(Good news: laundry is also free! Bad news: you have to pay the dorm $75 a week if you want two meals a day.) Admittedly, it sounds totally crazy.īy comparison, programming boot camps have become big business across the United States.
This program began in January 2018, so we don't have any graduates yet.Welcome to 42 US, a free (as in beer) coding school, which opened just last month. We do not provide visas and do not provide any assistance with visas. However, 42 has strong relationships with employers and companies in the area and already has internship and hiring programs with companies specifically for 42 students. We do not guarantee employment and we do not do job placement because 42 is about training for the real world, and in the real world, you need to learn the art of the job application process. It's an intensive learning process with 12-15 hour days, but you don't need to have any priori coding experience to do well. You have to survive Intensive Basic Training which is a 28-day intensive coding challenge that takes place on campus.
Your software has to work and if it doesn't, you have to go back and fix it, because that's what you do in the real world.Īdmissions is based on merit: we don't ask for GPAs, test scores, degrees, essays, or references. Our curriculum is skills or mastery-based, meaning you don't advance to the next level until you've displayed mastery of the skills for the level that you're on. Our system is gamified through experience points, levels, and correction points. The program is intense but students form a tight-knit community with other Starfleeters. The program is designed to develop strong, well-founded software engineers, particularly those who want to work at top-level tech companies. Starfleeters have a set curriculum they must follow and complete in 12 months. With 42 Starfleet Academy, students control when they learn and how they learn. They have to give and receive correction, defend their code, and adhere to Norms.
Students learn soft skills, creativity, problem-solving, collaboration, communication, and how to work in teams.
Instead, we use project-based and problem-based learning along with peer-correction (like code review) to foster a tight-knit learning environment. 42 has no teachers, courses, or classes, because the workplace doesn't have them. You need 21st-century skills and to be prepared for the workplace today, so we've brought the workplace inside a school. 42 Starfleet Academy Cost:Ĥ2 Starfleet Academy is all 21 levels of the 42 program squeezed into 12 months where students work 50-70 hours a week - it's intensive, but it's good.Ĥ2 trains you for the digital world. This is just the beginning :)Ĥ2 Silicon Valley runs 4-8 Basic Training sessions per year. It is not a bootcamp and do not expect to get a job at the end. The goal of Intensive Basic Training is to prepare you for 42, provide an opportunity to students to see if you like to code and thus a career as a software engineer, and to serve as the admissions process for the school. Other say they learned more in 1 week of Basic Training than they did in 4 years of college. Many students say Basic Training was a great life experience. Instead, you use the people around you and the resources available on the internet to figure out, test, and improve solutions. Our program is designed to reflect the real-world life of a software engineer: you have projects, you work individually and in teams, and your superiors don't necessarily know the answer to your question. There are no teachers, courses, or classes. They are released at 8:42am daily and are due at 11:42pm. This 28-day intensive session is designed to push students, create a learning community, and develop basic coding skills.Įvery day, 7 days a week, students must complete coding challenges and exercises. It's the admissions process for 42 Silicon Valley. Intensive Basic Training is an immersive coding experience.