All applicants will start with Fullstack Academy’s Intro to Coding and Bootcamp Prep Vestibule (BCP‑V) courses, which will prepare you for the Web Development Fellowship (WDF).

Participants will start with Intro to Coding, a 4-week introductory course to get absolute beginners familiar with core web languages (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and some key tools they’ll need as a developer (Git and Github).

As part of this introduction, participants will have one day each week dedicated to career readiness topics, including an introduction to tech careers and a day in the life of a software engineer.

Participants will then move on to Bootcamp Prep Vestibule (BCP-V), a 3-week session that will build on the introductory skills they gained in Intro to Code. In this module, participants will gain exposure to key computer science concepts and techniques needed to be successful as a web developer.

The schedule is part-time, Monday through Thursdays, from 6:45 – 9:45 p.m., with about 4 hours of work outside of class expected per week.

At the end of BCP-V, participants will take a technical assessment to demonstrate what they have learned during pre-training. Performance on this assessment and throughout the course determines whether or not participants are invited to complete a technical interview for continued enrollment in the remainder of the program.

What you’ll learn:

• Intro to HTML
• Intro to CSS
• Intro to Javascript
• Intro to Git and Deployment
• Defining and invoking functions
• Data types
• Control flow, truthy/falsy, and loops
• Objects
• Multidimensional arrays and nested loops
• Recursion
• Approaching problems, review, and mock interview

Foundations is the first phase of the Fellowship. Foundations is 4 weeks of self-paced, full-time, instructor-supported training that will build on the skills participants learned during Bootcamp Prep.

In Foundations, Participants will continue to build a strong understanding of the fundamentals of JavaScript and start to understand how a web application is put together from the ground up. Participants will also revisit HTML and CSS in more depth nd get introduced to Node.js.

In addition, during this part of the Fellowship, participants will be introduced to what a technical interview is, how the process works, and what employers typically expect from job candidates. Beginning in this phase, participants will practice technical interviewing regularly throughout the rest of training – so that the time you get to a real-life interview, you will be more than ready.
The schedule is full-time, Monday through Fridays, from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., with about 8 hours of work outside of class expected per week.

All Fullstack graduates receive guidance and mentorship from Fullstack Academy’s career success team—both before graduation and after. We're kicking that commitment up a notch for our NYC Black and Latinx Web Development Fellowship students. You'll have your first sessions with career success starting in your very first week of Intro to Coding, so you can start networking and preparing yourself for the job search from the start. As you approach graduation and start your job search, our career success team will check in with you one-on-one, run you through mock interviews, help you negotiate during the hiring process, and keep you motivated and supported during this crucial time.

We also host an in-house job fair during the final week of the program exclusively for Fullstack and Grace Hopper seniors. There, you’ll have an opportunity to interview with recruiters actively seeking developers with your qualifications. We call this opportunity Launch Day because we see it as the official launch of what’s bound to be a challenging but incredibly rewarding job search process. This event may be either in-person or virtual, depending on what's possible at the time.

All this support from our Career Success team—plus technical interview practice every morning of Senior Phase—pays off when Fullstack graduates go on to get hired at major companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, and LinkedIn but also at financial giants like JPMorgan and Amex and startups, edtech companies, e-commerce businesses, nonprofits, and more. Visit our hiring outcomes page to learn where else grads get hired and how much they end up making in their very first roles.