Guide
New Year, New Career? Learning to Code in 2025!
Written By Jess Feldman
Edited By Liz Eggleston
Last updated on December 17, 2024
Written By Jess Feldman
Edited By Liz Eggleston
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Is your 2025 New Year’s resolution to make a career change into tech? You already know that a coding bootcamp can help you get there – 79% of bootcamp grads get jobs in tech and the average alum sees a 56% salary lift. The best way to stay on track is to break down your goal into smaller milestones – get started with our 5-step checklist and enroll at one of the full-time, part-time, in-person, or online programs we’ve compiled that have upcoming start dates in early 2024.
➡️ Keep in mind that some bootcamp programs require pre-work that can take 1–5 weeks to complete. Reach out to the admissions teams at the schools you’re interested in to learn more about prerequisites and figure out the best start date for your goals.
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✅ Give coding a try! While many bootcamps accept total beginners, you'll get a leg up by understanding coding basics like HTML, CSS, Java or Python. We recommend learning how to code with a free coding course first. Many bootcamps like Codesmith, Flatiron School, General Assembly, and The Tech Academy offer free coding workshops where you can learn how to code alongside other tech beginners. Free workshops are also a great way to get to know the instructional staff at a bootcamp to determine if it’s the right fit for you. |
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✅ Figure out which coding bootcamp is the right fit for you. Do your research, attend info sessions at the coding bootcamps that you’re interested in, and connect with bootcamp alumni to hear about their experience and get insights on different programs. You can use our guide to getting into a bootcamp to map out the steps in 2024. And if you’re not sure where to begin, we’re happy to help you locate some great programs with our quick, 5-question Get Matched tool! |
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✅ Enroll at a coding bootcamp. Look into scholarships, workforce development grants, and financing options like Income Share Agreements and Deferred Tuition that may make your bootcamp tuition more affordable. |
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✅ During the bootcamp, get active in the larger tech community to build your network and continue growing. Document your career change journey with weekly or monthly blog posts. Here are a few simple resolutions to keep leveling up: Give a technical talk. Read technical books. Contribute to open source projects. Find a mentor. |
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✅ Start your tech job hunt. Many coding bootcamps include career support and career coaches. While you’re on the job hunt, stay sharp by continuing to work on projects and learning new skills and languages, such as React JS and AI tools. |
Good luck! By New Year’s Eve 2024, you could be working in a truly fulfilling, challenging new role in software, machine learning, data science, AI, UX design – the possibilities are endless.
4Geeks Academy offers part-time and full-time software engineering, AI/machine learning, cybersecurity and blockchain/Web3 bootcamps online and at campuses in Florida, Canada, and across Europe and Latin America. Cohorts are kept small to ensure a 1:5 student-teacher ratio. Students will receive lifetime career support. Apply now!
Full-Time Software Developer Program (18 weeks)
Data Science & Machine Learning Program (16 weeks)
Cybersecurity Program (16 weeks)
Actualize is an online, intensive coding bootcamp that covers full stack Ruby, JavaScript, Python, ReactJS, Node.js and AI prompt engineering. Students will choose between the daytime (12:00PM-4:00PM EST) or evening (7:00PM-10:30PM EST) scheduling options of the 15-week bootcamp. Keep in mind that students must complete 5 weeks of at-home exercises before the first day of the bootcamp. Join an upcoming cohort and apply now!
Brainstation specializes in full-time tech bootcamps and part-time certificate courses both online and at campuses worldwide. The bootcamps at BrainStation cover software engineering, web development, data science, cybersecurity, UX design, and digital marketing. Both the bootcamps and courses are hands-on and project-driven where students interact with subject matter experts. Apply now!
Full-Time Software Engineering
Part-Time Software Engineering
Full-Time Web Development
Part-Time Web Development
Full-Time Data Science
Full-Time UX Design
Coder Academy offers an online web development bootcamp with on-campus support hubs in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. Coder Academy’s Accelerated Web Development Bootcamp is a full-time, Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA) accredited program and teaches participants HTML, Rails, JavaScript, CSS, Ruby, and more. The Standard Web Development Bootcamp, which requires about 21 hours per week, is designed for upskillers, career changers, and those wanting to return to the workforce through tech. Apply now for these upcoming cohorts!
Standard Web Development Bootcamp
Accelerated Web Development Bootcamp
Codesmith offers full-time and part-time, full stack software engineering bootcamps in New York City and online. The bootcamps program teaches full stack JavaScript and computer science to prepare students for mid- and senior-level software engineering roles. The curriculum immerses students in modern web technologies, such as React and Node.js, and encourages them to tackle unique and unfamiliar problems to prepare them for the ever-changing tech landscape. Codesmith also offers a 2-day JavaScript for Beginners intro course as well as a 2-week CS Prep course. Apply now!
Software Engineering Immersive - Full-Time
Software Engineering Immersive - Part-Time
Coding Temple offers online full-time, part-time, and self-paced flex bootcamps in Software Engineering, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, and QA Testing for career changers and upskillers. The full stack software engineering curriculum covers Python, Git, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Angular, React, jQuery, and Web API, and prepares students for both coding and data careers. Keep in mind that Coding Temple's welcome event is when students onboard, so it's technically the start of their cohort! Apply now to launch your tech career!
Software Engineering Bootcamp
With campuses across the U.S. and online, DigitalCrafts offers full-time, part-time, and Flex programs in web development and cybersecurity. DigitalCrafts keeps class-size small to allow for a more effective learning environment. Early enrollment financial incentives are sometimes available, so apply now for an upcoming bootcamp!
Software Development Immersive (Flex)
Cybersecurity (Flex)
With campuses in NYC, Denver, and online, Flatiron School offers full-time and part-time tech bootcamps in software engineering, data science, cybersecurity, and UI/UX product design. With over 20,000 alumni in their network, Flatiron School is geared towards career changers and incorporates 1:1 career coaching. Apply now for an upcoming winter cohort!
Full-Time Software Engineering
Part-Time Software Engineering
Full-Time Data Science
Part-Time Cybersecurity
Part-Time UX/UI Product Design
Fullstack Academy offers online full-time and part-time bootcamps in software engineering, cybersecurity, AI & machine learning, cloud computing, data analytics and product management. Fullstack Academy’s Prep in a Month course is best for students with some previous programming experience. Prep courses are free; participants are refunded upon completion of the course! These courses are a perfect way to get ready for Fullstack Academy’s full-time software engineering programs — Apply now!
Software Engineering Immersive - Full-Time
Software Engineering Immersive - Part-Time
Cybersecurity Analytics Bootcamp - Full-Time
Cybersecurity Analytics Bootcamp - Part-Time
AI & Machine Learning Bootcamp - Part-Time
Data Analytics Bootcamp - Full-Time
Data Analytics Bootcamp - Part-Time
General Assembly is an online and in-person tech training provider with full-time and part-time bootcamps and short courses in software engineering, data science, data analytics, UX design, digital marketing, and more. General Assembly teaches in-person at campuses in New York City, London, Paris, Singapore, and Sydney. The bootcamps at General Assembly were created with career changers in mind and include robust career services. Apply now for an upcoming cohort!
Full-Time Software Engineering
Part-Time Software Engineering
Full-Time Data Analytics
Full-Time UX Design
Part-Time UX Design
Hack Reactor by Galvanize offers immersive, online software engineering bootcamps. Students can choose between Hack Reactor's 19-Week Software Engineering Immersive with JavaScript and Python (which was designed for beginners) or the 12-Week Software Engineering Immersive. Students can prepare for the bootcamp with Hack Reactor's free Prep Course. Apply for an upcoming cohort now!
Beginner Full-Time Coding Bootcamp
Full-Time Coding Bootcamp
Institute of Code offers all-inclusive bootcamps in web development and social media in Bali and online with an emphasis on small class sizes. Teachers at Institute of Coden are actively working in the industry, so all content taught reflects the latest industry standards. The 8-week Web Development bootcamp is perfect for those who have little to no coding experience. Students will learn HTML, CSS and jQuery in order to design, create and build websites from scratch. Apply here!
Web Development Bootcamp
Ironhack offers full-time and part-time web development bootcamps online and in-person at campuses throughout Europe. The coding bootcamp curriculum covers HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ReactJS, and Node.js. Beginners are welcome to apply — Contact the Ironhack admissions team for more information!
Full-Time Web Development Bootcamp
Part-Time Web Development Bootcamp
LearningFuze offers full-time and part-time bootcamps with students learning full stack front end and back end development or data science at campuses in Irvine and Orange County, California or online. For anyone considering web development or data science, check out the Web Development Prep Course and Data Science Prep Course. Apply now to take your first step in becoming a developer!
Full-Time Web Development Bootcamp
Part-Time Web Development Bootcamp
Full-Time Data Science Bootcamp
Part-Time Data Science Bootcamp
Le Wagon is an international bootcamp, offering full-time and part-time, in-person and remote programs with a focus on bringing tech skills to creatives and entrepreneurs. Le Wagon graduates are proficient in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, APIs, Github, and Heroku. To prepare for the bootcamp, Le Wagon requires accepted students to complete forty hours of online work. Brush up on your coding skills now and apply to an upcoming cohort!
Web Development Bootcamp - Full-Time
Lighthouse Labs teaches full-time and part-time, online web development, data science, data analytics, and cyber security bootcamps. Apply now for an upcoming winter cohort!
Full-Time Online Bootcamps
Part-Time Flex Bootcamps
NYC Data Science Academy is an accredited data science, data analytics, and artificial intelligence bootcamp based in New York City and online. Bootcamps are geared towards students who have a Master’s degree or Ph.D. in Science, Technology, Engineering, Math or equivalent experience in quantitative science or programming. Apply now!
Data Science with Machine Learning
Data Analytics
Artificial Intelligence
Parsity offers an online, full stack software engineering bootcamp that features small cohort sizes of 10 students and 1:1 mentorship. The full stack curriculum covers HTML, CSS, Git, Github, JavaScript, APIs, React, Node.js, MongoDB, and SQL. There is also an intensive career development portion of the bootcamp to help students land a job in tech. The coding bootcamp can be completed in16 weeks (full-time) or 32 weeks (part-time). Parsity's dev30 is a 30-day, cohort-based JavaScript course that is perfect for tech beginners who are interested in the coding bootcamp. Apply now!
Online Coding School
Portnov Computer School offers online tech courses in QA testing that include an apprenticeship. The QA Flex course takes 16 weeks to complete, and meets in the evening. The QA Express course is a daytime program that takes 16 weeks to complete and meets three times a week. Apply here to join an upcoming course!
QA Courses
Sabio offers project-based, full-time and part-time coding bootcamps in Los Angeles and Orange County, California as well as online. Sabio's bootcamps focus on .NET/C# and students learn across the full-stack in Mobile, Front End, Back End, Source Control, Database and Development platforms. Apply now!
Full-Time Bootcamp
Springboard offer online bootcamps in Software Engineering, Data Science, Data Analytics, UX Design, and Cybersecurity, and their career tracks offer a job guarantee! At Springboard, students will the skills they need to launch a tech career while building a portfolio and working 1:1 with expert mentors. Apply now!
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Software Engineering Career Track
Software Engineering Career Track for Beginners
Cybersecurity Career Track
Data Science Career Track
Data Analytics Career Track
UI/UX Design Career Track
UX Design Career Track
Tech Elevator is offering full-time (14 weeks) and part-time (30 weeks) Java and .Net coding bootcamp with campuses across the U.S. as well as online. Java bootcamp students learn serverside programming in Java, database programming in Java, Java frameworks and design patterns, and clientside web programming (JavaScript, JQuery, Bootstrap, web services, XML, JSON.) .Net bootcamp students learn C#/.NET, serverside programming in C#/.NET, database programming in C#/.NET, C#/.NET frameworks and design patterns, and client side web programming (Javascript, JQuery, Bootstrap, web services, XML, JSON). Apply here to join the upcoming cohort!
Turing School of Software & Design offers 27-week, online, immersive Front End Engineering and Back End Engineering programs. The Front End Engineering program focuses on JavaScript and React while the Back End Engineering program covers Ruby on Rails and databases. Join an upcoming cohort and apply now!
Front End Engineering & Back End Engineering Cohorts
Jess Feldman is an accomplished writer and the Content Manager at Course Report, the leading platform for career changers who are exploring coding bootcamps. With a background in writing, teaching, and social media management, Jess plays a pivotal role in helping Course Report readers make informed decisions about their educational journey.
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