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

New Tuition Option - Out-Of-Area Students Now Welcome!
Oct 31, 2013
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. Read More

Topics: News

Evening Program Update (Redux)
Oct 31, 2013
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. Read More
Now Taking Applications - January And April 2014 Bootcamps
Oct 29, 2013
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. Read More
Applications Closed for September Bootcamp 2013
Jun 13, 2013
We have closed applications for our third student cohort. Read More
Evening Program update
Jun 13, 2013
An update on our upcoming evening program. Read More
New Start Date For next Bootcamp
May 13, 2013
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. Read More
Now Taking Applications - July Bootcamp 2013
Apr 2, 2013
We have started taking applications for the next Web Developer Bootcamp. We plan to start the next Bootcamp in early July. If you've been waiting for the announcement of the next Bootcamp before applying this is your wake-up call. Read More
Great Article on NSS in The Tennessean
Nov 13, 2012
The Tennessean ran a very nice story about Nashville Software School in this morning's edition in the business section. Solid overview of what we do at the school. Read More

Topics: News

Now Taking applications - January 2013 Bootcamp
Oct 22, 2012
We will be launching our second Web Development Bootcamp in January 2013. We are now accepting applications for the January class. Read More
Location For Summer 2012
May 28, 2012
We're thrilled to finally be able to announce our location for the Summer 2012 Web Development Bootcamp. Our friends at the Nashville Business Incubation Center (NBIC) have offered to host us for the summer in their large conference/training room. Read More