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TurnToTech

Average Rating4.25
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TurnToTech offers full-time, 10 to 16-week mobile development and part-time, 30 to 36-week cyber security bootcamps based in New York, New York. TurnToTech aims to produce well-rounded software engineers with a deep understanding of mobile platforms, app development, and cyber security.

Prospective students should be interested in technology – a little exposure to JavaScript or any high school or college programming course is also helpful. Applicants can fill out a short online form or call to express interest. If pre-training training is needed, TurnToTech offers 80 hours of free in-person prep-work to get ready for the full-time course. There is also a 40-hour, pre-training selection process for cyber security programs that is integral to ensuring that students are both technically capable and a professional fit for the cyber security jobs they seek.

The bootcamp has a recommended 12 weeks of coursework and 4 weeks of internship but students who move faster can spend more time on their internship. In the mobile courses, students will learn fundamentals and understanding end-to-end software development, including requirements management, system design, architecture, development, testing and software versioning. In cyber security courses, students will learn the fundamentals of cyber security, Python, penetration testing, ethical hacking, risk management, and more powered by HackerUSA.

When it comes to finding a job after graduation, TurnToTech has relationships with a growing number of potential employers, hosts corporate and startup job fairs, and works to help students build their networks by hosting several tech events each month.

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  • Daniel Parker
    Daniel Parker
    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania • Student • iOS Bootcamp • New York City
    Aug 12, 2015
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    Excellent experience at TurnToTech, highly recommended

    I’m currently learning iOS development in New York City at “Turn to Tech.”  I’ve had an excellent experience with this program and STRONGLY recommend it.  The reason why I chose it over the other ones I considered (and what I still especially like about it) is that it has a really positive and collaborative atmosphere.  

    The curriculum is designed so that you learn as you work your way through a series of increas...

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  • Christopher Abelt
    Christopher Abelt
    Managing Director • Graduate • iOS Development with Swift Part-Time (Evenings) • New York City
    Jun 01, 2015
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    iOS Using Swift (Part TIme)

    Part time (2X weekday evenings / 3 hours)  for 8 weeks. We learned the basics of the Swift programming language, including control flows, data types, functions & closures, classes & objectives, memory management using ARC.

    The class went on to look at closures, algorithms, modules and linking Objective-C and Swift.

    We used XCode to build simple iOS apps, using table views, collection views, and ways to access data. The class looked at creating maps, social ...

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  • Paola
    Paola
    Mobile Developer • Graduate • iOS Bootcamp • New York City
    Feb 09, 2015
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    Best decision I could have made!

    The iOS Bootcamp at TurnToTech is a thorough and challenging introduction to the fundamentals of iOS programming. Unlike other bootcamp courses, this one is entirely project-based. There is no formal instruction, so you can take the time you need to understand specific concepts. You're building apps from Week 1 that increase in complexity over time, but they are broken down in a way that makes concepts easier to grasp. You will be amazed by how much progress yo...

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  • Will Devon-Sand
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    iOS Bootcamp • New York City
    Feb 28, 2017
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    Great Place To Learn

    Turn To Tech has great teachers and staff memebers. Their cuuricum is always changing and is a great place to learn the fundamnetals of IOS/Android development. Their teachers are extremly knowledgable and their curriculum is self-paced. This maximizes learning for students because they are to slow-down or speed-up depending on their needs. As more Turn To Tech grads attain jobs, their job process has become easier. It is a tight knit community of well-intentioned individuals. I enjoyed my...

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  • Joe Shmo
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    Graduate • iOS Bootcamp • New York City
    Dec 27, 2016
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    Ehhhhh

    After a year and half since attending TurnToTech I wanted to share my thoughts of the experience I had.

     

    1. I urge you to read all the negative reviews here on coursereport and elsewhere because It seems like alot of the good reviews were made by TTT staff to make themselves seem more legit.

     

    2.  If your main priority is to get a job then TTT is NOT the place for you.  I suggest looking into other coding bootcamps such as General Assembly, Dev, or ...

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  • realbootcampreview
    Anonymous
    iOS Bootcamp • New York City
    Nov 30, 2016
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    An Honest Review That will probably make or break your decision to come here

    First, I'm going to break down the Rating System embedded in CourseReport in the most honest way possible. I want this review to be THE review to read before you consider TTT or any other bootcamp.

    At the end, I will talk about some of my own personal opinions and talk about the cost and worth of the school.

    So, lets just start off with what most people are concerned about. Jobs, right?

    Job Assistance & Instructors

    The job assistance at this boot...

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  • Mohammad
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    Graduate • Android Bootcamp • New York City
    Nov 29, 2016
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    You probably won't get a job but good place to understand mobile app development

    Before you spend $12,000 to attend TTT theres a few things you should consider.

    • Almost NOBODY finishes in 4 months. There are numerous students who are 8+ months in and still have not finished.  On average it takes 5-6 months for most sudents to finish the cirrculim then begin job search which itself is a long process.
    • Almost half of the students that started the bootcamp in my time there that finished dont have jobs.  TTT is a good place to learn about mobile ...
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    Teddy Angelus of TurnToTech

    COO and Career Counselor

    Dec 21, 2016

    To potential readers of this review
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    We take every review seriously and the same goes for this one. This review, while perhaps written with the right intentions, is not accurate in many areas. Let's clarify the situation:

    1. New space - Wrong assertion by reviewer - we moved out of our old location because the building was old, they didn't have fiber and HVAC was antiquated. We were glad that the lease was over after 3 years in that space.  It's ridiculous to suggest that rent was a factor in our move which puts into question why this reviewer even wrote this review. 

    Just as an FYI - we have plans to open several other locations next year. Why is this reviewer discussing real estate and rents? 

    We moved downtown to a much nicer and better-equipped building and floor in a Class A building with ample space, nice student lounge, classrooms and conference rooms.

    2.  Learning on your own - Yes, it's possible to learn, but that's like comparing apples and oranges when comparing online with an in-person bootcamp. Most education experts agree and we know first-hand that an online course cannot be a substitute for in-person teaching and mentorship.

    In fact, around 90% of the students, during their interview, said they tried to learn online and with friends but that didn't work. 

    Some even attended an online bootcamp before joining TurnToTech.  And around 10-15% of our students overall have had undergraduate degrees in CS/Engineering/Science (many from Ivy League or equivalent schools) or are experienced web or systems developers, but they still chose to attend our program. Friends and relatives of TurnToTech alumni keep coming to TurnToTech. Why is that?

    The answer is that because they like our project-based hands-on style of learning and they want the experience of solving problems and getting expert advice, collaborating with other students, working full days and weeks on their iOS or Android projects, having in-depth discussions with instructors and other knowledgeable students, working in a startup environment, participating in hackathons, getting plugged into the tech community and building their network - all of which is necessary to become employable. 

    In other words, they want to experience what life as a mobile software developer is. If you want this, you can come to us.

    3. On duration - Our curriculum is challenging but certainly doable. An example: we have a student who's two months into the program, and he's already on his last project. (To be fair to other students, he has an undergrad degree in CS). We've had several such students in the past, and there's a good fraction without a CS/Engineering/Science degrees just to be clear who finish on time. Those are also the ones who never miss a day and never come late and also end up getting jobs quickly. We say this to everyone who interviews with us and goes through the assessment. 

    4. Curriculum - Our curriculum is one of the most thorough in the bootcamp industry. We have practicing engineers and app developers as our curriculum advisors. Please do a one on one comparison with any four-month bootcamp, and you'll see. 

    a) The curriculum for Android is around 200+ individual coding assignments - both in core Java and Android, several writing assignments, various well-researched podcasts and at least three large Android projects. 

    b)  Our Android content is composed primarily out of starter projects which you download from our LMS. Assignments distributed as PDF's are a small fraction of what we do. And even so - PDF is as good a format as any. We fail to see the issue.

    And for all students, in addition to iOS or Android, every 2 months, we also run a lecture series on Data Structures and Algorithms which comes with an extensive set of assignments.

    5. Job Placement - We obviously take the career services very seriously, and we a) counsel each student (one-on-one) on their job search (resume prep, interview prep, coding challenges, scheduling of mock interviews, target lists of employers, introductions to companies that we have relationships with, etc.).  We give writing assignments to prepare for mock interviews. 

    b) We give as much advice on interviewing, resumes, skill gaps as a student wants. We reach out to everyone well before they're ready for this final step. 

    c) Between our senior team, we know a good percentage of the top recruiters in the city. 

    d) Every Friday, there's usually a coding challenge or a hackathon or something equivalent. And as noted earlier, we run a Data Structures and Algorithms lecture series once every two months. 

    All this is done to prepare students for interviews.

    By the way, these services are available even to alumni many of whom have landed jobs through us. Even students who graduated over two years ago regularly reach out to us.

    But at the end of the day, in an interview, a student has to perform individually - which is totally a function of what that person put in over the few months they spent at the bootcamp. 

    So hopefully we've clarified the situation. We understand that finding a job can get frustrating at times but absolutely everyone - whether you're at TurnToTech or  another bootcamp or even at the world's top engineering school - you still have to go through this job hunt. Some get lucky and get a job after their first interview and some have to work harder but if they persistent - they do succeed. We have many many examples.

    But we're glad that this reviewer has noted correctly that TurnToTech is a good place to learn mobile.
  • Rebecca Sentherly
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    Graduate • iOS Bootcamp • New York City
    Sep 27, 2016
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    If you are serious about learning mobile, TurnToTech is the only option.

    TurnToTech is mobile.  

    TurnToTech lives, eats, sleeps and breathes mobile dev. The other schools that claim to do mobile in NYC (Flatiron School and General Assembly) just recently started doing mobile. The Flatiron School is a web dev school that started teaching mobile to capitalize on the demand for mobile developers. It was clear to me, after meeting and interviewing with The Flatiron School and speaking to some of their students and alumni, that they are don't go deep in mo...

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  • Mike Jones
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    New York City
    Aug 15, 2016
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    Great experience if you have a positive attitude

    If your self motivated, disciplined, and desire to learn mobile development turntotech can be a great experience for you to get your foot in the door of the app world. It's important to not be a shy introvert and ask the instructors for help as well as other students, that's the whole point of going to ttt because you can take code courses online at home. Making friends with fellow students and having people like you in general will help you at ttt and your career after. It seems like the ...

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  • Anonymous
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    Graduate • New York City
    Jul 26, 2016
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    Confessions of a graduate

    For all prospective students - I urge you to read and focus on the negative reviews of any bootcamps. You need to understand that for every negative review there are a handful of unhappy students too scared to speak out - because they are still relying on that particular unsatisfying bootcamp to look for a job. This is not a blow towards any bootcamp. This is making it fair for the students to assess every factor. They are the ones investing thousands and thousands. They should not be misl...

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  • Sohail Budhawani
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    Software Engineer • Graduate • Android Bootcamp • New York City
    Jul 17, 2016
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    Software Engineer

    I finished Android full time course at TurnToTech in mid March. It took me approximately 4+ months to finish the course. I came to TurnToTech with very little computer science knowledge. I knew how to code and was familiar with Java but was nowhere close to being good enough to land a software engineer role.

    I started the program by spending about 2 weeks just learning the basic computer science concepts and after that started learning Android. The curriculum was designed so I wo...

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  • Adam Kornfield
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    Graduate • iOS Bootcamp • New York City
    Jun 21, 2016
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    Amazing experience

    Overall I had an incredible experience at TurnToTech.  Before joining an iOS bootcamp, I really shopped around for somewhere that would teach me Swift.  When I called, I talked to Teddy who immediately addressed my concerns and invited me in.  I met with him, Aditya, and Oren and they carefully answered all my in depth questions on Swift, the curriculum, and what I could expect. I was glad they gave the option of learning primarily either Objective C or Swift, and this put them apart from ...

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Updated October 20, 2016
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TurnToTech Alumni Reviews Summary

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FAQs

How much does TurnToTech cost?

TurnToTech costs around $12,000. On the lower end, some TurnToTech courses like iOS Development with Swift Part-Time (Evenings) cost $3,000.

What courses does TurnToTech teach?

TurnToTech offers courses like Android Bootcamp, Android Development Part-Time (Evenings), Cyber Security Risk Management, iOS Bootcamp and 3 more.

Where does TurnToTech have campuses?

TurnToTech has an in-person campus in New York City.

Is TurnToTech worth it?

TurnToTech hasn't shared alumni outcomes yet, but one way to determine if a bootcamp is worth it is by reading alumni reviews. 26 TurnToTech alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed TurnToTech on Course Report - you should start there!

Is TurnToTech legit?

We let alumni answer that question. 26 TurnToTech alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed TurnToTech and rate their overall experience a 4.25 out of 5.

Does TurnToTech offer scholarships or accept the GI Bill?

Right now, it doesn't look like TurnToTech offers scholarships or accepts the GI Bill. We're always adding to the list of schools that do offer Exclusive Course Report Scholarships and a list of the bootcamps that accept the GI Bill.

Can I read TurnToTech reviews?

You can read 26 reviews of TurnToTech on Course Report! TurnToTech alumni, students, and applicants have reviewed TurnToTech and rate their overall experience a 4.25 out of 5.

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