While this picture shows an in-person classroom, we have moved our school fully remote as a result of the COVID-19 situation.
If you want to learn how to code, there are generally three options to choose from:
- You can teach yourself and find your own curriculum.
- Go to college and get a computer science/IT degree.
- Or attend a coding school. Coding schools are hands-on crash courses that are designed to get you up to speed quickly so you can find your first software development job within three months to one year.
Option number one is the cheapest, but also the most frustrating and difficult. It’s so easy to get stuck along the way and want to give up.
Options two and three could work out well, if you can afford to take time off work (or at least work fewer hours), pay the tuition plus living expenses while you are attending and looking for a job, and still be able to manage your family and personal life. Not everyone is able to do that.
This is why we created freeCodeSchool Indy. It’s a free coding program based off of the freeCodeCamp curriculum where we guide students through part-time coding school programs for three months.
We have two two-hour classes per week - Monday and Wednesday from 6-8 pm, where we teach them everything from HTML basics to JavaScript and Intro to React.
The students are expected to spend at least 6 hours per week studying on their own, and can optionally attend office hours on Sundays that we hold from 1-5 pm. If they complete the first three months, then they are able to attend a second three month program, where they can learn about back-end web development in Node.js.
We started working on this idea over a year ago and it’s exciting to be able to say that we completed our first cohort in May. Now we can share what we have learned in this article.
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