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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

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 twenty-two great candidates. Read More

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One year ago I began one of the hardest, but most enjoyable 6 months of my life. I began the NSS Software Development Bootcamp and put myself on the path to a new career as a coder. I went from a forty-something guy with an increasingly outdated set of professional tools to having the skills I needed to enter the cutting-edge field of software development. Read More