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.
Well, it’s official! NSS graduated our 2,000th student last month with the August graduation of Full-time Data Analytics Cohort 7. It took seven and a half years to reach our 1000th graduate and only another two and a half years to reach our 2000th. I’ll let those numbers sink in for a moment…
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10 Years | 2000 Journeys
This summer, we launched our brand new Software Engineering with Java/AWS Specialization program in collaboration with Amazon. It is a nine-month, full-time deep dive into designing, building, testing, and deploying the server-side of large-scale enterprise applications.
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It’s a summer of big milestones at NSS. As we celebrate the 10th anniversary of our founding and our first cohort of students, NSS Founder and CEO John Wark reflects on the milestones we’ve got to look forward to this summer!
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People have been asking for two years when we would start offering classes in person again and our answer has been some variation of “we’re not sure”. Well, we now know a definitive answer to that question so we’re sharing it with everyone here. NSS is now online first for all of our classes.
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This is the first time that we’ve launched a program that takes a different approach. Learn how the process works, and what an applicant can expect at each step!
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Learn how our new Software Engineering program compares to our Web Development Bootcamps and help decide which program is the best fit for your goals! Our latest blog post compares schedule/cost/logistics, skills taught, who each program is intended for, and jobs prepared for.
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Thanks for all your kind words and excitement surrounding Monday’s announcement of our new program! We’ve seen a few things shared that are incorrect & some questions we hadn’t quite anticipated. Here’s a blog post to help clear some of this up!
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NSS is collaborating with Amazon to deliver a new training program - Software Engineering with Java/AWS Specialization - John Wark breaks down the details surrounding our latest major announcement.
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Alumni of Nashville Software School (NSS), who are also veterans, asked for a way to financially support their fellow veterans who lost their funding to attend NSS without notice.
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As of today, seven of our ten veterans impacted by no longer being allowed to use their earned educational entitlements at NSS are still attending on schedule and three are either delaying their attendance or not attending.
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