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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We have introduced a new tuition option at Nashville Software School. For the first time, students have the option to fully pay in advance for our Web Developer Bootcamp. We have noticed significant demand from outside the Nashville area to attend our bootcamp; however, our original tuition option was tailored for local residents only.
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It has been some time since we updated you on our plans. We still plan to launch evening courses in the first half of 2014. However, we will not be able to launch those classes in January. At present, it looks like it will be April before we can launch our first evening courses.
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We have opened applications for two new Web Developer Bootcamps, one starting January 2014 and one starting April 2014. We plan to continue to start Bootcamps every 3 months, which means that we will have 2 active six-month programs running at any given point in time and that we will be graduating new developers every 3 months.
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We have closed applications for our third student cohort.
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An update on our upcoming evening program.
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Nashville Software School announces a change in the start date for its next Web Developer Bootcamp training program. Our third student cohort will start classes on Monday, September 9, 2013. This is the class that was originally planned to start on July 8, 2013. In other words, we are delaying the start of our next Bootcamp by 2 months.
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