Web Development

course.
Learn to code in 9-week full time
or 24-week part-time
Table Of Contents
Everything about our Web Development course.

Overview 3

What you will learn 4

Our Product Mindset 5

Our Alumni 6

Course Format 8

Detailed Curriculum 9

Our Community 17

Our Online Platform 18

Alumni Jobs 19

Alumni Startups 20

FAQ 21
Overview
Product first.
Le Wagon is a very product-driven program teaching the core concepts of
programming and web development. During the course, our students learn how to
build robust and beautiful web applications by themselves, collaborate within a team
of developers and adopt the technical workflow followed by successful startups.

Think like a developer.

Aside from technical skills, our students also learn how to think and solve problems
like a developer by breaking complex problems into smaller ones. By the end of the
course, they are able to learn a new programming language or framework by
themselves, which is extremely important in the fast-paced environment of
web-development.

A lifetime community.
After the bootcamp, our students are granted lifetime access to our online platform
with up-to-date videos and tutorials about the latest tools and best practices of
software development. They also become members of our highly-engaged
community and network of international talents and teachers who keep helping each
other and sharing opportunities on a daily basis.

Successful graduates.
More than 13,500 alumni have graduated from Le Wagon. Many of our graduates
have joined tech companies as developers or product managers. A lot of them also
have started a career as freelancers or launched startups, with the most successful
raising up to $83M.

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What you will Learn.
We’ve been teaching people how to code since 2013 and are committed to
excellence. After the Web Development bootcamp, you will be able to:

Understand the core concepts of Learn ES6 (last version of

object-oriented programming Javascript) as a second
programming language
Structure your software following
design patterns like MVC Adopt the right technical
workflow: design your wireframe
Integrate a 3rd party service & mockup, test your UX with a
using an API or scrape HTML prototype, split your user stories
data across your team and
Design a relational database and collaborate with branch and pull
build queries with SQL requests with git and Github

Discover TDD (Test Driven

Build your UI (User Interface) Development) and learn how to
following atomic design cover your application's code
framework with unit tests

Code a CSS library using recent

techniques like flexbox or CSS
grid

World’s most acclaimed coding bootcamp

Le Wagon is the world’s most acclaimed coding
bootcamp, with an average grade of 4.98/5 according
to 2000+ student reviews on SwitchUp.

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Our Product Mindset.
We’ve helped our 13,500+ graduates build more than 2,400 products. For our
students, being a great developer is not just about code but also about mastering all
the skills involved in building a tech product:

Engineering skills to design your Graphic Design skills to design a

database and your software great-looking product

UX Design skills to build features Analytics skills to keep track of

your users actually want your users’ behaviour

UI Design Skills to make your Collaboration skills to work in a

interface intuitive tech team with the correct
workflow

World’s most acclaimed coding bootcamp

Le Wagon is the world’s most acclaimed coding
bootcamp, with an average grade of 4.98/5 according
to 1800+ student reviews on Course Report.

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Our Alumni.
Learning how to code tech products can lead to different paths. After Le Wagon, our
13,500+ alumni have:

Become fullstack developers, software engineers or product managers for

some of the world’s best tech companies (Google, Uber, Blablacar, Algolia,
Trainline, etc…)

Kickstarted their career as freelance web developers working from wherever

they want, and finding new opportunities through Le Wagon’s network and 43
worldwide campuses.

Validated their ideas by coding their first MVP as entrepreneurs, founded their
companies, and raised money to accelerate their growth.

WHAT OUR WEB DEVELOPMENT STUDENTS SAY

The curriculum at Le Wagon is really first class.

They've found a way to teach you all of the
important practical skills you'll need to make a
web application, while cutting out unnecessary
concepts.

Aoife McDaid
Software Engineer, Algolia

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 Meet our alumni.
They became fullstack developers, product managers, tech freelancers and more!

Karen Hoyos
Software Engineer, Babbel

Karen was working as Customer Service Executive

before she decided to take the leap and learn to code.
Two months after the bootcamp, she found a job as
Junior Developer at Babbel.

Ellen Zhuang
Product Manager, FURNISHD

Ellen learned programming to be a better Product

Manager, which is a key role in the tech industry. She
now works more efficiently with developers,
understanding their tech workflow.

Louis Sommer
Freelance Web Developer

A professional musician, producer and director, Louis

joins Le Wagon to learn how to code. Alongside his
artistic activities, he is now a freelance developer.

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Course Format.
Our bootcamps are available in 9-week full-time or in 24-week part-time. You are free
to choose the format that suits you best!

Full-time (9 weeks)
Courses from Monday to Friday
400 hours

In 9 intensive weeks, learn all the skills of a Software Developer, code your own web
applications from scratch and change your career.

Part-time (24 weeks)

Courses two evenings a week and on Saturdays
400 hours

Learn to code in 24-week part-time with a tailor-made program adapted to school &
public holidays, and above all to your busy schedule.

This format is also available 100% Online, with live courses and real teachers to learn
to code wherever you are!

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Detailed Curriculum.
Our bootcamp is structured in 4 core phases. Our students also have to complete
some preparation work to make sure they are ready for the bootcamp.

Phase 0 - Prepwork ~40h of work online

Get up to speed for the bootcamp

Phase 1 - Foundations 140 hours of work

Learn the core concepts of programming, software architecture and relational

databases.

Phase 2 - Web Development 140 hours of work

Learn UI Design, front-end development and code your web applications with
Ruby on Rails.

Phase 3 - Final Projects 80 hours of work

Invent, design, code, deploy and pitch personal projects in teams.

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Phase 0 - Prepwork.
~40 hours of work online

Get ready to start the bootcamp.

The Web Development course is very intense. To save time and nail it from the
beginning, our students must complete the prepwork on our custom-built platform
before starting the bootcamp. This work takes around 40 hours and gives them basic
knowledge of:

● Web 101, how the web works

● Terminal basic commands
● Git basic commands
● HTML / CSS foundations
● JavaScript foundations
● General knowledge about tech workflows in a startup

Prepwork enables our students to understand basic notions beforehand, through a

clear introductory course. It facilitates the learning process for when we cover these
concepts in detail during the program.

WHAT OUR WEB DEVELOPMENT STUDENTS SAY

Learning materials and resources are

extremely well-organized, and become your bible.
Daily exercises keep you focused and motivated
regardless of your initial skill-level.

Yuta Fujii
Fullstack Engineer, Alarmbox

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Phase 1 - Foundations.
140 hours of work

Learn the core concepts of programming, software architecture and relational

databases.

Developer setup
Install a professional developer's environment and be ready to nail it for the bootcamp.

SKILLS LEARNED

● Command line basics

● Navigating a file system (create, update, delete files/folders)
● Install Ruby and a Version Management tool
● Must-have developer's packages
● Version control with git / Commit and push on Github

Programming basics
Write algorithms manipulating variables, loops, conditions and data structures like
Array and Hash. Parse and store data from standards files (CSV, JSON, XML, HTML).

SKILLS LEARNED

● Core concepts of programming

● Ruby doc for built-in classes
● Algorithms & data structures (Array, Hash)
● Text pattern detection with Regular Expressions
● Parse and store data from standardized files (JSON, CSV, XML)
● Web scraping with Nokogiri
● Request and parse data from RESTful JSON APIs

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 Software Architecture
Structure your code with different classes following Object-Oriented principles. Like
an architect designing a building, a developer must respect patterns when designing
a software.

SKILLS LEARNED

● Core concepts of Object-Oriented programming

● Classes, objects and instance variables
● Instance and class methods, Inheritance
● Public vs. Private Interfaces
● Routing users' requests
● Simulating a database with CSV files
● In-depth understanding of MVC (Model View Controller)

Relational Database, SQL & ORM

Any software needs to store information in a database. Without a database, Facebook
would not persist users' data. Learn to design a relational database and build
structured queries to your database with SQL.

SKILLS LEARNED

● Database Schema Design & SQL

● One-to-many, many-to-many relations and join table
● CRUD in SQL (Create, Read, Update, Delete)
● Advanced JOIN queries
● Connecting your DB to ruby with an ORM (Object Relational Mapping)
● Active Record Basics: migrations & naming convention
● Active Record Advanced: associations & validation

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Phase 2 - Web Development.
140 hours of work

Learn UI Design, front-end development and code your web applications with Ruby
on Rails.

Building web interfaces

Elaborate your UI with atomic design and code beautiful components & layouts by
applying the latest CSS techniques.

SKILLS LEARNED

● Product Design, UX & UI principles

● HTML basics
● CSS (selectors, properties, stylesheets' organization)
● Atomic design principles
● CSS techniques with flexbox & CSS grid
● CSS media queries for Adaptive Design
● Bootstrap basics & Responsive Grid System

ES6, the latest Javascript version

Learn ES6, your second programming language after ruby, to add dynamic behaviors
to your website or update pages without reloading thanks to AJAX.

SKILLS LEARNED

● JavaScript fundamentals
● ES6 and differences to ES5
● JavaScript Tooling (Babel, Webpack, yarn)
● DOM Events & AJAX
● Stimulus JS

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 Wrapping all together with Rails
Wrap it all together by coding your first Ruby on Rails applications. Deploy your
applications in production & start coding “the Rails way”.

SKILLS LEARNED

● MVC in Rails: Routing, Controllers, Params & Views

● Models & CRUD in Rails
● Adding gems to your project
● ERB: Layouts, Partials and Helpers
● Nested Resources and Namespaces
● Refactoring an app with Services
● Defining a Rails API

Building Airbnb in teams

Code a clone of Airbnb from scratch in 5 days. You will work in teams to learn to
collaborate on Github using pull requests and deploy your apps on Heroku, using the
same workflow as successful startups.

SKILLS LEARNED

● Collaborating on a Rails app with Git and Github

● Testing in Rails with Rspec
● Authentication with Devise
● Omniauth and 3rd services' login (FB, Linkedin, Spotify...)
● Users' authorization
● Search in Rails
● Payment, Mailing, Geocoding and Maps
● Background Jobs with Sidekiq
● Image upload with Cloudinary & Continuous Deployment with Heroku

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Phase 3 - Final projects.
80 hours of work

Invent, design, code, deploy and pitch personal projects in teams.

Projects Phase is the ultimate experience of the program: invent, pitch, design, code
and deploy an original project in teams of 3 or 4 people during the two final weeks.

SKILLS LEARNED

● Product's target and unique value proposition

● Prototyping on Figma to test your UX
● Splitting work into user stories
● Coding an original web app from scratch: from back-end to user-interface
● Deploy your app on a production environment
● Pitch your web-app in a public graduation ceremony
● Check 300+ demos on https://lew.ag/studentprojects

WHAT OUR WEB DEVELOPMENT STUDENTS SAY

Le Wagon prepared me really well for my career

change since it gave me all the resources and
tools to become a proper full stack developer and
to keep on learning on my own. It gave me access
to this huge community that can help you when
needed.

Anne de Joly
Freelance Developer

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 Career Week.
1 week - optional

Prepare yourself to dive into a new career through workshops, talks and 1-to-1
coaching.

The career week is an optional 1-week schedule packed with practical workshops to
get ready for your next steps. From building a portfolio to inspiring talks, prepare
yourself for a new life in tech!

● Discover potential career paths, hearing from our alumni

● Design a resume geared for your career goals
● Boost your online presence with LinkedIn and Github
● Build a portfolio to showcase your projects
● Learn to navigate the job market and apply for companies
● Start your post-bootcamp learning journey with curated courses
● Discover our hiring partners and recruiters
● Learn more about technical interviews and coding challenges
● Listen to inspiring freelancers and entrepreneurs

After this intensive Career Week, we offer dedicated, 1-to-1 coaching for all our
graduates through Office Hours.

WHAT OUR WEB DEVELOPMENT STUDENTS SAY

I landed my job about a month after graduating,

via the Tech Jobs Night organized by Le Wagon.
Though we can still catch up around alumni
drinks, I'm really going to miss my Le Wagon
family!

Edward Blundell
Fullstack Developer, SOW Experience

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Our Community.
More than 13,500+ creative alumni with various backgrounds (engineers,
entrepreneurs, freelancers, data scientists, data analysts, designers...) coming from
50+ countries are chatting every day on Slack, getting help from Le Wagon's
teachers, sharing tips, resources, code gists, job offers and news from their products.
One of the best tech communities in the world.

Check out our Slack to get a taste of it 👇

You will always be welcome in our 45 campuses worldwide.

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Our Online Platform.
We warned you, we are serious about education! That’s why we’ve developed the
best platform we could imagine for our students:

300+ challenges

45 video lectures of 1h30 to re-watch any time after the bootcamp

100+ live-codes and tutorials on real-life examples

900+ flashcards to rehearse core concepts

Life-time access to our platform and all our future resources & tutorials

All this content has been developed thoroughly by Le Wagon's teachers for the last 7
years, batch after batch, feedback after feedback. We believe a great coding course
demands lots of iterations and refinements to make sure we are moving at the same
pace as the tech we are teaching.

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Alumni Jobs.
Our alumni now work for the best tech companies as engineers, developers, data
analysts, data scientists or product managers.

WHAT OUR WEB DEVELOPMENT STUDENTS SAY

When we decided to launch Matera (illicopro at

the time) with Raphael, we couldn't find our CTO.
So we decided to learn on our own. Not only Le
Wagon enabled me to release our MVP and to get
our first clients but I also met Romuald there, who
is now lead dev at Matera.

Victor Prigent
Cofounder, Matera

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Alumni Startups.
Le Wagon's community is also a strong network of entrepreneurs. More than 180
startups have been launched by Le Wagon alumni, 81 of them having successfully
raised funding for a total of over $461M to date.

42 of these startups have raised between $1M and $83M

23 of these startups have raised between $300,000 and $999,000

180+ active startups have been launched by Le Wagon alumni

50% of the founders meet each other during the bootcamp

Successful companies that have

emerged from Le Wagon include
Matera, Skello, Workelo, Regaind
(acquired by Apple), Travelsify,
Side.co, Plato, Scalia A-line,
Kudoz and many more…

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 FAQ.
All you need to know before applying to our Web Development course.

1. Tuition fees, scholarships, funding options

What are the tuition fees?

Price may vary depending on the location and its cost of living. You will find prices for
our different courses on the page of each city on Le Wagon’s website (accessible from
the top navigation bar).

Are there any scholarships available?

Some cities offer scholarships for co-founders, locals, women in tech, or in
partnership with local organisations. You will find more details about these
scholarships on the page of each city on Le Wagon’s website. Also feel free to reach
out to the local admission manager for more information and possible assistance.

What payment plans do you offer? What are the instalments and payment
schedule?
The bootcamp is to be paid in several instalments. The number of instalments varies
depending on the city. Please reach out to the local admission manager for any
questions - she/he'll be happy to share any specificities on this matter.

Are there other funding options available, like deferred tuition, student loans or
ISA?
Some cities offer specific funding options with local financial partners, like deferred
tuition plans, student loans with interesting conditions or Income Share Agreements
(ISA). Again, you will find more details about these options on the page of each city on
Le Wagon’s website. Also feel free to reach out to the local admission manager to
have more details about their local funding options.

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2. Application, Selection, Preparation

How can I apply to a course?

To apply to a course, you just need to complete and submit the application form on
our website, choosing the course (web development, data science), the format
(9-week full-time, 24-week part-time) and the city you're interested in. This is a rather
quick process, that takes a few minutes. We will then schedule an interview (by Zoom
or on-site) to understand your goals more in details.

How will you evaluate my online application?

In your online applications, we're only looking for one thing: motivation. Our
bootcamps are very intense, fast-paced and demanding, and we will select only the
most motivated students to get onboard. Make sure that you explain why you want to
join Le Wagon in your application - the more details you give us, the better chance you
have to get selected for the interview.

What's the interview about?

Our Web Development bootcamp is designed for beginners and there are no
prerequisite skills required. Our Admissions Manager will mostly assess your
motivation as well as your professional and personal projects during the interview, to
make sure they are consistent with the outcomes of the bootcamp.

What are the next steps after the interview? Are there any assessments?
If you are selected after the interview, you will then have to complete an online
assessment of 8 to 15 hours covering basic concepts of programming in Ruby on
Codecademy. This assessment does not really test your technical skills and everyone
can do it! It's still a great way to assess your motivation and make sure that you are
ready to eat, sleep and breathe code during the bootcamp. To get accepted onto the
course, you must complete 100% of this assessment. Tips: you will receive the link to
this assessment on Codecademy right after applying to the course on our website. We
recommend that you start working on it as soon as possible, even before the interview
if you can. It's the best way to show us your motivation during the interview and it will
give you a better chance of being accepted.

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How will I know if I get accepted?
If you pass the interview and complete 100% of the online assessment on
Codecademy, it means you have the right motivation and are ready to dive into
programming for two months. Congratulations, you've passed all the selection
process and you can now join the web development bootcamp. Our Admissions
Manager will get back to you with a contract and send you the preparation work to
complete before the beginning of the course.

Is there any preparation work once I get accepted?

Yes, we will send you an online preparation work once you've passed all the selection
process. This work takes around 40 hours and will give you a basic knowledge of how
the web works, terminal basic commands, versioning and basic concepts of web
development and tech workflows. This prepwork is absolutely mandatory and must be
completed before the beginning of the bootcamp.

Can I join a waiting list if a session is full?

It is very rare that candidates abandon ship once they have been accepted to the
course. Nevertheless, we always open a waiting list when bootcamps are full, in case
this happens! To join the waiting list, you will have to to go through the exact same
application process.

How should I choose the right city to do the course?

Le Wagon fulfils the exact same mission in all of our locations. The curriculum is the
same everywhere as are all of our materials (lectures and exercises). Teachers and
teaching assistants are hired and trained in the same way all around the globe.

Our advice to help choosing a city would be:

● Environment: it is ideal to do the bootcamp in a city where you would like to
build something - either take part in its tech community, launch your startup, or
find a job
● Quality of life: can I afford it ? Would I like the climate ? etc.
● Language: check the language in which the bootcamp is actually done (our
bootcamp is taught in English in most of our cities, but there are several
exceptions - in Sāo Paulo and Belo Horizonte, the lectures are in Portuguese, in
France the bootcamp is in French, etc.)

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When will the next sessions take place?
We usually open applications 4 to 5 months in advance. You will see the next batch
dates on the page of each city on Le Wagon’s website (accessible from the top
navigation bar). If you're unsure about anything, feel free to reach out to the admission
manager of a specific city. She/He will gladly answer all of your questions and contact
you as soon as we open the applications for the upcoming batch.

Do you help international students to get a visa?

Depending on your situation and where you would like to do the bootcamp, you will
potentially need a tourist or business visa. Please reach out to the city's admission
manager for more information and possible assistance.

Extra information
For mainland China, in some cases, we can invite you on a Business Visa (M). Duration
and number of entries vary according to your nationality. Please consult our team to
have more information.

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3. Student profile

I don't have any technical background, can I join the course?

You don't need any technical background to join our web development bootcamp. We
expect 3 things from our students: be (extremely) motivated, be curious, be social. If
this sounds like you, then we'll be more than happy to have you on board if you pass
the selection process.

Is there a typical profile for a Le Wagon student?

Our students all have very different profiles. They are between 18 and 55, and they all
share the same curiosity and enthusiasm for coding and data. They all come from
various background: undergraduates, marketers, engineers, sales, lawyers, journalists,
architects, musicians... Thus, spending 9 weeks full-time or 24 weeks part-time at Le
Wagon is not only an incredible human experience, it also helps you build an
astonishing network for your after-bootcamp life to keep learning and find amazing job
or freelance opportunities!

I'm under 18 years old, can I apply?

You need to be 18 to enroll for the course. However, you can apply if you are 17 as
long as you turn 18 before the start of the bootcamp.

I'm over 50 years old, should I apply?

We’ve had students over 50 in the past and they’ve succeeded in learning web
development or data science and starting new careers like anyone else. Age doesn’t
make any differences in the recruitment process to get onboard, the only thing we
consider is your commitment and your motivation.

I currently don't have an idea of a final project to work on. Is it a problem?

Don't worry about it! Students with a project are invited to pitch their idea during the
bootcamp while people without one are welcome to team up with them.

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What language is the bootcamp taught in?
In most cities, the bootcamp is taught in English.

In French cities, the program is in French. You will have a 1h30 lecture in the morning
in French, and a 1h30 live-code in the evening in French as well. So, if you don't
understand French correctly, you won't be able to attend the bootcamp in France.

In some other cities (São Paulo, Shanghai, Chengdu, Tokyo) specific sessions are
organised in other languages (Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese). You can
check the language of the next batch on the "Apply" page.

Do I need a laptop?
Each student must have a laptop. You’ll need Mac OS X or Linux, but if you only have
Windows, no worries, you’ll learn how to install Linux the first day.

⚠ A Microsoft Surface or Apple iPad won't do. Those are not real computers. If you
need a piece of advice on what to buy, please contact the staff.

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4. Course info and schedule

What's the course schedule? What's the level of commitment required?

Full-time schedule
The full-time bootcamp is a 9-week program, from Monday to Friday, 9am - 6pm. To
get the most out of the program, you need to be fully committed to it as it is a truly
demanding experience (360 hours of code in 9 weeks!). Generally, people who keep a
side activity during the bootcamp struggle to keep pace.

Part-time schedule
The part-time bootcamp is a 24-week program, where students have two remote
sessions from 7pm to 10pm generally on Tuesday evening and Thursday evening, and
come for one on-campus session on Saturday all day from 9am to 6pm.

In addition, part-time students have some homework and course videos to watch
before coming to an on-campus or remote session to benefit the most from the
session, e.g. practice, interact with their classmates and ask their questions to
teachers instead of listening to a lecture after a day of work. The part-time program is
really a marathon of 24 weeks! It requires students to be rigorous, to do their
homework, and be even more committed than for full-time. Note that the part-time
schedule can be slightly adapted in each city and includes some breaks for public
holidays.

The part-time bootcamp has been designed to fit around a full-time job or other
commitments during the working week, with live sessions held in the evenings and
weekends. Check out the city page of the campus you are interested in to see the
weekly schedule. The weekly time commitment is 16 hours, with 14 hours of schedule
live sessions and 2 hours of video recorded lectures to watch.

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What is the main difference between Le Wagon and other coding bootcamps?

8 years of experience
Le Wagon was founded in 2013 and has more than 8 years of experience teaching
tech skills and helping people change their life, start a career in tech and thrive in their
new job. More than 13,500 alumni have graduated from our bootcamps in 43 cities
around the world, and Le Wagon is the most acclaimed coding bootcamp worldwide
on Switchup according to student reviews. Feel free to reach out to any of our
graduates on Linkedin to hear what they have to say about Le Wagon.

Making you team-ready

We've spent a lot of time improving our two bootcamps in web development and data
science to teach our students the core concepts and give them solid foundations, but
also to make sure they learn how to collaborate in a tech team with the right
methodology and workflow, and that they know how to use modern tools and apply
best practices in web development and data science. This makes Le Wagon's
graduates extremely interesting for tech recruiters since lots of other bootcamps don't
necessarily teach these extra skills focusing their curriculum more on a specific
technology or language.

A unique community
Le Wagon's community is the most active bootcamp network with more than 13,500
alumni, 180+ startups founded by alumni (raising more than $461M altogether) and
1,000 teachers in web development and data science. Once you graduate from Le
Wagon, you belong to this vibrant family, you will keep learning for life with the support
of this community, and access unique job and freelance opportunities.

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What is the main difference between Le Wagon and an academic degree in
Computer Science or Data Science?
The main difference between an academic degree and a bootcamp is that we don't
start from scratch and we learn with a lot of practice using modern tools and methods.
In an academic curriculum in CS or DS, you will start learning all the theoretical
knowledge (e.g. hardware layer of your computer for a CS degree, or advanced
concepts of linear algebra and statistics for a DS degree) before moving to applied
topics like web development or machine learning. This is only useful if you want to be
able to navigate between these layers.

However nowadays, you can build almost anything while only mastering the last part.
That's why we designed our bootcamps this way. Of course you won't work at Tesla
as a software engineer or at Google as a Deep Learning expert (unless you already
have a scientific background when joining our bootcamp) but you will be able to work
on your own tech products, web applications and data science projects or find a job
as a junior developer, data scientist, data analyst or product manager with enough
skills and knowledge to get started in your new company and bring value. Of course,
that will be your role to keep learning in your new job and become more expert in
specific topics.

Do you provide accommodation/catering?

We do not provide accommodation or catering. The price of the course only includes
the tuition - and unlimited tea, coffee, fruits. Nonetheless, our city managers will be
more than happy to recommend some great places for your stay as they are used to
helping students find accommodation and have lots of good plans.

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5. Web Development curriculum

What will I be able to build at the end of the web development bootcamp?
At the end of the 9 weeks (full-time) or 24 weeks (part-time), you will have a Ruby on
Rails junior developer level. This means you will be able to quickly prototype your
ideas by creating web applications on your own. For instance, you will know how to
include authentication to your web application (simple signin/signup, or Facebook/
WeChat connect), add an admin back-office, include payment features, automate
emails sending, and much more. You will also know how to quickly deploy in
production and you will have learnt the programming best practices used by the best
tech companies. You will then have different options at the end of the course:
● Find a developer job (front-end, back-end or full-stack developer)
● Find a tech-related job (e.g. product manager, solution engineer, operations
manager, customer success manager, etc.) in a startup or a tech company
● Continue your entrepreneurial journey
● Become a freelance web developer

Do you teach TDD (Test Driven Development)?

We do teach TDD. Every day, students work on exercises prepared and refined for 4
years by Le Wagon’s pedagogical team. Those use the red / green / refactor
methodology. Every evening, during the livecode, the class starts from a blank sheet
and uses TDD to solve the challenges. We teach RSpec, the testing framework most
used by rubyists.

Will I learn mobile app development?

You will learn some concepts behind mobile app development. Let’s be clear: you will
not learn iOS, Android or Windows Phone development. We really think these skills
cannot be taught (honestly) in 9 weeks (full-time) or 24 weeks (part-time). We prefer
teaching you the basics of programming and web development for many reasons.
First, these are the core skills of a software engineer, even if you want to dive into
mobile development later on. Second, the web is THE open platform you need to
understand. Thanks to Responsive Web Design (which is part of the program), and
WeChat mini programs (in China), you will be able to create apps that will display
nicely on mobile devices. You will also learn to create APIs that will be used by your
mobile apps. It will then be very easy for any mobile developers to code your iOS or
Android interface starting from the API you’ve built.

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6. Career services

Do you offer career support?

Once the bootcamps ends, you will benefit from our career services. Our local team
will organise a career week (see « Career Week » page) and help you prepare for tech
interviews, meet the best local recruiters and connect with relevant alumni. You will
also have access to a complete guide to kick-start your tech career after the course:
boost your portfolio, prepare for technical interviews, leverage on our 13,500 alumni
community, but also to lots of useful Slack channels to find jobs or freelance
opportunities.

Our career team will introduce you to the right people depending on your goal and you
will meet with inspiring alumni who will come back to share their post-bootcamp
experiences, like how they found a job, started their own company or freelancing
career.

These are the career services Le Wagon provides, offline or online depending on the
COVID-19 situation in your city:
● Networking events, job fairs, career workshops and office hours with alumni or
tech recruiters
● Coaching sessions with our Talent Manager or local alumni
● Resources our Career Playbook
● Introductions to our network of hiring partners through our Hiring Newsletter

7. Tech Recruiters

Is it possible to share our job offer(s) with your alumni?

Yes of course. However recruitment is a long-term relationship and as such we would
love to connect with you first!

Do you organise recruitment events?

Yes we do! From regular events to great workshops to promote your company's
culture we would love to discuss the best format fitting your needs around a coffee.
Contact us through our Career Services page to tell us a bit more about you and join
our hiring network!

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