Founders and Coders
Course Overview
Course dates
Weeks 1 - 8: 28th October - 20th December
Reading week(s): 23rd December - 3rd January
Weeks 10 - 18: 6th January - 6th March
Weeks 1-8
A new topic each week
Workshops Monday and Tuesday
Group project Wednesday and Thursday
Code review and presentations on Friday
Weeks 1-8
Week 1 - Toolkit
Week 2 - Testing
Week 3 - APIs
Week 4 - Node Week 1
Week 5 - Node Week 2
Week 6 - PostgreSQL
Week 7 - Authentication
Week 8 - Express & Handlebars
Weeks 9-18
Week 9 - Reading week(s)
Week 10 - Design thinking
Weeks 11-12 - Group project
Week 13 - React week
Weeks 14-16 - Tech for Better project
Weeks 17-18 - Workshops + Interviews
Project groups, weeks 1- 8
Four groups of 4
Selected at random
You'll work with everyone before the break
Project groups, weeks 10 - 16
Four groups of 4
Self-selected
Stay together for 3 weeks
Tech for Better
Discovery workshops
Mondays, 4pm - 6pm
Weeks 3 - 7
We'll do a run-through in Week 2!
Evening mentoring
You'll need to sign up and mentor at some of our Monday meetups, short course sessions and evening workshops.
Meetups and workshops are on Mondays, from 18.30 - 20.30. Short course sessions are on Tuesdays, also 18.30 - 20.30.
You'll likely only have to help at 4 or 5 sessions over the whole course.