It’s July 11th, 2018 at App Academy’s San Francisco office, and Senior Instructor Cynthia Ma has a busy day ahead of her.

Cynthia is one of ten instructors at App Academy San Francisco that help students during the 13-week bootcamp. While at App Academy, instructors teach a fast-paced curriculum preparing students for careers as software developers. At the same, career coaches are also around to help students land high-paying jobs at companies like Google, Uber, Facebook and more.

App Academy is known as the top ranked bootcamp in the country thanks to the dedicated work of the instructional team. Instructors are in the office from 9:00AM to 6:00PM for the entire 13-week program (now, our 16-week Campus Hybrid program) to make sure students understand the material.

Cynthia is one of the instructors in charge of students succeeding in their day-to-day bootcamp experience. On this day, she lectures, meets with fellow instructors, and helps students with specific programming questions.

Check out her full day below!

8:30AM: Cynthia prepares for her lecture on user authentication

As an instructor, Cynthia gives one or two lectures per cohort at App Academy. At this point in the course, students are in their fourth week and they’ve just learned the web-application framework Rails. Soon they’ll start on the Javascript section of the curriculum. Today’s lecture is focused on User Authentication, logging users in and out in web applications.

The User Authentication lecture, also known as ‘User Auth,’ allows students to apply their Rails knowledge from the week before. They just learned about models and migrations