Thanks Felicia for sharing your experience with Launch School. I think you really hit the nail on the head with your emphasis on the school's approach being on mastering the fundamentals of software engineering. I've been reading many articles lately by software engineers and engineering manages in the industry who've talked about how bootcamps have increased the supply of developers, who are now competing directly for jobs with new grads coming out of colleges with their 4-year, expensive degrees. The unfortunate thing in the current state of the tech market is that, companies have to figure how to filter through the engineers who really know SWE and CS in-depth, down to the fundamentals, as opposed to those who just learn it at a surface level and master a tech stack. There's a flip side to this as well, where developers who study at subpar bootcamps end up getting into jobs they feel they can't really grow in because they lack important fundamentals required on the job to level up as a software engineer. I feel that a first-principles school like Launch School addresses that issue very well. Thanks again for the transparent review!

Thanks so much for your videos that detail the LauchSchool experience! I've been working the past five years in a medical laboratory setting and I'm getting tired of it. For the past two years, I've been trying to study computer programming in the hopes of switching careers someday. I've studied Java, Python and now recently, want to study web development. I've been fumbling around, not knowing what to study, so LaunchSchool seems like a perfect fit for me. For anyone reading this thinking that it's too late or you've wasted too much time, it never is too late! I've literally been trying to study for two years and have basically gotten no where, haha. Thank you for your videos!

thank you so much for this review I'm trying to find a BootCamp right now, I hope you post more about your trial and tribulations and maybe the projects you do work on and update your progress, ill be subscribing and looking out for future content if you decide that, cheers

Thanks for this video! I have a family and I'm in the process of transitioning into software engineering while being a full time nurse. I love the fact that LS is mastery based. The fact that you need and A+ to progress is fantastic and intimidating at the same time. I can't wait to start. Super motivated.

Another really helpful video, thank you again.

I think you sold me. I did a bootcamp and got a job but I don't feel confident in what I know.

As a current student, I think you provided a nice and balanced perspective! I really appreciate the pause feature along. I had attended an online bootcamp before and I found out pretty quickly that the quality was lacking, so I quit the program. Guess what? I had only been there 2 or 3 weeks and still owed them $1000! For what amounted to material that I could have bought for $20 or $30!

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Hi 👋, I have a question, I know launch school is a mastery based learning and I know it’s a takes 1-2 years to complete it is that typical with putting in 40 hours a week? I think I saw a video saying it’s been about 2.5 years for you and was wondering if that’s going at a full time pace? Thank you 🙏

I did the Thinkful bootcamp (mediocre experience, it was okay) and have been working as a frontend for a year but not feeling like I'm confident enough in programming fundamentals. There's a lack of senior dev experience at my company to learn from, so I'm thinking of doing launch school on the side to get some mentorship from more senior developers. I like their mastery-based pedagogy. Did you meet anyone in a similar situation when you were doing launch school?

What was your daily/weekly study schedule like?