Our Curriculum

Learn to code. Become a software developer and fulfil your potential. Rewire your approach to learning, build confidence and unlock new skills with our self-led curriculum.
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Learn best working practices to become a world-class software engineer.

To prepare you for working in a real tech team, our curriculum is centred around learning to code by doing. We focus on Agile best practices like TDD and pair programming to set you up for the modern world of software engineering in the workplace.

Meet our team of world-class coaches.

The quality of your education is often defined by those who deliver it and we’re proud to have a team of industry experts.

 

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Master any language or framework with our skills-led curriculum.

Learn coding and choose any pathway, from mastering the Ruby and Javascript basics, to Python, app development, AI and more. Watch these final projects for a flavour of what’s possible to create on the course. See where 16 weeks of coding could take you.

Demo Day Tickets

FloatingPoint VR Tech Demo
ChoreMatick CMS for Alexa
Deblocracy aka Jenny from the blockchain
Machine learning tackles low quality journalism
Rebuilding Pacman!
AR App: Augmented Art

FloatingPoint VR Tech Demo

 Alexa Skills Demo

ChoreMatick CMS for Alexa

Deblocracy aka Jenny from the blockchain

 team vector space

Machine learning tackles low quality journalism

 Pacman Game Demo

Rebuilding Pacman!

 AR App

AR App: Augmented Art

Curriculum

Weekly schedule

  • Weeks 1-8: Software Fundamentals: TDD and Object Oriented Programming
  • Weeks 9 – 16: Specialism in Software Development, Data, Cloud or Quality.


    • Software Development

    • How to learn new languages
    • Working with mobile apps
    • Working with web apps

    Cloud Engineering

    • Continuous Integration and Deployment
    • Working with cloud apps
    • Problem-solving in a live environment

    Quality Engineering

    • Manual and automatic software testing
    • Quality throughout the software lifecycle
    • Live exercises with devs on other tracks

    Data Engineering

    • SQL and data processing
    • Data analysis and presenting insights
    • Data warehouse modelling



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Practical Learning

Practical learning from day one

Students learn in peer-to-peer environments facilitated by experienced coaches

  • Students pair program online for the majority of the day
  • Daily workshops & code reviews led by coaches
  • Constant communication using online chat tools




Course Dates

Full-Time Start Job Hunting Start
30 October 2023 11 March 2024
15 January 2024 6 May 2024

Courses

There are two main pathways to becoming a developer at Makers.

Makers Academy

Earn £30k after 16 weeks. Looking for the fast and flexible route into software engineering? We run a new course every 4 weeks for those looking to learn to code and change their life now. With the freedom to build your final project in a new technology of your choice, you’ll leave the course with a packed portfolio and plenty of points on Stack Overflow. Together with job support from our career coaches and connections to leading tech companies provided by our Partnerships team, we’ll help you find a job you love.

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Makers Apprenticeships

Earn £25k from day one. Our apprenticeships are the equivalent of foundation software engineering degrees. We don’t just teach you how to code. We teach you to think like problem-solvers, and give you the coding tools to construct solutions to almost any problem. You don’t need a maths degree, we don’t care about A-levels, you don’t need to have built your first computer before you could walk.

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If you’d like to talk to a human on the phone, feel free to call us on: +44 (0)203 817 8870. You can also attend one of our events.
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