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.
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Recent Posts

Day Cohort 10 / Night Cohort 1 Demo Day
Jan 4, 2016
You're invited to meet Nashville's newest software developers. Need to hire a developer? Whether you need a front-end engineer, server-side developer or full-stack engineer, come meet 35+ great candidates. Read More
Year In Review
Dec 21, 2015
Nashville Software School’s mission is to expand the technology workforce in middle Tennessee by providing motivated individuals with access to a career in software development through training, mentorship and apprenticeship. As the only registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit coding camp in the Southeast, Nashville Software School has delivered on its promise to create a pipeline of software engineering talent into a tech community that greatly needs it. Read More

Topics: News

NSS Co-Sponsors Youth Hackathon
Dec 3, 2015
Help us show some 4th, 5th and 6th graders what code is all about! Nashville Software School is a co-sponsor of a free Youth Hack-a-thon with RePublic Schools. Read More
NSS In The News
Jan 19, 2015
We love what we do — helping people build their skills for a career in technology. And we’re glad to do it in a city with a rapidly-growing technology market that, according to The Tennessean, is the 12th-best for STEM workers. Read the articles from The Tennessean and Washington Post that mention NSS. Read More

Topics: News

Cohort 6 Demo Day
Jan 15, 2015
On Tuesday, graduates from our 6th cohort demonstrated their capstone projects to potential employers. Bryan Finlayson, a student from our newest cohort, shared what he learned as he visited with each student, as well as what employers are looking for from graduates. Read More

Topics: Student Stories, Hiring?

Only 3 Seats Left In Our iOS Class!
Jan 15, 2015
Learn Swift and Objective-C while working alone, in pairs, and on teams to build real apps starting from day one, and leave with a completed capstone project. From mobile design to submitting to the App Store, you’ll learn everything you need to know to build and launch iOS applications. Read More
Cohort 6 Demo Day Scheduled for Tuesday, January 13
Jan 7, 2015
Nashville Software School will introduce its most recent graduates to the Nashville technology community on Tuesday, January 13. Students will present their capstone projects in a “science fair” format that allows attendees to meet with new developers. Read More
Introducing iOS Development Course
Dec 10, 2014
Beginning in January, we will offer an iOS Development class as the first installment in the new Professional Development Series aimed at those who are already working as software developers. iOS development is a great first class to kick off our series – almost all developers need to learn to build and deploy mobile apps and with Jamin Guy and Van Simmons we have the opportunity to work with two of the most knowledgeable and experienced developers on the Apple platform anywhere, not just in Nashville. Read More

Topics: News

Evening Bootcamp Starts in January
Dec 8, 2014
We are excited to announce the launch of the first session of our Evening Developer Bootcamp. Some of you have been waiting for this for a long time. There has always been demand from the community here to provide a way for people that can’t quit their day jobs to have access to the training required to switch careers and become a web developer. Now there is a part-time, evening pathway to that career change. Read More

Topics: News

NSS Featured on Course Report
Feb 6, 2014
The folks at Course Report have posted an interview with us about Nashville Software School. Course Report is a new site that is compiling information about coding bootcamps and related learning resources for code-learning movement. They were interested in what we were doing to attract under-represented groups to coding and why we had started as a non-profit. Read More

Topics: News