Makers Academy is a highly selective, 12 week full-time programme that teaches web development in London. We accept only the top applicants onto the course for a rigorous programme that culminates with the graduation day when we introduce them to London's top technology companies looking to hire entry-level developers. http://www.makersacademy.com/

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What is
Makers
Academy?
Makers Academy is a highly selective, 12 week full-time
programme that teaches web development in London. We accept
only the top applicants onto the course for a rigorous programme
that culminates with the graduation day when we introduce them
to London's top technology companies looking to hire entry-level
developers.

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Who is this course for?
Complete beginners who have started coding very recently
Founders tired of looking for a tech co-founder for their startup
Project managers who want to better understand developers
Professionals looking for a career change into software development
Computer science students who need practical skills
Designers and IT professionals looking to augment their skills
What you'll learn

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Ruby on Rails
You will build advanced web
applications using Ruby on
Rails, a powerful web
development framework.
HTML5 and CSS3
The fundamentals are
always important — let's
show you how to make
things look slick.
Javascript and
jQuery
Javascript and jQuery will
enable you to build dynamic
web applications.
Git and Heroku
But what if I ruin my code
and can't figure out how to
fix it? Revert back with Git,
Software Design
From Model-View-Controller
to Test Driven
Development, we'll show
Agile and Lean
You will learn modern lean
startup principles and agile
methodologies used in

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and push to Heroku to get
your website live.
you how to properly write
software that works.
software development.
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Course dates
15 September 2014
27 October 2014
8 December 2014
2 February 2015
16 March 2015
27 April 2015
Student experiences

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Keir Osborne
“I went into the course with
no back-end development
experience whatsoever and just
a little bit of front-end
experience. After completing
the course I found a full-stack
Ruby on Rails development job
almost immediately.
”
Keir now works at Survival
International
Michelle Brideau
“At Makers Academy, we
learned to code by spending as
much time as possible actually
coding. We pair-programmed,
worked on group projects and
got a lot of practical experience
about being a developer.
”
Michelle now works at Sky
Tim Boeckmann
“I have wasted so many
hours looking for people with
the right technical skills. Makers
Academy has given me two
solutions to this problem.
Firstly, I can build a sample
product capable of proving a
viable idea. Secondly, finding
these skilled developers is
easier now I understand the
development process.
”
Tim is the founder of
Seederboard
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How will I learn?

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First-hand experience
Forget rote learning and slow progress. You'll be
learning from world class developers and
immediately implementing the concepts into your
own projects. Be prepared to drink from the
firehose.
Pairing
Students spend most of their time pair
programming, meaning two people working
together on the same code base. Pairing is a
fantastic way to learn new concepts and studies
have shown developer output to increase when
developers pair program.
Community-driven classroom
During your hands-on training, we invite engineers
from top tech companies to guide you. You'll be
learning while simultaneously networking with key
members in the technology community.
Project-based work
While the first half of the course focuses on the
fundamentals of Web Development and the Ruby
Language, the second half focuses heavily on
students creatingreal-life projects.You will leave the
course with at least 3 complete pieces of work for
your portfolio, as well as a bulging Github account.
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Alex Peattie
Alex worked as a software developer for Huckberry, UNESCO
and YCombinator startups in the UK, Canada and the States.
He often teaches the second half of the course: Ruby on Rails,
Javascript, HTML5 APIs, etc.
Enrique Comba Riepenhausen
Enrique has almost 20 years of commercial experience,
including running Path11, a boutique consultancy. He is a
fervent advocate of test-driven development and the author of
the book Inceptions.

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Steve Lloyd
Steve worked at uSwitch, Forward, InvisibleHand and
Skimlinks as a software developer using Ruby and Javascript
as his languages of choice. He's extremely passionate about
teaching software development.
Evgeny Shadchnev
Evgeny is a co-founder of Makers Academy. He's got
experience working both as a developer and in CTO-level roles
using mostly Ruby and Javascript. He's passionate about TDD
and clean code.
Hiring partners

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We've gone out and partnered with many of
London's top technology companies.At the end of
the course we'll introduce you to the companies
looking to hire.Our goal is to have a 100%
placement rate among graduates seeking
employment,and we have a very successful track
record of placing students at junior developer roles
earning from £25,000 to £40,000 per year.
Please note: Our aim is to help place every
graduate that wishes to work as a developer, but
we cannot guarantee you a job on graduation,
since your success will be down to your own hard
work. We'll support you every step of the way, but
your success or failure will ultimately be down to
you.
If you are a company looking to hire junior
developers, pleaseget in touch.

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Benefits
Learning cutting edge coding techniques such as agile &
TDD
Macbook Pro Retina & 24'' display for the duration of the
course
Our space is open from 8.30am‑9.00pm Mon‑Fri
Located at the heart of Silicon Roundabout with a big
work space
Access to speakers, events and meetups in the office
Breakfast, coffee and snacks
Tuition from £207 / month
Based on Student Funder payment plan with an upfront payment
of £1200 followed by 30 Monthly installments of £207 starting 3
months after graduation.
Due to high demand, a non-refundable£800 depositwill be required

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to guarantee your seat on the course.
We have other payment plans and a scholarship for women.
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Makers Academy
Floor 4
Epworth House
25 City Rd.
London EC1Y 1AA
United Kingdom
Get in touch
contact@makersacademy.com
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