SwitchUp is an online coding and computing programing platform.
Students use the website to research online and offline programming courses by reading alumni reviews, connecting with mentors in the forum, taking an online quiz, and reading industry studies.
SwitchUp only accepts reviews from verified alumni and has a verification process.
History
SwitchUp was started by Jonathan Lau after attending a
coding bootcamp
Coding bootcamps are intensive programs of software development. They first appeared in 2011.
History
The first coding bootcamps were opened in 2011.
As of July 2017, there were 95 full-time coding bootcamp courses in the United States. The leng ...
in Boston. He launched SwitchUp with a small team, and left the first review on the website.
SwitchUp aims to add transparency to the technology education industry.
The website was launched in August 2014.
Product
As of October 2020, the site had over 20,000 reviews of 1000 different programming bootcamps and courses across 30 different countries.
Switch guides students on a career path, recommends bootcamps, and aggregates alumni reviews.
Research Publications and Rankings
SwitchUp regularly publishes industry research
and bootcamp rankings.
They also put out data science, cyber security, and web design rankings.
They also offer scholarship information and listings for bootcamps that accept the GI Bill.
In a job outcomes study conducted by researchers published on Dec 1, 2016, the following trends were found:
* 63% of graduates reported increase in salary
* 80% of graduates reported they were 'satisfied' or 'very satisfied'
* Average class size is 30 students with a 1-to-3.8 student instructor ratio
* A one-tailed paired-difference test showed that the increase in salary was statistically significant at the 95% level
SwitchUp also published the 2018 best coding bootcamp rankings on December 31, 2018.
See also
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Code.org
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Codecademy
Codecademy is an American online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 13 different programming languages including Python, Java, Go, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, C++, C#, Lua, and Swift, as well as markup languages HTML ...
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Team Treehouse
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Udacity
Udacity, Inc. is an American global for-profit massive open online course provider. It was founded by Sebastian Thrun, David Stavens, and Mike Sokolsky offering massive open online courses.
According to Thrun, the origin of the name Udacity com ...
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Dev Bootcamp
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External links
SwitchUp
Computer programming
American review websites