Web Development course in Amsterdam | Le Wagon
In 9 intensive weeks in Amsterdam, learn all the skills of a Software Developer, code your own web applications from scratch and change your career.
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Overview
Join a unique Web Development course
Our web development course in Amsterdam is an immersive experience that takes you from beginner to junior software developer in 9 weeks. At the end of the course, you will know how to build a robust and user-friendly software that answers your users’ needs, and to follow the right workflow to collaborate with other developers, designers and product managers.
Le Wagon: a life-changing experience
- 15,970+ graduates
- 3650+ products built
- 200+ startups launched
Curriculum
Our course curriculum
Our web development course in Amsterdam is designed to make you learn to code step by step, until you can build your own web applications from scratch.
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Get ready for the bootcamp
Our Web Development Course is very intense. To save time and nail it from the beginning, our students must complete the PrepWork on our custom-built platform before starting the bootcamp. This work takes around 40 hours and gives our students a basic knowledge of:
- Web 101, how the web works
- Terminal basic commands
- Git basic commands
- HTML / CSS foundations
- JavaScript foundations
- Tech workflows and tools in a startup
Developer tools & workflow
Work with the right developer tools and workflow. Learn the basics of the command line, use a code text editor and install Ruby with a version management tool. Get familiar with most useful developer packages and learn how to version your code with git and push it on Github.
Programming Basics in Ruby
Write programs manipulating variables, loops, conditions and data structures (Array and Hash). Detect text patterns with Regular Expressions and start parsing data from structured files (CSV, JSON, XML, HTML) fetched using web-scraping or by building requests to JSON APIs.
Software Architecture
Structure your software following Object-Oriented principles. Learn the Model-View-Controller pattern in-depth (most common application design pattern) by coding several MVC softwares from scratch. You will have to code everything on your own, even simulating your database storing data in CSV files.
Relational Database, SQL & ORM
Learn to design a relational database schema and to build structured queries to your database with SQL. Build simple CRUD queries (Create, Read, Update, Delete) or advanced JOIN queries. Learn to connect your database to your ruby software with an ORM (Object Relational Mapping) called Active Record.
Frontend Development
Build your web pages following atomic design principles and code your own UI kit of web components & layouts by applying the latest CSS techniques. Build pages with an adaptive design thanks to media queries and learn to quickly prototype a web app with Bootstrap 4.0 and its responsive grid system.
ES6
Learn ES6, your second programming language after ruby, to add dynamic behaviors to your website or update pages without reloading thanks to AJAX. Understand JavaScript fundamental concepts and learn to use all the necessary JS web tools like Babel, Webpack or yarn.
Ruby on Rails
Wrap it all together by coding your first Ruby on Rails applications. Deploy your applications in production & start coding “the Rails way”. Go deep into Rails discovering advanced concepts like nested resources, namespaces, or how to refactor an app with services or to build an API with Rails.
Cloning Airbnb in teams
Code a clone of Airbnb from scratch in 5 days. You will work in teams to learn to collaborate on Github using pull requests and deploy your apps on Heroku, using the same workflow as successful startups. Implement advanced features (payment, image upload, search, geocoding, background jobs, etc…) and learn to cover your code with tests.
Turn an idea into a product in 2 weeks
Projects Phase is the ultimate experience of the course: invent, pitch, design, code and deploy an original project in teams of 3 or 4 people during the two final weeks. You will have to go through all the process from the idea to the live app in production on a real domain name, ready to be tested on the market!
- Define the Product’s target users and unique value proposition
- Build an interactive prototype with Figma to validate the UX
- Split the work in your teams by defining and assigning user stories
- Code the web application from scratch: from the back-end to the user interface
- Deploy your app on a production environment
- Pitch your product during the Demo Day!
Career Services
We help our students find a job by preparing them for technical interviews, organising job fairs, startup office hours and coaching sessions with tech recruiters and alumni. We have helped our 15,972+ graduates find their dream job!
React.js Extension Course
After the bootcamp, all our alumni get access to Le Wagon’s one-week online extension training in React.js and Redux. A very useful course for our students who want to go deeper in front-end development or apply to front-end developer jobs.
Lifelong Access to our Online Platform
Our alumni keep a lifelong access to our online platform with 300+ challenges, 100+ hours of video lessons to re-watch any time after the bootcamp, 100+ live-codes and tutorials on real-life developer examples and 900+ flashcards to rehearse core concepts.
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Slack & Community
Our 15,972+ alumni discuss every day on Le Wagon’s Slack channels after the course, getting help from our 900+ teachers, sharing tips, resources, code snippets, job offers and news from their products. An engaged and passionate tech community, all over the world.
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Le Wagon was a truly amazing experience. I loved every minute of it. It gave me the support and access to the knowledge and resources I needed to kick start my development career, in an extremely motivating and challenging (fun) environment.
Willem Poghisyo Van KlinkenBack-end Developer at DigitaleChecklisten.nl
Typical day
A typical day at Le Wagon Amsterdam
From morning lectures to evening talks, every day is in Amsterdam action-packed.
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Lectures09:00 – 10:30
Grab a coffee and start every morning with an engaging & interactive lecture, before putting what you’ve learnt into practice.
Challenges10:30 – 16:00
Pair up with your buddy for the day, and work on a series of programming challenges with the help of our teaching staff.
Yoga (Optional)16:00 – 17:00
Learning to code can be very intense. If you want, you can make the most of the yoga classes we organize on certain days to relax and take a break.
Live-code17:00 – 18:00
Review the day’s challenges and get an overview of upcoming lessons during live code sessions.
Events (Optional)18:00 – 20:00
Be inspired and get priceless advice from successful entrepreneurs invited for exclusive talks.
Career week
Career Week
At the end of the bootcamp, you are welcome to join our Career Week. This week gives you the tools you need to take the next steps in your career, whether it is finding your first job in tech, building a freelance career, or launching a start-up.
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Workshops
Benefit from a combination of panel discussions, workshops, presentations, and assignments to help you find the right career path.
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Becoming job-ready
Prepare your personal profile, complete job applications, prepare for technical challenges, and make a game plan for after the bootcamp!
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Inspiration
Hear from alumni about their post-Bootcamp journeys and what a typical day looks like in their new careers.
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Custom-made
You can join any workshops or watch any tutorials that you are interested in. You create your own career week according to your interests and objectives
- Discover career paths
- Prepare for a job application
- Prepare for technical challenges
- Apply for jobs
- Game plan post bootcamp
Portfolio
Build your developer portfolio.
During our web development course in Amsterdam, you learn the essentials of programming while building your own web applications. As a result, you end up the course with a rich Github portfolio containing at least two fully-functional web applications – an Airbnb-like marketplace and your own final project.
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Teachers
Passionate teachers
Since day one, we’ve taken teaching seriously. Great teachers inspire us to connect to topics on a profound level. Experience as a developer alone doesn’t necessarily make one an effective teacher — that’s why we’re passionate about finding not only great engineers, but deeply committed, experienced teachers.
Francesca Santoriello
After having worked in Advertising, Francesca decided to change industries and begin her journey in Tech. She joined Le Wagon as a student and fell in love with coding, and with the Le Wagon spirit. She’s now Teacher and a freelancer Web Developer.
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Matthieu de Hemptinne
After his data engineering studies Matthieu took part in our Web Development bootcamp. After seeing how qualitative the bootcamp was, he first became a TA and, more recently, a teacher to further improve his skills and share work experiences.
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Daniel Mendez
After working as an Industrial Designer, Daniel wanted to make the change into Web Development. He took part in the Web Development bootcamp and has now joined the Amsterdam team first as a TA and then as a Teacher!
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Danko Beribak
Since graduating, Danko has been a teacher for Le Wagon in Mexico City, Copenhagen and Amsterdam. Danko is eager to learn and share his knowledge with others and loves contributing to open source projects and working on new and exciting technologies.
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Incredibly challenging experience into which you dive blindly and with enthusiasm, great quality, positive energy and creative minds, friendly and not pretentious.
Margaux NoëlFull-stack Developer at Ace & Tate
Community & tools
Community and tools for life
Amsterdam Web Development course is just the beginning of the journey. Once you graduate, you belong to a global community and have access to our online platform to keep learning and growing.
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Slack communities
Get tips and advice from professional developers, access exclusive job and freelance opportunities, find support for your project launch.
Online platform
Access our online education platform at any time after the web development course, with lectures, screencasts, flashcards and challenges.
Additional resources
Benefit from advanced tutorials in software development to push your computer science skills further and keep on learning and practicing after the bootcamp.
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Global network
Receive unique job and freelance opportunities from Le Wagon’s alumni who work as developers, product managers and entrepreneurs in successful tech companies all over the world.
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One of the best things I’ve ever done, would 100% recommend it to anyone who wants to learn to code. A life changing experience.
Diosa TaylorFull-stack Developer at AdCombi
Career services
Find a job in the best tech companies in Amsterdam
Once the web development course ends, you benefit from our career services. We help you prepare for tech interviews, meet the best recruiters in Amsterdam and connect with relevant alumni.
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Career Playbook
Access a complete guide to kick-start your tech career after the course in Amsterdam: boost your portfolio, prepare for technical interviews, leverage on our 15,972 alumni community.
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Career Events
Attend our job fairs and networking events, meet with the best tech companies and receive offers from recruiters looking for talent in tech-related roles.
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Alumni Coaching Sessions
Our alumni often come back to share their post-bootcamp experiences. You will learn about how they found a job, started their own company or freelancing career.
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Career Intros
In addition to Slack channels, our local teams know their alumni and what they’re up to – we often introduce relevant people to each other to create synergies.
Student outcomes
They hire our Web Development grads in Amsterdam
The best companies partner with Le Wagon and hire our alumni as Web Developers, Product Managers, Growth Hackers or Product Designers.
Hired 1 graduates
Tiphanie Tourniaire
Project Manager
Hired 1 graduates
Friso Jelsma
Senior Consultant
Hired 1 graduates
Diosa Taylor
Full-stack Developer
Hired 3 graduates
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Lila Sour
Sales
Antoine Cathelin
Project Manager
Axel Stoltenberg
Technical Support Engineer
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Amelie Beurrier
Product Manager
Charles Cazals
Data Analyst
Angeline Johanne Bilodeau
General Manager
Wenzhu Chen
Business Analyst
Marianne Benkamoun
Business Analyst
Davide Zanetto
Program Manager
Henry Knight
Program Manager
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Neringa Daniulaityte
Project Manager
Juanito Alvaro
Back-end Developer
Anaísa Silva
Data Scientist
Financing options
Find the right financing option for you
Find out if you are eligible for special offers in Amsterdam.
Training budget with STAP
The STAP training budget is released by the Dutch Government. With this budget, any eligible citizen can get up to €1,000 in funding to upskill themselves.
You can now apply to the STAP budget and get a €1,000 discount on one of our bootcamps.
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Study Advance with TechMeUp
TechMeUp offers students a financial peace of mind by providing them financial assistance. They do this by issuing interest-free loans from 1500-7500 euro, intended for tuition fee and/or living allowance. Students will pay the money back once they have a job, so the money can be lent to the next student.
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Learning Loan with Finance4Learning
Finance4Learning offers you an opportunity to pay for your course in 72 months (6 years). Finance4Learning is backed by e.g. Banco Santander, the no. 4 bank in the world which for this market is supported by the European Investment Fund. This particular service is aimed at private individuals.
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Periodic Scholarship with SheSharp
SheSharp is a European nonprofit dedicated to helping underrepresented individuals enter, stay, and grow in the tech industry. They offer periodic scholarships to support women and gender nonconforming people transitioning into tech. Have a look at their website to find out more about your eligibility and their scholarship availability.
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Instalments – Pay as you learn
Pay your tuition in instalments, where a deposit of €2,500 is made to secure your seat in the bootcamp. Following this, the remaining balance can be paid over monthly instalments while you learn (prices vary depending on the program).
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Upfront – Pay before you start
A deposit of €2,500 is due upon signature of the contract, and the remaining balance is paid 1 week before the bootcamp start date.
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The most acclaimed Coding Bootcamp
Le Wagon has 2395 reviews with an average grade of 4.98/5 which makes it the most acclaimed coding bootcamp worldwide on Switchup according to student reviews! Whilst these reviews make us proud, above all they make us happy. Behind these reviews are hundreds of people around the world who have had a life-changing experience joining our program, which has opened new doors for them. We feel blessed and honoured to have enabled them – and to keep enabling our students – to become autonomous in coding, upskill or change their career, or launch their own startups.
Also, these 2395 reviews are extremely important for us to make sure we’re always meeting the same level of excellence. Having such positive and enthusiastic reviews about our bootcamps is the ultimate proof that we provide the best tech education for all our students, in the 39 cities we run our coding bootcamps in.