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Established
  
2013

Campus type
  
Urban

Founders
  
Nimit Maru, David Yang

Average class size
  
35-40

Founded
  
2013

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School type
  
Immersive Coding Bootcamp

Classes offered
  
Full-Time Immersive, Part-Time Immersive (Flex), JavaScript Jumpstart (beginner), Introduction to Front-End Development

Walkthrough of fullstack academy s remote immersive program


Fullstack Academy is an immersive software engineering coding bootcamp located in New York City. Students of the full-time flagship course learn full stack JavaScript over the course of a 13-week, on-campus program. Fullstack Academy offers beginner courses in Javascript (JavaScript Jumpstart) and front-end development, as well as a summer program for college-age students (Summer of Code), and a part-time version of their full-time curriculum (Flex).

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History

Fullstack Academy was founded in 2012 by David Yang (formerly of Yahoo!, Gilt) and Wharton School alumnus Nimit Maru (formerly of Yahoo!, Bloomspot). After succeeding as a Y-Combinator-backed startup, Fullstack graduated its first cohort of students in 2013, and moved to its current location at 5 Hanover Sq., New York, NY in November 2014.

Course offerings

Fullstack’s flagship immersive course begins with a four-week “foundations” course, to be completed remotely before arriving on-campus. The on-site component of the program involves thirteen weeks of intensive JavaScript education, incorporating a lecture-workshop format, as well as a team-based project phase. Back-end languages taught include Node.js/Express; front end languages include Angular.js/JavaScript MVC, HTML5, and CSS3; and Data Structures taught include MONGODB, NoSQL, and Postgres. Full-time students have access to career assistance following graduation. Tuition for the full-time immersive is $17,610.

The Flex-Immersive is a part-time course covering the same content as Fullstack Academy’s full-time program. The foundations course and career assistance programs are also available to Flex students.

Summer of Code is an immersive course for college and graduate school students with computer science or technically equivalent experience, held each year between June and August. The course is full-time and adheres to the same curriculum and structure as the flagship immersive program.

Introduction to Front-End Development is a beginner-level course in which teaches primarily front-end development skills, as well as how to integrate the front and back-end stacks. The course operates part-time over a ten-week period.

Admissions

Fullstack Academy’s immersive courses (Full-Time, Flex-Immersive, & Summer of Code) use selective admissions procedures, admitting approximately 8% of applicants.

Applicants for the Full-time Immersive, Flex, and Summer of Code programs must pass a fundamental-skills evaluation, technical interview, and in-person interview prior program acceptance.

Awards and media

Fullstack Academy was named Best Coding Bootcamp of 2015 by SkilledUp.com. Fullstack, its co-founders, and former students have received media coverage from Forbes.com, The Huffington Post, Business Insider, VentureBeat.com, and Fox5NY.

References

Fullstack Academy Wikipedia