John Wark
John started programming professionally at age 19. After a long and multifarious career in technology, he founded NSS in 2012. He believed that Nashville's technology talent shortage would never be solved by trying to import experienced developers from other cities or by waiting for colleges and universities to start graduating enough students and/or appropriately trained students. He also had faith that Nashville had an ample supply of motivated adults with latent aptitude who, if offered a chance, would eagerly pursue a career in technology.
Nashville Software School's ProTech initiative offers free professional development courses to support junior and intermediate tech job seekers, supported by grants to preserve Middle Tennessee's tech talent pipeline.
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Analytics + Data Science,
Web Development,
Software Engineering
We asked our alumni whether, and possibly how, to integrate teaching of generative AI tools into our bootcamp programs. Just as we found last year, there are very real differences of opinion among our alumni regarding the extent to which we should be teaching the use of generative AI tools - or even whether we should be teaching anything about these tools.
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Alumni,
Technology Insights
We resurveyed our alumni survey after another year of generative AI experience. Curious about how generative AI is impacting the tech industry and our graduates? Spoiler: It's not taking jobs but transforming them!
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Alumni,
Technology Insights
While it’s true that the market is slower compared to the last few years, it’s also clear that companies are still hiring junior software developers. We would like to share some facts about placements of software developer grads from NSS so that you know what we’re really seeing.
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News,
Community,
Technology Insights,
Web Development
Today, we are announcing that the April & October cohorts of the full-time Web Developer Bootcamp will not be offered in 2024. Check the blog for details.
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News,
Web Development
Postponing Software Engineering with Java/AWS Specialization new enrollments until 2025. Read blog for more deatils.
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News,
Software Engineering
We’re excited to announce the addition of two financing options for regular tuition students in the full-time Web Developer program.
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News
As we continue our series of articles on the effects AI will have on tech careers, John Wark, NSS Founder and CEO delves into the myths and realities surrounding AI's influence on software engineering, data analytics, data science, and web development jobs.
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Learning,
Technology Insights
While the media has sensationalized the AI phenomenon, creating some fear and uncertainty, we believe it's crucial to separate fact from fiction. We conducted a comprehensive survey among our NSS alumni to uncover their experiences with AI tools on the job. In this blog post, we dive into our alumni's perspective of whether, and possibly how, to integrate teaching of AI tools into our bootcamp programs.
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Topics:
Learning,
Analytics + Data Science,
Web Development,
Software Engineering
While the media has sensationalized the AI phenomenon, creating some fear and uncertainty, we believe it's crucial to separate fact from fiction. We conducted a comprehensive survey among our NSS alumni to uncover their experiences with AI tools on the job. In this blog series, we dive into the impact of AI tools/tooling on software development from both a learning and job demand perspective.
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Topics:
Learning,
Analytics + Data Science,
Web Development,
Software Engineering