The program was 9 weeks of remote work (called Phase 0) and then 9 weeks of intensive onsite training in professional
web development, including
Ruby on Rails,
HTML5,
CSS, and
JavaScript. A week of career training followed the 18 weeks of technical training. The program took students with little or no prior programming experience and taught them the fundamentals of computer programming. The program's goal was to develop the necessary skills within the students to make them job-ready for an entry-level developer position. The tuition costs were $13,950 in the New York and San Francisco locations, and $12,700 for the Chicago, San Diego, Austin, and Seattle locations for the 9-week, 40-hour-per-week program. Core class hours were weekdays 9am-6pm in San Francisco and 8am-5pm in Chicago. However, most students stayed nights and weekends, which amounted to an approximate 70–80 hours per week. The company announced it was closing its doors on July 23, 2017 via a press release.
Phases The program was divided into three core phases, each lasting three weeks. In the first phase, students learned some of the fundamentals of computer programming in Ruby, including algorithms and database querying. The next phase introduced front-end technologies and combined them with previously learned material. The final phase brought everything full-circle with the
Ruby on Rails framework. In this phase, students built a web application from scratch. Students were also required to remotely complete 9 weeks of preparation material before the on-location courses began. ==Reception==