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The twelve weeks, Who teaches, Cost, Apply
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One article, published: “The migration that locked the table”
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Twelve-week bootcamp, at €6,900
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You can learn a framework from documentation in a fortnight. What you cannot learn alone is the part nobody writes down: how to read a codebase you did not write, what a reviewer is actually asking for, why the thing that worked locally fell over at nine in the morning.
That is what twelve weeks with six people per mentor buys, and it is the only reason this costs what it costs.
Every pull request read by somebody who still ships.
Mentors write code somewhere else at least two days a week. It is the only way the material stays true.
12weeks, full time
6people per mentor
480pull requests reviewed
The twelve weeks
01Weeks 1–2 — the groundBefore anything is built
Reading a codebase you did not writeweek 1
Version control as it is actually usedweek 1
Tests that are worth keepingweek 2
02Weeks 3–6 — the serviceYou build one, from nothing
Schema first, and what that costs laterweek 3
HTTP, honestlyweek 4
Authentication without inventing any of itweek 5
Background work and the queue you will regretweek 6
03Weeks 7–10 — productionWhere courses usually stop
Deploying something you can roll backweek 7
Logs, metrics, and being woken upweek 8
The migration that locked the tableweek 9
Security review, on your own codeweek 10
04Weeks 11–12 — outAnd six months afterwards
The project you will be interviewed aboutweek 11
Technical interviews, practisedweek 12
Who teaches
Your name here
Engineer, and the person reviewing your work
Three sentences about why you are the person teaching this. What you have built, what broke, and what you learned from the part that broke.
Mentors are engineers who still work. Anybody teaching here writes code somewhere else at least two days a week, which is the only way the material stays true.
Fifteen years shipping
200 graduates
Still writes code daily
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A second one, from somebody at a different stage. The ones that convince are specific: what changed, and how long it took.
A third. If you have only one, delete the other two — three invented quotes are worse than one real one.
Two hours of code at home, then thirty minutes with a mentor. No CV, no cover letter, no interview about your passion.
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Questions
Can I work while doing this?
No, and anybody who says otherwise is selling you twelve weeks you will not turn up to. It is forty hours a week.
Do you guarantee a job?
No. We give six months of introductions, review, and interview practice, and we publish the numbers. A guarantee at this price is a refund policy with a marketing budget.
What if I fail the entry test?
You get the marked test back with what to work on, and you may sit it again after eight weeks. Most people who come back pass.
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