codEd

Alex S has a point. You will meet motivated individuals in this course. Anyone willing to pay 2500 bucks and put in 3 months of their time is going to be motivated.
But it isn’t a question of motivation. Is 3 months and 2.5K invested into this course the best way to go about learning to code? NO. Far from it. Not even close. It’s crystal clear.
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events, do online training, or join one of the more expensive/​effective bootcamps like General Assembly (which actually provide measurable results). The other insightful reviewers provide a ton of better options. But this class will be wasted effort, time, and $.

The truth is when I started this boot camp I didn’t care about coding. I just wanted to leave my job where there is no collaboration and ideas are squandered. The talent I have been told I had, being wasted.
I found people who wanted to collaborate and best of all, who are goal oriented non-​coders who want to be coders. I was hooked by the fourth class to continue the boot camp and tobecome a front end web developer.
The classes are hard and there are definitely things missing (syllabus, structured learning, and more staff.) What I can say is, that I have learned how to truly begin my coding journey because of this class. The people, I still work with now after the class will all become developers because of this class. I may have not become a developer yet but my hardwork will pay off. I won’t deny the negative reviews from others but to deplore it as something to avoid is not right.
If you are dedicated, learn fast, know minimal HTML, and most importantly know your way around a computer, then this could actually work for you. You have to be able to put the time outside of class to succeed and know that there is a lot more to coding and landing a job then knowing the basics. Have the passion to overcome anything.
If you want more information on the program as it was when I took it I can be found @0to1coder.

Pros: Cost of tuition, hands-​on, only two 3-​hour classes during weeknights
Cons: Too good to be true, disorganized, no curriculum/​syllabus, lack of resources or supplemental materials, overpromised and underdelivered
Summary: You will not gain the necessary knowledge or skills to become a gainfully-​employed coder after this class.
I paid $ 2450 for the codEd App Factory Bootcamp which ran 1÷7÷14 — 4÷2÷14. I am a millennial who grew up with the internet, went to HTML summer camps when I was a teen, and have always been self-​taught when it comes to programming. The following quote summarizes codEd as a business:
«Many businesses fail because they consistently promise more than they can actually deliver: the promises might get them a lot of new business, but the lack of actual results won’t bring them return business, which is what counts. They might get by with more and more promises for a while, but eventually too many customers will hear of their bad practices and they’ll go out of business.» — Tom Peters, «In Search of Excellence»
codEd’s App Factory Bootcamp was a profoundly negative experience, and I can confirm B.A. and martha g.‘s reviews. Before becoming a student at the bootcamp, I had been teaching for almost four years — two with the Peace Corps and two at the School of Visual Arts. I have a lot of patience and empathy for teachers, especially young ones. The behavior of codEd’s instructor was disappointing and frustrating, to put it lightly.
There is no actual syllabus or curriculum, and the structure of the course looks good on the website, but is disorganized and chaotic in actuality. Resources — like each classes’ live video stream and online course documents — were either uploaded 6 – 8 weeks late or never share at all. The full-​time staff consisted of three positions, however during this winter bootcamp the turnover saw new employees in two of those positions almost monthly. This prevented any suggestions or feedback from being solicited or responded to, and well as severe miscommunication between staff and students.
Watch the videos on coded’s vimeo account. The instructor is knowledgeable, charismatic, and enthusiastic. However, this class is not his main priority, and the numerous side projects he involves himself with demand the majority of his time and energy. He does not do any lesson planning or prepare his class ahead of time, and this lack of attention is an overwhelming disservice to the students.
Conclusion: My experience was a waste of money, and a painful waste of time. I regret not spending that time, energy, and money on a codinging class that under-​promises and over-​delivers.

Sadly, I can confirm the review B.A. wrote about this school and this experience. I was another student in this same class. Coded (I’m not going to bother with the fancy spelling) was disorganized, hot (sometimes not enough air conditioning in a midtown NYC building – really strange), and the wi-​fi failed. Regularly. And it was a profound disappointment. The teacher is smart, funny, profoundly disorganized, and promises a lot in the beginning. Don’t buy it.
While Mike had an outline for the class, there was no formal syllabus, no prep, no «here’s what we’re doing next week, so download this now and play with it.» I have taken (good) $ 90 classes where there was more preparation. There was no teaching assistant – also something you will find in other more reputable classes of this size.
The class was also advertised with promises of videos of each of the classes. This *did* happen in the beginning. And then, with no explanation, they stopped. I asked three times for the videos before they appeared — not in the place where we had told they would be, and weeks after the class had actually occurred.
These things became crucial as the class became more difficult, and the lack of prep began to cut into our class time, while we waited –during class – to download a program or a piece of software – which might or might not work, once we got it downloaded. Or tried to locate files or databases on a web hosting service that Mike had recommended… but later told us was «a piece of sh! t» that he had only used once before, but was good enough for *us* because we were building a Minimum Viable Product.
The time wasting grew and grew. If you were late, Mike had the rest of the class applaud you. Or quack like a duck. He also told me, right before a makeup class, that he was planning to get drunk while he taught. The getting drunk thing came up a few times. Maybe it was a joke. I hope so. What wasn’t a joke was Mike pulling us onto *his* projects, or leaving class in the middle to do something.
Learning to code is hard. Learning to code without structure or assistance is almost impossible. Let me add that I *work* on the web, among good developers. I have been a teacher for 30 years, and I have a lot of friends who are doing amazing work in technology. It doesn’t have to be this way. Don’t buy the «this is is bootcamp, there are winners and losers» nonsense. That is, I suspect, what you might hear to explain why the class went from 30 participants at the beginning to about 10.
The students themselves are amazing, from lots of great backgrounds, generous with their time and knowledge. As we turned into teams to make apps, that’s what kept me going – for a while.
I am profoundly disturbed that there are plans to expand Coded to other places. That would be a terrible mistake.

cOdEd is a fly-​by-​night programming «bootcamp» run by Mike De’Shazer of 140 Ventures and Emily Hosoya out of a shared office suite in 1120 6^th Ave. I was a student in his class beginning January 2014 and paid a tuition cost of $ 2450. It’s hard to express how big of a disappointment this class really was. Over thirty incredibly bright and interesting students started this January. Eleven weeks later, most of the class has dissolved and just a handful of students continue to attend.
There are so many things wrong with this program that it’s hard to include them all, but I’ll try to break it down.
Curriculum: De’Shazer advertised that his class is similar to other bootcamps like GA and App Academy, but really the course provides just a shallow overview of sloppy code. You can do better with any number of free online tutorials and
study groups. There is no syllabus. There are no reading materials. There is no homework. If you’re considering taking a class to add structure and guidance to your programming education, you will not find it here. It’s non-​existent.
The goal by the end of class is to build an app with your team and submit it to the App Store and Google Play. But we wasted week after week just discussing our project ideas instead of learning to code, and then with 2 weeks left before our submission deadline began a frantic rush to build something, anything. It’s a lesson in how not to manage a project of any kind in any industry.
Facilities: c0dEd operates out of a shared office suite in midtown. There are two classrooms available, which apparently are reserved in advance by different companies that use the offices. Mike repeatedly f’ed up or never made the reservations and as a «backup plan» crammed the class into undersized, overheated rooms without enough desk space or electrical outlets. I asked the secretary why he always failed to reserve in time. She told me the classroom that night had been reserved by another company over a year in advance. Mike just put in a last minute requests, and never bothered to check whether the classrooms were actually available.
Job Placement: At the start of class, we had a dedicated recruiter who also enrolled as a student. About midway through the course, Mike snapped at her in front of the class, and she quit soon after. Now he’s touting his resume hosting website as his job placement program. It’s just a site to post your resume, which he built while he probably should have been teaching.
Instructor: De’Shazer is a talented speaker and salesman, a decent programmer, and a horrible educator. He is sharp but arrogant with very little empathy toward his students. His history is anywhere from ambiguous to intentionally disguised. He claims this is his 4^th bootcamp, but I’ve only seen video from one other class, and he originally told me it was his 3^rd. He claims that students from his bootcamps have developed several apps, but it appears that he might have programmed these apps himself. Everything he does seems geared toward self-​promotion. Students and staff are dropping from his class like flies, and in the face of this what does he do? He’s expanding! That’s insane!
tl;dr — In my opinion the {c}0dEd bootcamp run by Mike De’Shazer should be avoided at any price. {c}0dEd may cost only 25% of the tuition for other legitimate bootcamps, but don’t be fooled — you’ll receive far less for your money in return.