Skill Switch Academy’s flagship program, the Full-Time Software Engineering Immersive, is a rigorous, 16-week career accelerator for students of all starting skill levels.
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The Skill Switch Academy Experience
What You’ll Learn
The Skill Switch Academy Software Engineering Bootcamp utilizes utilizes an in-demand, JavaScript-based core curriculum.
Classes are held Monday through Friday from 10:00am-5:00pm ET.
Foundations On-Ramp
The Software Engineering Immersive begins with a comprehensive Foundations on-ramp to support both intermediate and beginner coders. Designed to help all students reach a uniform skill level, Foundations covers the basic tenets of programming to prepare for the core curriculum—which moves through more advanced, specialized JavaScript concepts at a rapid bootcamp pace.
Foundational Software Engineering Curriculum
- HTML and CSS
- Introduction to JavaScript programming
- Advanced JavaScript including closure, prototypical inheritance, and recursion
- Web development environment and industry-standard tools
Foundations On-Ramp Features
- Supports learners of all skill levels
- Student-centered, inquiry-based learning in teams
- Instructor-facilitated, live online classroom format
- Immersive digital learning tools
- At the end of this unit, you will complete a project to apply your skills
You’ll study HTML5, CSS, and advanced CSS—and go beyond with fundamental Javascript concepts.
Technologies
- HTML5
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Git and GitHub
Concepts
- Web Interface and Design – You’ll learn how content and imagery are best displayed on a website.
- Front-End Framework – You’ll start to understand pre-written modules and their primary use cases in web development.
Features
- Pair Programming – Working with a fellow student, you’ll each use your newfound knowledge to write and optimize front-end code. This helps you build real-world experience and prepare for technical coding interviews.
You’ll apply your JavaScript skills with the amazing ecosystem of libraries that have made JavaScript the industry standard of web engineering. We’ll also teach you to use APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to connect to vast amounts of data to power your web applications.
Technologies
- JavaScript
- JavaScript APIs
- React, React Router, and React Hooks
- Redux
Concepts
- Test-Driven Development (TDD) – Particularly relevant in JavaScript development, the TDD methodology allows developers to test new code before writing it—preserving its former iteration in case of incompatibilities or errors.
Features
- Prototyping – Throughout bootcamp, you’ll begin each project by scoping, researching, and beginning to build full stack web applications—touching on every stage of a typical, real-world prototype development process.
You’ll master data organization and storage by working with SQL relational databases and learn how to integrate them into your applications. Then, it’s time to start building your own full stack application!
Technologies
- JavaScript
- SQL
Projects
- Full Stack Capstone Project – You will work with a team of students to come up with an ambitious idea for an app, and start building it out. This will be the most impressive project in your portfolio and will demonstrate your full understanding of software development and industry best practices.
- Full Stack Project Pitching – After formulating your own idea for a web or mobile application, you’ll pitch it to the class. Taking market, design, and utility considerations into account, you’ll understand through your pitch process how development projects come to fruition in real-world scenarios.
Features
- Portfolio Development – As you complete your full stack web development projects, all your code will be housed in GitHub to demonstrate your technical prowess and creativity to potential employers.
- Career Coaching – Fullstack Academy Career Coaches are your one-stop professional development resource. They’ll work with you on core aspects of the job search–from interview preparation to resume optimization–throughout the final stages of your bootcamp experience and beyond.
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Front-End
Foundations -
Foundations On-Ramp
The Software Engineering Immersive begins with a comprehensive Foundations on-ramp to support both intermediate and beginner coders. Designed to help all students reach a uniform skill level, Foundations covers the basic tenets of programming to prepare for the core curriculum—which moves through more advanced, specialized JavaScript concepts at a rapid bootcamp pace.
Foundational Software Engineering Curriculum
- HTML and CSS
- Introduction to JavaScript programming
- Advanced JavaScript including closure, prototypical inheritance, and recursion
- Web development environment and industry-standard tools
Foundations On-Ramp Features
- Supports learners of all skill levels
- Student-centered, inquiry-based learning in teams
- Instructor-facilitated, live online classroom format
- Immersive digital learning tools
- At the end of this unit, you will complete a project to apply your skills
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Front-End
Development -
You’ll study HTML5, CSS, and advanced CSS—and go beyond with fundamental Javascript concepts.
Technologies
- HTML5
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Git and GitHub
Concepts
- Web Interface and Design – You’ll learn how content and imagery are best displayed on a website.
- Front-End Framework – You’ll start to understand pre-written modules and their primary use cases in web development.
Features
- Pair Programming – Working with a fellow student, you’ll each use your newfound knowledge to write and optimize front-end code. This helps you build real-world experience and prepare for technical coding interviews.
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Development Libraries and
Back-End Engineering -
You’ll apply your JavaScript skills with the amazing ecosystem of libraries that have made JavaScript the industry standard of web engineering. We’ll also teach you to use APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to connect to vast amounts of data to power your web applications.
Technologies
- JavaScript
- JavaScript APIs
- React, React Router, and React Hooks
- Redux
Concepts
- Test-Driven Development (TDD) – Particularly relevant in JavaScript development, the TDD methodology allows developers to test new code before writing it—preserving its former iteration in case of incompatibilities or errors.
Features
- Prototyping – Throughout bootcamp, you’ll begin each project by scoping, researching, and beginning to build full stack web applications—touching on every stage of a typical, real-world prototype development process.
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Full Stack
Development -
You’ll master data organization and storage by working with SQL relational databases and learn how to integrate them into your applications. Then, it’s time to start building your own full stack application!
Technologies
- JavaScript
- SQL
Projects
- Full Stack Capstone Project – You will work with a team of students to come up with an ambitious idea for an app, and start building it out. This will be the most impressive project in your portfolio and will demonstrate your full understanding of software development and industry best practices.
- Full Stack Project Pitching – After formulating your own idea for a web or mobile application, you’ll pitch it to the class. Taking market, design, and utility considerations into account, you’ll understand through your pitch process how development projects come to fruition in real-world scenarios.
Features
- Portfolio Development – As you complete your full stack web development projects, all your code will be housed in GitHub to demonstrate your technical prowess and creativity to potential employers.
- Career Coaching – Fullstack Academy Career Coaches are your one-stop professional development resource. They’ll work with you on core aspects of the job search–from interview preparation to resume optimization–throughout the final stages of your bootcamp experience and beyond.
Skill Switch Academy Coding Bootcamps are held in an immersive, live online format.
Tuition and Dates
Skill Switch Academy is committed to making tech education more accessible, which is why we offer several payment options to help you invest in your bootcamp education.
Tuition: $19,910 $14,995 for a limited time with our New Beginnings Scholarship.
A refundable deposit of $99, applied to your total tuition, is due at the time of enrollment. The deposit is refundable up until the end of the first week of classes.
Learn more about each of these ways to pay for your bootcamp education.
For a limited time, enroll in the Fullstack Academy Software Engineering Bootcamp or the Grace Hopper Program and save 25% on tuition with the New Beginnings Scholarship (a $4,915 value).
Additional scholarship opportunities are available for women, military vets, and other communities. Plus, we offer seasonal scholarships for certain cohorts.
Pay for your bootcamp tuition in affordable, predictable monthly installments.
Check with your local VA office to see if you are eligible for VET TEC benefits. Learn more about our veteran initiatives.
Build a Portfolio of Apps
By the time you graduate from the Software Engineering Bootcamp, you’ll have a culminating full stack capstone project in your software engineering portfolio. All of your code will be housed on GitHub and built out with real-world libraries and methodologies—demonstrating your technical, practical, and creative skills to future employers.
Check out some of our past coding student capstone projects.
By the time you graduate from the Software Engineering Bootcamp, you’ll have a culminating full stack capstone project in your software engineering portfolio. All of your code will be housed on GitHub and built out with real-world libraries and methodologies—demonstrating your technical, practical, and creative skills to future employers.
By the time you graduate from the Software Engineering Bootcamp, you’ll have a culminating full stack capstone project in your software engineering portfolio. All of your code will be housed on GitHub and built out with real-world libraries and methodologies—demonstrating your technical, practical, and creative skills to future employers.
By the time you graduate from the Software Engineering Bootcamp, you’ll have a culminating full stack capstone project in your software engineering portfolio. All of your code will be housed on GitHub and built out with real-world libraries and methodologies—demonstrating your technical, practical, and creative skills to future employers.
By the time you graduate from the Software Engineering Bootcamp, you’ll have a culminating full stack capstone project in your software engineering portfolio. All of your code will be housed on GitHub and built out with real-world libraries and methodologies—demonstrating your technical, practical, and creative skills to future employers.
Pair Programming
Throughout bootcamp, you’ll program alongside a partner. Together, you’ll assume defined roles to solve programming challenges and double-check each other’s work.
Some things are better when they are shared
Employers love to see ample pair programming experience on your resume because it demonstrates practical knowledge as well as creative problem-solving skills. Plus, pair programming helps you get a feel for real-world remote work environments while building lasting, meaningful professional relationships.
Prepare for a Career in Coding
Upon graduation and for a full year beyond, you’ll opt into Career Success to receive the guidance and tools you’ll need to power your job search and land the ideal web developer role for you.
Our career coaches will also help you prepare for standard and technical interviews with group sessions, events, presentations, and more!
Admissions
With an in-depth curriculum spanning computer science fundamentals to front-end and back-end web development, the Software Engineering Bootcamp is best for motivated students who are passionate about tech.
The Software Engineering Immersive is designed to engage and challenge students throughout their bootcamp experience on an accelerated timeline. That’s why we’ve developed a thoughtful application process to ensure prospective students are a good fit for the program—and vice-versa!
Here’s what we look for in prospective students.
TESTIMONIALS
What Says Our Happy Students
A word of advice to older prospective students like myself. You may be frustrated where you are right now but afraid to make the leap, to quit your job, to spend your savings on a bootcamp, to take three months to learn, to work 80 hours a week. I promise it’s worth it.
Andrew Ash
Front-End Engineer, Amazon
A word of advice to older prospective students like myself. You may be frustrated where you are right now but afraid to make the leap, to quit your job, to spend your savings on a bootcamp, to take three months to learn.
Andrew
Front-End Engineer
A word of advice to older prospective students like myself. You may be frustrated where you are right now but afraid to make the leap, to quit your job, to spend your savings on a bootcamp.
Ash Andrew
Back-End Engineer, Google
Faqs
No matter where you are in your coding journey, you can hone the skills, knowledge, and practical experience of a professional web developer with Skill Switch Academy. As a trusted trailblazer in tech education, we’ve helped over 10,000+ students graduate job-ready with the skills, drive, and portfolio to build lasting, thriving careers in tech.
The future of web development has moved toward sophisticated, responsive, and dynamic single-page applications running in the browser. Apps like Gmail, Asana, Trello, Facebook, and Google Maps have redefined what users expect from web applications and what developers need to deliver.
After observing these trends, plus conducting lots of research and conversations with industry experts, we’ve come to the conclusion that full stack JavaScript is the future of web development. Consequently, it is what we primarily immerse our students in at Skill Switch Academy.
What about Ruby on Rails, Python, or other engineering languages? Why are other schools teaching these-or a combination of these- instead?
Ruby on Rails has been instrumental in consolidating many best practices in back-end web development–making it easier for developers to build large sites in an organized way. Meanwhile, Python has completely revolutionized the way sites record and use data—and we do teach Python foundational skills in our Data Analytics bootcamps.
Primarily, though, research and use cases show that today’s web runs on highly interactive and responsive experiences that don’t require a page refresh at every step. As a result, single-page applications (SPAs) written in JavaScript using frameworks like React or Vue.js make JavaScript one of the best programming languages to learn.
JavaScript also offers professional advantages over other languages. Skill Switch Academy graduates are well-rounded coders with both a thorough understanding of the full stack and programming concepts in general. We’ve learned through years of tech education that students may more easily understand and master other coding languages once they’ve learned full stack JavaScript. This gives our graduates a more in-demand skill set that separates them from the competition and widens the range of coding job types they’re qualified for.
All our coding bootcamps are thorough, comprehensive, immersive, and rigorous. We’re backed by multi-year experience in online tech training to deliver consistent, in-demand coding curricula and digital learning tools in a remote environment.
Specifically, the Full-Time Software Engineering Bootcamp is designed to support you in leveling up your coding skills, building a robust portfolio, and launching a career in tech. Learn more about online learning with Skill Switch Academy.
There are a great number of online resources available and we encourage you to try them. Particularly for beginners, tools like Codecademy, Code School, and Team Treehouse can help you learn and practice in-demand coding concepts.
At Skill Switch Academy, learning and practicing coding concepts are only part of the equation. Our Software Engineering Immersive centers on ensuring students have everything they need to build a thriving career—all within an accelerated, guided, supportive, and career-focused environment for learning.
Additionally, the Software Engineering Immersive centers on active learning and competency-based evaluation metrics, so prospective students can effectively build practical coding skills with real-world application to become well-rounded software engineers.
Learn more about the Skill Switch Academy difference.
If you apply to the Software Engineering Immersive and you don't get in, you are welcome to reapply in six months and work on improving your skills in the meantime.