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Author	SarahInLaLaLand
Comment	Just correcting some inaccuracies in the above comment. The pre-coursework is pretty basic, compared to the actual course. There are opportunities for support during this time. Codecademy has some free courses that are an excellent way to dip a toe into coding, before committing to the CodeClan bootcamp. The course is very intensive. I fell behind a few times, as did other classmates. Whenever I flagged it up, I had a one-to-one session with one of the instructors and I was brought up to speed. You don’t need to be able to code. I hadn’t done any coding before I started the pre-coursework. It’ll be much easier if you’ve got some experience (I.e. the free Codecademy courses mentioned above), but I managed without. You must have done the course a good few years ago if you were learning Ruby. I did it in late 2021 and had a wildly different experience to you. Certainly wasn’t learning any out of date tech. I still use the languages I learned in my day to day job. The class, I found, goes at the pace of the slowest person there, not the best. But that only happens if you ask for something to be explained at the time of you not understanding. I got caught out by this a few times, as I didn’t want to slow down the class. The instructors WANT you to understand. They WANT you to pass. Ask a dozen times for them to explain it, and they will. I studied in the evenings and weekends, as did most of my classmates so not sure anyone was having relaxed, free weekends! The homework that we got every weekend, took hours to complete. A CodeClan student is never in danger of getting kicked off the course for underperforming or for struggling. This course is intensive. It’s really fucking hard if you’re a newbie to coding like I was. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But the support is there, if you ask for it. I cannot fault the instructors I had. I work with a few former instructors in my current job and you couldn’t meet devs who are more committed to learning and helping others to learn. If one of your classmates learned a certain language and then applied for a job using a different language, then that’s not unusual. Devs learn a whole host of different languages as one language won’t be suitable for all projects. It’s usual to learn a new language on the job. Tech is an ever changing industry and you need to roll with the changes, otherwise you aren’t going to survive in the industry. It’s almost laughable that you expect to learn one or two languages on a course and that’s it for the rest of your career! There are loads of CC alumni working at my office and they are all really talented devs. The reason why these companies have these employment partnerships with CC is because the graduates are really good. Nobody is hiring a CC grad in anything other than a junior position. They know what they’re getting, a solid foundational background in programming, and that’s why they hire CC grads again and again. I had to laugh about the call centre jobs comment. This is just a bonkers lie. I used the CC job board and it’s all junior dev jobs in huge companies/organisations like Scottish Govt, Barclays, Tesco, ResDiary, Baillie Gifford, to name a few. I interviewed with about 6 different companies, all from CC internal connections. It’s not telephone jobs lololol TLDR Don’t take advice from someone who gave up halfway through, and who is so bitter they’ve got a dedicated Reddit account copy & pasting the same copypasta whenever someone asks about Code Clan.
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Just correcting some inaccuracies in the above comment.

The pre-coursework is pretty basic, compared to the actual course. There are opportunities for support during this time. Codecademy has some free courses that are an excellent way to dip a toe into coding, before committing to the CodeClan bootcamp.

The course is very intensive. I fell behind a few times, as did other classmates. Whenever I flagged it up, I had a one-to-one session with one of the instructors and I was brought up to speed.

You don’t need to be able to code. I hadn’t done any coding before I started the pre-coursework. It’ll be much easier if you’ve got some experience (I.e. the free Codecademy courses mentioned above), but I managed without.

You must have done the course a good few years ago if you were learning Ruby. I did it in late 2021 and had a wildly different experience to you. Certainly wasn’t learning any out of date tech. I still use the languages I learned in my day to day job.

The class, I found, goes at the pace of the slowest person there, not the best. But that only happens if you ask for something to be explained at the time of you not understanding. I got caught out by this a few times, as I didn’t want to slow down the class. The instructors WANT you to understand. They WANT you to pass. Ask a dozen times for them to explain it, and they will.

I studied in the evenings and weekends, as did most of my classmates so not sure anyone was having relaxed, free weekends! The homework that we got every weekend, took hours to complete.

A CodeClan student is never in danger of getting kicked off the course for underperforming or for struggling.

This course is intensive. It’s really fucking hard if you’re a newbie to coding like I was. If it was easy, everyone would do it. But the support is there, if you ask for it. I cannot fault the instructors I had. I work with a few former instructors in my current job and you couldn’t meet devs who are more committed to learning and helping others to learn.

If one of your classmates learned a certain language and then applied for a job using a different language, then that’s not unusual. Devs learn a whole host of different languages as one language won’t be suitable for all projects. It’s usual to learn a new language on the job. Tech is an ever changing industry and you need to roll with the changes, otherwise you aren’t going to survive in the industry. It’s almost laughable that you expect to learn one or two languages on a course and that’s it for the rest of your career!

There are loads of CC alumni working at my office and they are all really talented devs. The reason why these companies have these employment partnerships with CC is because the graduates are really good. Nobody is hiring a CC grad in anything other than a junior position. They know what they’re getting, a solid foundational background in programming, and that’s why they hire CC grads again and again.

I had to laugh about the call centre jobs comment. This is just a bonkers lie. I used the CC job board and it’s all junior dev jobs in huge companies/organisations like Scottish Govt, Barclays, Tesco, ResDiary, Baillie Gifford, to name a few. I interviewed with about 6 different companies, all from CC internal connections. It’s not telephone jobs lololol

TLDR
Don’t take advice from someone who gave up halfway through, and who is so bitter they’ve got a dedicated Reddit account copy & pasting the same copypasta whenever someone asks about Code Clan.