The Grace Hopper Program Experience
Top-Rated Coding Bootcamp
The Grace Hopper Program is a highly rated coding school in the US, and our student reviews reflect that.
Professional Results
Get hired with the support of professional career coaching designed to optimize your interpersonal skills and help build the ideal tech career for you.
Industry-Experienced Instructors
Learn from passionate programmers with tech industry experience. From large open-source libraries to quantum computer simulators, they’ve programmed it all.
In-Demand Curriculum
Graduate job-ready with a rigorous coding curriculum plus career success content focused on combating systemic barriers.
Real-World Coding Tools
Use popular developer tools like Git, Github, Bash, VS Code, and Chrome Dev Tools.
Culture of Collaboration
Work with others to improve your code and learn how to present it at the same time.
The Grace Hopper Program Experience
Top-Rated Coding Bootcamp
The Grace Hopper Program is a highly rated coding school in the US, and our student reviews reflect that.
Industry-Experienced Instructors
Learn from passionate programmers with tech industry experience. From large open-source libraries to quantum computer simulators, they’ve programmed it all.
Real-World Coding Tools
Use popular developer tools like Git, GitHub, VS Code, and Chrome Dev Tools.
Dedicated Career Coaching
Get hired with the support of professional career coaching designed to help you overcome barriers and launch your ideal career as a software engineer.
In-Demand Curriculum
Graduate job-ready with JavaScript coding skills and a portfolio to show potential employers.
Culture of Collaboration
Work in pairs and small teams to improve your code and learn how to present it in a professional context at the same time.
Why Choose a Full-Time Coding Bootcamp for Women
Comprehensive learning outcomes. The Grace Hopper Program full-time coding bootcamp is designed with the same curriculum concepts, web development projects, career support, and outcomes as the Fullstack Academy flagship Software Engineering Immersive. That means you don’t have to sacrifice valuable instruction in favor of a gender-allied learning community—you can have it all!
Accelerated instructional pace. Full-time coding bootcamp classes are held on weekdays during standard, Eastern business hours (10:00am - 5:00pm with a one-hour lunch break). This allows students to make rigorous bootcamp learning their primary focus and start reaping the rewards sooner—preparing to enter the field in about 16 weeks (4 months).
Community and Accountability. Regular attendance and outside-of-class study are a must for success in bootcamp learning, but can be difficult to maintain. According to the Pew Research Center, this is especially true for women and nonbinary coders, who often carry heavier domestic workloads than their male counterparts.
The Grace Hopper Program full-time coding bootcamp environment fosters a built-in community of peers with the shared goal of becoming professional software engineers. Through hands-on pair programming exercises and multiple channels of communication, students are able to assist, support, and motivate each other to reach their full potential throughout bootcamp and beyond.
Learn more about Grace Hopper Program career outcomes.
How It Works
The Grace Hopper Program web development curriculum is divided into 3 phases.
Timeline (Weeks)
Weeks
The live online, instructor-facilitated Full-Time Foundations phase is designed for beginners and intermediate-level coders looking to rapidly ramp up their skills in a bootcamp environment. For 6 weeks, you’ll study full-time (Monday-Friday) with other coders to prepare for the core curriculum of our Web Development Immersive.
Full-Time Foundations Web Development Curriculum
- HTML and CSS
- Introduction to JavaScript programming
- Advanced JavaScript including closure, prototypical inheritance, and recursion
- Web development environment and industry-standard tools
Full-Time Foundations Features
- Foundational coding concepts to support all skill levels
- Student-centered, inquiry-based learning in teams
- Instructor-facilitated, live online classroom format
- Immersive digital learning tools
- Hands-on, collaborative, and team-building projects
Core Curriculum: Junior Phase
Throughout this rigorous second phase, you’ll be studying full-time to master technical skills and professional coding communication.
Junior Phase Web Development Curriculum
Front-end development. User expectations of Web and Mobile Applications have significantly increased in the last 10 years, and the sophistication of front-end development has increased to match it. You will study HTML5 and advanced CSS, and go beyond with modern technologies like React.
Back-end development. You’ll take your JavaScript skills to the back-end with Node.js and the amazing ecosystem of libraries that have made JavaScript the industry standard of back-end web engineering. We’ll teach you to use APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to connect to vast amounts of data to power your web applications.
Databases. You will then master data organization and storage by working with popular SQL relational databases like Postgres, and learn how to integrate them into your applications.
Junior Phase Features
Pair Programming. Working with a fellow student, you’ll each use your newfound knowledge to write and optimize front-end and back-end code. This helps you build real-world experience and prepare for industry standard, technical coding interviews.
Interview Prep. You’ll learn the basics of standard interviewing Q&A and start to integrate these best practices into pair programming communications.
Core Curriculum: Senior Phase
At this point, you’ll have a solid understanding of the technologies taught in the immersive program. The Senior phase is your time to put that knowledge to use by building fully functional web applications from scratch. You will continue to study full-time during this phase–deepening your knowledge by solving real-world problems and applying best practices to your work.
Senior Phase Web Development Curriculum
- Guided team project. You’ll join a group of 3-4 students to collectively create a functional e-commerce site–building all the components of a web application including the front-end, back-end, and database.
- Personal project. After formulating your own idea for a web or mobile application, you’ll start to build it from scratch. You will take design considerations into account, like user experience and information architecture in addition to full stack development. You will learn new technologies or libraries in order to complete this project, which will help you learn how to learn advanced coding concepts throughout your career.
- Capstone project. You will work with a team of students to come up with an ambitious idea for an app, and build it out over 2 weeks. This will be the most impressive project in your portfolio and will demonstrate your full understanding of software development and industry best practices.
Senior Phase Features
- Career Coaching. Fullstack Academy’s Career Coaches are your one-stop professional development resource. They’ll work with you on core aspects of the job search–from technical interview preparation to resume optimization–throughout the Senior phase of your coding journey and beyond.
- Hopper Talks. You’ll also have access to specialized career success content during this phase. These “Hopper Talks” are open discussions around gender inequality in tech, with particular emphasis on navigating company culture, combating imposter syndrome, and negotiating salary.
What You'll Learn
The Grace Hopper Program Full-Time Software Engineering Bootcamp utilizes an in-demand, JavaScript-based core curriculum.
Curriculum (Units)
Units
Foundations On-Ramp
The Software Engineering Immersive begins with a comprehensive Foundations on-ramp to support both intermediate and beginner coders. Designed to help all students reach a uniform skill level, Foundations covers the basic tenets of programming to prepare for the core curriculum—which moves through more advanced, specialized JavaScript concepts at a rapid bootcamp pace.
Foundational Software Engineering Curriculum
HTML and CSS
Introduction to JavaScript programming
Advanced JavaScript including closure, prototypical inheritance, and recursion
Web development environment and industry-standard tools
Foundations On-Ramp Features
Supports learners of all skill levels
Student-centered, inquiry-based learning in teams
Instructor-facilitated, live online classroom format
Immersive digital learning tools
At the end of this unit, you will complete a project to apply your skills
You’ll study HTML5, CSS, and advanced CSS—and go beyond with fundamental Javascript concepts.
Technologies
HTML5
CSS
JavaScript
Git and GitHub
Concepts
- Web Interface and Design - You’ll learn how content and imagery are best displayed on a website.
- Front-End Framework - You’ll start to understand pre-written modules and their primary use cases in web development.
Features
- Pair Programming - Working with a fellow student, you’ll each use your newfound knowledge to write and optimize front-end code. This helps you build real-world experience and prepare for technical coding interviews.
You’ll apply your JavaScript skills with the amazing ecosystem of libraries that have made JavaScript the industry standard of web engineering. We’ll also teach you to use APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) to connect to vast amounts of data to power your web applications.
Technologies
JavaScript
JavaScript APIs
React, React Router, and React Hooks
Redux
Concepts
- Test-Driven Development (TDD) - Particularly relevant in JavaScript development, the TDD methodology allows developers to test new code before writing it—preserving its former iteration in case of incompatibilities or errors.
Features
- Prototyping - Throughout bootcamp, you’ll begin each project by scoping, researching, and beginning to build full stack web applications—touching on every stage of a typical, real-world prototype development process.
You’ll master data organization and storage by working with SQL relational databases and learn how to integrate them into your applications. Then, it’s time to start building your own full stack application!
Technologies
JavaScript
SQL
Projects
- Full Stack Capstone Project - You will work with a team of students to come up with an ambitious idea for an app, and start building it out. This will be the most impressive project in your portfolio and will demonstrate your full understanding of software development and industry best practices.
- Full Stack Project Pitching - After formulating your own idea for a web or mobile application, you’ll pitch it to the class. Taking market, design, and utility considerations into account, you’ll understand through your pitch process how development projects come to fruition in real-world scenarios.
Features
- Portfolio Development - As you complete your full stack web development projects, all your code will be housed in GitHub to demonstrate your technical prowess and creativity to potential employers.
- Career Coaching - Grace Hopper Program Career Coaches are your one-stop professional development resource. They’ll work with you on core aspects of the job search–from interview preparation to resume optimization–throughout the final stages of your bootcamp experience and beyond.
What We Look For in Grace Hopper Program Students
The Web Development Immersive at the Grace Hopper Program is designed to be both challenging and rewarding. Our curriculum provides all the tools you need to succeed, including an immersive live online environment, expert instructional material, optimized learning tools, and engaging activities.
It’s our remarkable student experiences and outcomes that truly set us apart, though. For these, we rely on the commitment of the entire Grace Hopper Program community–its current students, staff, and alums. That’s why we only admit prospective students who we feel meet or exceed these qualifications.
Commitment
The bootcamp starts at a foundational level to accommodate both beginner and intermediate coders, but moves into more advanced concepts every week. To ensure comprehension, you’ll need to maintain a near-perfect attendance record.
Drive
Coding bootcamps are built for accelerated learning to launch your career sooner. That means topics will be covered quickly, and you may need to set aside additional time for study, mentorship, or skills practice to stay on track.
Transparency
You’ll have support every step of the way, but it is up to you to communicate your specific needs. Be sure to master regular, honest correspondence across all channels to collaborate effectively with others.
Allyship
More than teamwork alone, allyship requires respect, empathy, and understanding. Students should be aligned with our mission - to transform lives and communities with technologies that power the future - and committed to equity and diversity in tech.
Tuition and Dates
Students need to make an initial deposit at enrollment, then pay the remaining balance due on the first day of the cohort.
Grace Hopper Program is committed to making tech education more accessible, so we’re reducing the enrollment deposit to $99* (normally $2,000) for a limited time. Get started on your journey before the deposit increases!
Tuition: $19,910
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Enrollment Deposit -
$2,000$99*Tuition During Program - $19,811
Total Tuition - $19,910
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Keep in mind that Grace Hopper Program does not endorse, recommend, or promote any particular lender. The payment choice is at the discretion of you, the student. If you decide to use a personal loan, make sure to choose the option that works best for you.
Personal loans may also be available through your personal financial institution.
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VET TEC funding can be used to pay for select Fullstack Academy and Grace Hopper Program bootcamps. Check with your local VA office to see if you are eligible.
*Offer eligibility: Upon admittance into the program, pay the $99 deposit in full prior to the enrollment date.
Learn more about each of these ways to invest in your bootcamp education.
Tuition & Payment Options
Students must make an initial deposit at enrollment, then pay the remaining balance due on the first day of the cohort.
The Grace Hopper Program is committed to making tech education more accessible, so we’re reducing the enrollment deposit to $99* (normally $2,000) for a limited time. Get started on your journey before the deposit increases!
Tuition: $19,910
Learn more about each of these ways to finance your bootcamp education.
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Grace Hopper Web Development Immersive
Enrollment Deposit -
$2,000$99*
Tuition During Program: $19,811
Total Tuition: $19,910 -
Keep in mind that Fullstack Academy and the Grace Hopper Program do not endorse, recommend, or promote any particular lender. The payment choice is at the discretion of you, the student. If you decide to use a personal loan, make sure to choose the option that works best for you.
Personal loans may also be available through your personal financial institution.
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VET TEC and VRRAP funding can be used to pay for select Fullstack Academy and Grace Hopper Program bootcamps. Check with your local VA office to see if you are eligible.
*Reduced enrollment deposit offer eligibility: Upon admittance into the program, pay the $99 deposit in full prior to the enrollment date.
Learn more about each of these ways to finance your bootcamp education.
Timeline (Hours)
Hours
10:00am-10:30am
Your morning starts with a self-led review of notes and other learning materials to prepare for class.
10:30am-11:30am
You’ll receive live instruction from a Fullstack Academy instructor, followed by a real-time demonstration of each new concept.
11:30am-1:00pm
The class then breaks into groups or pairs for a collaborative coding session facilitated via a highly interactive video conferencing platform. Pair programming is an essential skill for any developer and also aids in the learning process by cultivating skills like reading documentation and thinking creatively to solve programming challenges.
1:00pm-2:00pm
You will take an hour-long break to recharge and refuel. Many of our students take advantage of this time to get some exercise as well, which helps to get them energized for the rest of the day.
2:00pm to 5:00pm
The afternoon consists of additional instruction or a continuation of pair exercises. Your instructor or teaching mentors are then available to review your code and answer any questions you may have via our learning management system.
Upcoming Cohorts
Professional Career Coaching
Throughout the course, Grace Hopper Program students will gain valuable insight into how to secure meaningful, lucrative employment. A career-oriented curriculum combines with experience-informed career coaching to support your full personal, technical, and professional potential as a software engineer. You’ll receive guidance in:
Growing your professional network
Building and expressing your personal brand, skill set, and unique talents
Optimizing your resume and LinkedIn profile
Acing interviews and assessments
Negotiating your salary
Combating imposter syndrome and other systemic barriers
Navigating company culture fit as an underrepresented professional
With full transparency around challenges disproportionally faced by women and gender nonconforming professionals in tech, our instructors and career coaches are focused on helping you achieve your idea of success.
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Software Engineering Bootcamp Daily Schedule
You’ll get a full live online classroom experience with your classmates and instructors through a mix of live instruction, coding exercises, and team projects. No two days are the same, but here’s an example of what a typical day looks like in the Software Engineering Immersive full-time schedule.
Admissions Process
1. Prepare
The Grace Hopper Program curriculum is designed to accommodate all skill levels, but you should start practicing the basics, scheduling additional weekly study time, and optimizing your tech specs upfront.
2. Apply
Apply online whenever you’re ready, or contact a student advisor to learn more. You can also attend an upcoming online info session for guidance—from admissions to payment options.
3. Assessment
Once you’ve applied, we’ll contact you to complete a no-risk online coding assessment. This is a timed exercise with a 30-minute allotment designed to help determine your starting skill level.
4. Decision
We’ll review your completed application and alert you of your admissions status in as few as 1-3 business days.
Professional Career Coaching
Throughout the course, Grace Hopper Program students will gain valuable insight into how to secure meaningful, lucrative employment as a web developer. You’ll receive guidance in:
- Growing your professional network
- Optimizing your resume and LinkedIn profile
- Acing interviews and assessments
- Negotiating your salary
- Combatting imposter syndrome
- Navigating company culture fit
With full transparency around challenges disproportionally faced by women and gender nonconforming professionals in tech, our instructors and career coaches are focused on helping you achieve your idea of success.
Grace Hopper Grads Get Hired
Admissions Process
1. Prepare
The Grace Hopper Program curriculum is designed to accommodate all skill levels, but you may want to start practicing the basics, scheduling additional weekly study time, and optimizing your tech specs upfront.
2. Apply
Apply online whenever you’re ready, or contact a student advisor to learn more. You can also attend an upcoming online info session for guidance every step of the way–from assessment prep to financing.
3. Assessment
Once you’ve applied, we’ll contact you to complete a no-risk online coding assessment. This is a timed exercise with a 30-minute allotment designed to help you understand your starting skill level.
4. Decision
We’ll review your completed application and alert you of your admissions status in as few as 1-3 business days!
