you the tools to build your own startup. Le Wagon does not claim to find you a job, however the amount of career and job resources they give you upon graduating, are almost as overwhelming as the first few days of code.

As an alumni, you also get lifetime access to all the course content plus more. As technology changes and advances, it's comforting to know that Le Wagon will continue to keep me up to speed.

After 3 years of work experience in a consulting firm, I wanted to change of universe, in order to discover web development which was murky for me. Le Wagon’s program seduced me and during those 9 weeks, I could discover, understand and learn some of the computer languages which are the hidden side of all websites and applications that surround us everyday. Le Wagon’s experience met perfectly my expectations, regarding the learning aspect and the environment.One year later, I have not kept on practicing coding but my experience at Le Wagon made the difference when applying to jobs. I got a new job as a CFO in a startup named Blackpills because the co-founders liked the fact that I was able to discuss with the technical team, and to understand their technical issues and challenges.

I was very interested in discovering how the most popular apps are built and how they work. My intention was being capable of making my own products one day, so I started self-teaching through online resources. However, I felt that if I really wanted to go deep, I would need some extra support.

I had heard miracle things about coding bootcamps so I checked those in my city and I started digging about their syllabus, methodology, and reviews from former students. The only thing holding me back was that I wasn’t sure whether Ruby was still worthwhile learning, but this site helped me to dispel my doubts isrubydead.com, so eventually, I considered Le Wagon because it offered me a proven methodology, international environment, and I realised Le Wagon was more than a bootcamp, it is a community.

I loved every single day during the bootcamp because you never get bored. You know that the next day you are going to learn the next piece of the puzzle you need to become a developer, so I was hooked.

Teachers and TA’s were fantastic, always keen to help and really passionate about coding. Le Wagon platform is awesome, it is so well developed and full of resources and you have granted access forever. It has become my best friend since I finished.

I am very happy now coding Ruby, but the most important thing you acquire during the bootcamp is the developer mindset. After that, you feel you can learn any other language much quicker, and you have plenty of resources and people to ask whenever you are blocked. It is now straightforward to follow the path that many people have traveled before.

For the new students, I would recommend that you prepare as much as possible before the bootcamp if you really want to make the most of it. It gets tough sometimes so try to be familiar with all the concepts you learn during the prep work, and you will enjoy 10x the experience!

Before coming to Le Wagon, I was in my final year of my Bachelor’s  degree at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. I had been studying information systems and finance for the past three years but felt link I was lacking one of the most important skills to work in the tech world: coding. In the hopes of becoming an IT consultant or work in the biggest tech companies, I felt like I had the business and strategy side notably though my internships but not understanding a single line of code was for me a huge weakness.

Therefore I stumbled on Le Wagon’s website through a simple Google search “coding boot camp” and was very quickly convinced that it was something I HAD to do. So many options in different cities around the world but I chose the Barcelona one given the amazing reviews and the experienced teachers and TAs (besides that who wouldn’t want to spend 2 months in Barcelona??  ).

A few months later I was able to create working web applications with features such as geo mapping and instant messaging. To this day, I still cannot believe how much I learned in such a short period of time.Along with 3 other amazing teammates, we were able to build a fully functional web messaging and file storing app called MyFam which uses a tag system to make retrieving files super simple. I really feel like I could have never achieved such an amazing end result without my boot camp experience. With that experience I am now on my way to achieve my goal and in the process of finding the roles I wanted but didn’t qualify for due to my lack of knowledge in app development.

I joined batch #276 in Bordeaux, France, and I enjoyed every part of it. It was intense, but it was worth it: we had passionate teachers, and we were all eager to learn as much as possible.

It's a very rich experience, that brought me what I was looking for: online courses are a good start, but they were frustrating because I felt I was lacking skills to see my ideas come to life. I had acquired basis in HTML/CSS/JS: I was able to make nice-looking static websites, but that was pretty much it. I knew nothing about database, geolocation, search/payment features, to mention just a few. I didn't even know what was CRUD, and even less what was a framework and how to work with it.

In Le Wagon, your daily learning rate just explodes: it's really addictive! I could never have learned that much on my own, whether on a technical point of view or in terms of good practice and tips. I really wish this bootcamp would last way longer!

Now I am technically capable of building a tech product from scratch, and I have both the overall view and the skills I need to keep self-training on the Internet in a much more efficient way than before Le Wagon.

To sum up: Le Wagon brings you skills and MUCH practice, but also a network, friends, and a strong foundation for a better self-learning. Conferences about tech are also really interesting and motivating.

I am very glad I went for it: it was worth a thousand times the personal and financial investment.

I have always been interested in learning programming. As I couldn’t leave my job for a long time I was looking for an intensive short – term course.

That’s how I found Le Wagon and lucky me, it was their first Madrid batch!! Fell in love with Ruby from the first sight! I didn’t have any previous knowledge and I will tell you that it is very important to do all the prep work they give you.

I can say that I have learned everything that I wanted, it was really challenging and a lot of fun. I feel now that I have enough knowledge to continue studying by myself.

And another but not less important thing is that I met a lot of wonderful people from all over the world!! So..would rather choose Le Wagon once again to enjoy people and studies.

100% recommended!

I always was interested in developing but I wasn’t sure I could do it. As I am in professional reconversion, I decided to give it a try and I discovered Le Wagon.

I had a lot of training before le wagon. So I can say that Le Wagon is the Best training center I’ve been. Teachers are very skilled and passionate by they job.

The other alumni was very motivated as well, and, together, we manage to build some awesome app that we could even imagine two month before.

If you are curious in coding and motivated, Le Wagon is the best place to go.

J'ai intégré la formation Fullstack Ruby du Wagon Bordeaux (batch #246, www.lewagon.com/fr/bordeaux)  du 8 avril au 7 juin 2019, sur les conseils d'un ami qui venait de finir sa session quelques temps auparavant.

Si j'ai décidé de postuler au Wagon c'était avant tout pour me reconvertir professionnellement et tenter de devenir développeur web en acquérant de nouvelles compétences techniques, et le moins que l'on puisse dire c'est que je n'ai pas été déçu ! La formation est intensive (42h / semaine pendant 9 semaines), très complète et très enrichissante. Vous apprenez les rouages du code en suivant un programme qui a largement fait ses preuves, ce qui donne un profond sentiment de confiance tous le long du parcours. Après avoir passé 7 semaines à emmagasiner du savoir, les 2 dernières semaines sont réservées à l'élaboration d'un projet (par groupe de 3/4) qui prend la forme d'une application web. Ce projet permet de concrétiser et de mettre à pratique tout ce dont on a appris depuis le début de la formation, et c'est à ce moment là que l'on comprend réellement pourquoi nous avons fait tout ce chemin !
La formation dispose de professeurs qui sont tous des modèles de pédagogie, d'accessibilité et de sympathie, ainsi que des professeurs assistants (des anciens élèves qui sont mis à disposition des nouveaux pour les aider à accomplir leurs exercices) dont j'ai la chance de faire parti aujourd'hui.
Les locaux, situés cours Balguerie Stuttenberg aux Chartrons sont spacieux, bien équipés et idéaux pour travailler dans de bonnes conditions.

En résumé, j'ai vécu au Wagon une excellente expérience qui m'a permis d'acquérir de nouvelles compétences et de faire des rencontres humaines très intéressantes.
Je recommande à quiconque qui est intéressé a devenir développeur web, product owner ou product manager à suivre ce cursus professionnel.

With an engineering background, I decided to complete the bootcamp at Le Wagon to develop my dev skills and launch my own startup. It gave me all the necessary skills to understand all the dev that we need for our product, to develop the MVP and launch it with paying customers. 
Moreover, I become very concern about the UX/UI of the product which is so important. 
With this amazing experience at Le Wagon, I have now all the skills that I was looking for and I had 9 incredible intensive weeks with a team of teachers always trying to help you as much as they can. 
I highly recommend this experience, which was amazing ! 

Before Le Wagon, I had mostly worked in hospitality. I had been a manager, chef, bartender, waiter, working in restaurants, pubs, nightclubs, festivals, cafes and street food. However, at the age of 35, I decided it was time for a change, to find a career where I wouldn’t be on my feet all day long, and also be creative. That’s when I looked into the idea of becoming a developer. I heard about the existence of coding bootcamps through a friend, and after a lot of investigation I settled upon Le Wagon in Barcelona. Needless to say, I’m very happy with my choice!

It was without a doubt the best educational experience I’ve had, and only further fuelled my enthusiasm for coding. Besides learning how to build web applications and solve problems through code, I have made some friendships and connections that will undoubtedly endure the test of time. Project weeks were a particularly highlight for me, where my team and I built a complex web-chat and file-storage application. Now that the course is finished, I am still enjoying coding, and am adding even more features to our project.

Thanks a lot Le Wagon!

I always felt like I would need to have a creative career. I studied fine art and illustration but as much as I appreciated the background it gave me in lateral thinking, I still felt like I wanted to do something more practical and disciplined. I began teaching as an English teacher and I found that it gave me that discipline I was looking for, as well as being very gratifying. I found that my favourite part of doing a lesson was planning it, creating new materials and discovering new apps or new ways of laying out lessons that were more interesting or effective. It was fun playing around with little pieces of paper, and gave me the opportunity to try out what would work with my students. However, I still really wanted to create something that felt real and tangible out of these experiments.

Two of my brothers were already working as programmers, so I suppose that I realised more quickly than other people might have that programming was a way to create something from this that felt a little bit more real. I was already living in Barcelona, so I was also already conscious that people in Barcelona live pretty well! It’s also very easy to make a lot of connections because people here are very helpful and there’s a lot going on. There are often people who want to collaborate with you or would like to show you how to do something and learn a little bit from you as well.

The teachers in Le Wagon were great, I suppose mostly because everyone has a good mentality about growth. It felt very fresh. The different people on the teams all brought something unique and useful, but it never felt like I was being forced to think one way or another. The most common line of thought among everyone was that they were proud of the work that had been done on the Le Wagon materials (which are incredibly well-researched and tested) and of how their own efforts were layering on top of that work and refining it. They were also all very kind, which is important when you are learning something intensively!

After finishing high school, I worked for two years in banking, where I first got introduced to topics like digital banking. It wasn’t until I started my undergraduate studies in sociology, politics and economics that my curiosity about the interplay between ongoing technical developments and the socio-economic changes, grew. I wanted to deepen my understanding of how those technologies are created and programmed. Starting the Bootcamp, Batch #269 in Oslo, was a very spontaneous decision but I am so happy I joined Le wagon over the university summer break.

Lewagon gave me a perfect introduction to the tech world. The program is so well thought out that after the 9 weeks, you can put specific topics into perspective and get a better understanding of the bigger picture. Coding always seemed so abstract and overwhelming to me, that I didn’t know where to start learning. But after the Bootcamp, I began to realize how broad tech actually can be, and I was surprised to see how many diverse job opportunities within the field of coding exist.

Every day of the Bootcamp was very intense, full of new information, impulses, vocabulary, and I always wished to have a pause button, to quickly read up on topics/things. It was challenging, and at certain points frustrating. But at the same time, it gave me a lot of energy: the moment it ‘clicks’ is extremely rewarding. The support from the teachers and team colleagues motivated me to improve.

Teachers at Le Wagon do not just teach the subjects but also guide you on how to approach new tech challenges along the way. At some point you start to realize patterns and improve your problem solving skills.

The last two weeks (project weeks) were the most intense but looking back also the most fun and rewarding. I was really intrigued by the idea of pitching own ideas and creating something entirely from scratch. We definitely experienced many up and downs in the team and it was extremely helpful to have all the teachers by our side checking up on our progress and helping us to structure and scope our work. I ended up making compromises and successfully resolving unexpected challenges.

Having a space of so many kind, motivated, and interesting people really made this a unique experience for me. I was amazed by the level of motivation and the efforts of the staff to help you improve. You get a chance to fully focus on your own personal development. I feel like this interdisciplinary learning approach over 9 weeks gives you a guidance and a very stable foundation of knowledge, network, and experiences.

2 months after finishing the bootcamp, all I can say is it was a life-changing experience! In the beginning of this year, I was in a gap year before going to college, I was lost about my future. My dad told me about Le Wagon and I did not understand at first, I thought coding was useless. I did some more research then, and it changed my mind. Already on the first week of bootcamp, I knew instantly it was something special. During the 9 weeks, I met wonderful people and learned much more than I could have ever imagine. We build one app from scratch only in two weeks, putting all our new knowledge in practice. Now, because of Le Wagon, I know that I want to learn more about coding and that technology is my future.

It's been two months since I finished Le Wagon’s bootcamp in Milan and all I can say about it is that it was a life changing experience! Before attending the bootcamp I had never written a single line of code, I had a background in Design but I wanted to learn something new and useful.

Every day is extremely intense, you have a lecture in the morning and you spend the rest of the time coding and making mistakes. It may seem boring but it's not, it's challenging and if you struggle there are always teachers and TAs ready to help. Also, everyday you are paired with another student so you are never alone.

After you learn the basics you star working on projects, everything is really well-structured so you never feel like anything it's impossible plus you are working with a bunch of skilled and motivated people and that helps too.

 And then comes the demo day, the most beautiful yet saddest day of the bootcamp. You are there with your new best friends showcasing all your work...but that's the last day!

These 9 weeks went by so fast, I met a lot of incredible people from all over the world and I've learned more than I could have ever imagined. If you're considering doing this bootcamp...just do it, you won't regret it.

If you told me a year ago that I would be a junior developer at a fintech company and helping people learn how to code, I wouldn’t have believed you, but here I am!

This time last year I was lost. As a trained journalist I had become disillusioned with the industry and I wanted out, in short, I wasn’t happy.

I wanted to move into a more commercial role, and the natural transition from journalism would be into another content based profession, marketing was my answer.

So, in August of 2018, my cv had been to every corner of the internet, screaming for attention.

And a notification from Angel List would change everything, a coworking business in Bali wanted me to speak with them about a possible job!

What?! Bali? Surely I couldn’t go and live in Bali, that would be too good to be true, right? But it worked out and the next thing I knew I was on a flight to the famous island, for a marketing job that I still knew wasn’t right for me…

Coworking spaces by nature attract some interesting people. Remote workers living their best lives, away from the hustle and bustle of city life. Where I worked, there was a lot of people looking at screens of text that I didn’t understand… code.

As a naturally intuitive person, I couldn’t walk around my office and not understand what these people were doing, it seemed on a different level and I felt helpless that I couldn’t read it.

So I reached out to a close friend of mine who himself was a software engineer and I pleaded with him to teach me. He obliged and my coding journey started, one Sunday afternoon in an Ubudian cafe.

It started with the basics, HTML and CSS, a coder’s bread and butter.

Ok, I admit, I became a little obsessed. I found this stuff way too cool and my inner nerd was starting to take me over.

I knew this was it, this was something that I knew would both interest me and provide me with a livelihood. Two weeks later, I quit my job, there was a coding bootcamp starting in Canggu that I needed to attend.

I had heard of Le Wagon around Bali, I’d seen the little wagon logo but had never really known what it was, but from deeper research I knew this was the best one I could choose.

I had two weeks to finish the prerequisite coursework before the bootcamp started, this didn’t serve my nerves well as I was more confused than anything else, but my motivation remained and the start date rolled up.

I was about to embark on the best educational experience of my life.

Setup day, a day for everyone to meet each other and prepare their systems for the two months we were about to put them through, Windows people (me) brace yourself for issues (and tears), Mac users, get ready for an easy day!

The first chunk of knowledge we had to absorb was Ruby, the key programming language Le Wagon teaches, and one that fits behind the scenes on Rails (all will be revealed) and what a beautiful language it is.

It is regarded as a beginner friendly language because of how expressive and flexible it is. You can solve the same problem in a variety of ways, no wonder why programmers around the world still love it.

Arrays, hashes, iterations, blocks, all words and concepts that will be drilled into you until you can’t sleep without thinking of them. When I heard the bootcamp was immersive, I didn’t realise it would be to this extent, but it really is the best way to learn such initially difficult concepts.

Next up, OOP, or Object Orientated Programming, the paradigm on which Ruby-on-Rails is built. Something about cakes and cake moulds? Le Wagon has great ways of simplifying at a high level core programming concepts and OOP was for me, one of the most fascinating parts of the bootcamp.

Here, we also built our first basic applications, sure only through the terminal, but to build something you can use and interact with after just two weeks coding, pretty cool.

Following OOP, we delved into the realm of databases, considering database design and SQL, a veteran language used to interact with and manage databases.

We looked at how this all pieced together and worked with web applications, faking, migrating and generating data. Data is king, and here we learnt how to manipulate it.

After four days of databases, we moved onto the sexy part, a week and a half of front end languages, HTML, CSS and Javascript. Everything that creates the part of a web application that you can see, in short, the stars of the show.

Here is an interesting part of the bootcamp as you start to see the people with a real design nous excelling and enjoying themselves, which not being one of them, was nice to see. Front end is hard and I gained a new found respect of front end developers.

Rails is the next topic to cover, and you bring the knowledge of Ruby you acquired a few weeks prior to the table. Rails is a programming framework that makes setting up a fully functioning web application relatively easy. Everything becomes connected in these weeks and lightbulb moments begin to appear!

Then, the big daddy, the crescendo of the bootcamp and the project weeks. Everything has been built up to these weeks, the drilling, the confusion, the frustration. We were now released in teams of four to design and build the projects of our dreams and imaginations.

First, we spent a week working on an Air BnB clone, this is to learn how to work well in our teams and practice building a fully functional web application.

This week proves significant, as you make mistakes that you don’t want to repeat over the main project fortnight. Also we give a presentation on the Friday which prepares us for the finale of the bootcamp, Demo Day!

The last two weeks are intense, but also extremely fun. Using GitHub and working in a team of four and having stand up meetings every morning, these days are when you start to feel like a developer. Bringing the skills you have learnt, and applying them to something tangible and real.

I personally enjoyed the last two weeks the most out of the whole bootcamp, I love working in teams and to see something becoming a reality through your own know how was extremely rewarding.

My team built a cycling app for cycle tourists to plan routes, drop locations and connect with fellow tourists. Over the two weeks we messed up, we backtracked, we worked our socks off and as demo day approached, we grew extremely confident of the MVP we had designed and built.

Demo day came at us fast and this is the swan song for all the teams, a night of free flowing drink and presentations said with pride. It really was a night to remember and some of the projects that were on display were incredibly impressive.

Amongst them, a trading app, a crypto currency balancer and a yoga studio management tool to name just a few.

Now, as I start a new job as a junior developer just two months after I graduated, I look back on Le Wagon not realising how much it changed me at the time.

Le Wagon has taught me the skills to make me in demand in an exciting and ever changing tech industry, the real hard work for me starts now but without Le Wagon this would have never been a reality.

I still know nothing in the grand scheme of things, but I know more than many. Pretty much everything I write doesn’t work initially, I still break things, I still see code that makes me scared and I don’t understand. But I can do things that someone with no programming experience would think was magic.

Le Wagon has equipped me with the tools to dissect code, to break it down and finally make sense of it. It has given me the foundation on which to build and develop.

The thing with coding is, you always get lost, but you work to find yourself again, I’m still as lost as I was a year ago, just now I’m lost in a codebase.

If you are questioning whether to embark on a bootcamp like Le Wagon, my advice, do it and think about it later, commit yourself to the cause, it really will change your life.