If you’re looking for the absolute best way to get into the mobile development industry, in the shortest possible amount of time, then you might be a great fit for our live cohort Accelerator bootcamps! In 15 weeks you can go from mobile developer novice to having a significant amount of experience building mobile apps — and you’ll be ready to apply for your first job in the high-demand industry of mobile app development.

If the fairly aggressive pace and fixed live-session time and schedule doesn't fit your needs, we recommend waiting for the launch of our Self-Paced iOS and Android programs, targeted for late 2023. These programs will be more asynchronous and will allow students to learn on their own schedule and at a pace they can control. 

All of our Accelerator bootcamps are offered in an online format. Although most of the program is completed on your own time, there will be two 1-hour live-sessions (virtual meetings) offered per week (Eastern time). Attendance for at least 50% of these live-sessions is required for graduation, as they are critical to your success in this program.

We recommend that you have some prior exposure to coding or programming (see the next question for more on experience needed).

You’ll need a fairly modern Windows, Mac or Linux computer to install and run the tools and frameworks needed for this course. Check out the individual bootcamp pages for more details on what specific hardware requirements each program has. 

You'll also need an internet connection capable of  joining video meetings and streaming or downloading video content. If you'll be traveling during the bootcamp, please consider internet connection issues.

We recommend that you have some prior exposure to coding or programming before starting the bootcamp. While you don't have to have prior knowledge of mobile development, it does help.

If you are in the situation of having less prior experience, you can still succeed at the bootcamp, but as the pace can be aggressive, expect to need more time for studying, and be ready to ask your mentors lots of questions (they love questions!). Students who have worked through our Your First App video courses for iOS or Android should be reasonably prepared for our bootcamps if they have the time to learn.

If you think you'll need to go slower than the pace required for our live bootcamp cohorts, we plan to offer a self-paced, more asynchronous program later in 2023. We hope this can accommodate more students!

If you're considering the Flutter bootcamp, then it's required that you have some experience building and shipping iOS and Android apps.

No. These programs are cohort-based, meaning everyone starts and finishes on the same schedule, so all students must start the bootcamp on the planned start date. If the schedule doesn't work for you, we hope to offer more programs in the future.

If you have to withdraw from the bootcamp before it begins, you may request a refund by emailing support@kodeco.com before the program's start date.

After the bootcamp begins, the bootcamp price is non-refundable. We may be able to offer partial refunds for extenuating circumstances, or move you to a future program. Please discuss your particular situation with your mentors and we’ll see what we can do.

Each week of the bootcamp, you'll be given two assignments: 

• The Content Assignment, which assigns you the books, video courses, and articles you need to read or watch to learn that week’s topic. This assignment
• The Homework Assignment, which gives you a challenge that will let you apply your learnings and demonstrate mastery of them.

Each homework assignment is created to let students create part of their Capstone App, and each assignment builds on the last. You’ll be applying the lessons you learned from the content of the week to build part of your Capstone project, and each assignment has a rubric to guide you so you know what you need to build for a passing grade. You should expect to spend between 5 and 10 hours each week on your homework.

We understand that everyone has different schedules - one person might intend to work on the bootcamp primarily during the weekends, while another might have work or family commitments on the weekends and thus can only work on the bootcamp during the week.

Unfortunately, our Accelerator bootcamps are not set up for students who can only work during the weekend or only on weeknights. While we are very sympathetic to difficult schedules, our bootcamps are built around having students work through the content and assignments together. 

We’ve found that letting students work ahead results in confusion. The students who work ahead wind up asking questions about that ahead-of-schedule content or homework, which makes students who aren’t working ahead anxious about feeling behind, or confused about what the work-ahead students are talking about. The stated release schedule is a compromise so that the majority of students can succeed by working through the content together.

If the assignment release schedule doesn’t work for you, this bootcamp program may not be a good fit. We hope to launch a work-at-your-own-pace in the future, which may work better for your needs.

In short, no. Our mentors are generally working devs who have full-time jobs themselves, and aren’t paid to provide on-call video chat support for students. But don't worry - we train you in the right way to get your questions answered! You'll learn and practice how to troubleshoot any problem you run into asynchronously via text in our dedicated bootcamp chat channel. You'll need this skill throughout your developer career.

If, during the bootcamp, you fall behind and feel you would benefit from individual tutoring, you can talk to the bootcamp coordinator about options.

Each bootcamp includes an optional curriculum of job-search and interview prep content. Students can also at any time ask their mentors, who have been through hiring processes many times, for interview and job-hunting advice. Many of our mentors have even been in the position of hiring new employees before, so they are well-suited to help you navigate and stand out in the challenging world of technical interviews.

Each program will have a mock interview session (held during normal live-session times) in the penultimate week of the bootcamp, to help those pursuing a career as a mobile developer.

The live-session time is always in Eastern Time (ET), so it will be affected by Daylight Savings. See more about the ET zone here. 

For those areas of the world who don’t have time zones that change times based on Daylight Savings Time each fall/spring (or who are in time zones that switch at different weeks than ET does), we apologize for how complicated this gets!

• The ET time zone changes during the year based on Daylight Savings Time. 
• Eastern Standard Time (EST) is 5 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and is in effect from the first Sunday in November to the second Sunday in March.
• Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) is 4 hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and is in effect from the second Sunday in March to the first Sunday in November.
• If the Daylight Savings switch happens during your bootcamp, it will affect the live-session time. The mentors and Bootcamp Coordinator will remind students ahead of the time change.