Can a kid from high school armed with just curiosity sign up On Jan 16, 2014 4:02 PM, "Allan O." <allayy@gmail.com> wrote:
It is with great pleasure that I write to inform you that the Nairobi Dev School is now accepting applications for its second cohort of trainees. The training will start on 4th February and run full time for 12 weeks.
What We do Curriculum
The Nairobi Dev School will be using the Jumpstart lab curriculum used by the school. Through our unique partnership with jumpstart lab, we will be able to use the well formulated curriculum. The curriculum is being worked on and adjusted accordingly until it is perfect for the students accepted. The curriculum involves teaching programming using the Ruby programming language, then moving into building web applications using Ruby on Rails. The program is project-based, allowing the students to use their programming skills as they learn. Mentorship
Nairobi Dev School students will get a mentor to walk with them as they start out their journey to programming rockstar-dom! Apprenticeship
The Nairobi Dev School has partnered with several local startups that are happy to take up graduating students as programming apprentices. Community
At NDS, we are passionate about creating a community of hungry learners and skilled programmers. We are involeved in the local Mozilla community hold these monthly meetups - Treehouse meetup, Ruby meetup, Codecademy meet-up.
As a student it means putting in the hours to learn from the best, grokking the terminal, squeezing up all creative juices you have. Every day, you wake up to face a new challenge with new tools that we will equip you with. By studying top notch web skills, you position yourself to become rockstar web startup founders, awesome software development apprentices and rockstar beginners
If interested, please submit your application through the application form at http://nairobidevschool.org/attendee_applications/new.<http://www.nairobidevschool.org./> More information is available on the site (www.nairobidevschool.org). If you have questions or want to share with us, drop us a line at nairobidevschool@gmail.com
The Nairobi Dev School's goal is to empower local Kenyans to learn to program and build their dreams. Come, join us!
Regards,
Allan Onchuru
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