Founders and Coders offer a 16-week full-stack JavaScript course for 16 students that fulfill the pre-requisites and are accepted after being interviewed. The course for cohort 14 started on 2 July and ended 19 October 2018.
Learning 💻
The first half of the course is focused only on learning and each week introduced a new topic acccodring to the schedule below:
| Day | Activity |
|---|---|
| Monday | Workshops, Client workshops |
| Tuesday | Workshops, Research |
| Wednesday | Workshops, Team project, Guest speaker |
| Thursday | Team project |
| Friday | Code review, Team project presentations, Stop-Go-Continue (SGC), Guest speaker |
Click here to see my outcomes and learnings from each week.
The second half of the course is focused on two 3-week projects addressing a specific real-world problem:
- Student project: A chatbot developed to address a problem suggested by one of the students. Click here to read more about my student project: VentBot.
- Client project: An app for medical students to practice for the OSCE (objective structured clinical examination), a soft-skill exam where students are graded on their interation with actors posing as patinets. Click here to read more about my client project: OSCEBossKey
Throughout the entire course we also:
- All programming (workshops, projects and code review) done as pair or mob-programming
- Have weekly SGC meetings discussing improvements to the course for the next cohort
- Run weekly workshops with clients in the tech for good sector
- Host meetups for other prospective students who want to apply to future cohorts and a 'Coding for Women' meetup open to the general public
- Mentor the next cohort for one week