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Pedagogy Overview Mastery-based Learning Salaries Free Classes Smooth Start Workshops Prep Courses Community For Students Deferred Payment Is This For Me? Common Questions Core Curriculum Capstone Love Sign In Sign Up LaunchSchool: An online school for Software Engineers Pedagogy Overview Mastery-based Learning Salaries Free Classes Smooth Start Workshops Prep Courses Community For Students Deferred Payment Is This For Me? Common Questions Launch School Love Core Curriculum Capstone Sign In Sign Up The Slow Path for Studious Learners to a Career in Software Development Structured Curriculum from First Principles Our program is about slowly building up mastery of fundamentals , so you understand how higher level abstractions truly work from the bottom up. Our goal isn’t to teach you how to use React or Rails, but to show you how to construct accurate mental representations of first principles in order to tackle fundamental engineering problems. Our goal isn’t to help you find a job, but help you launch a career. Our goal isn’t to teach you to code, but to teach you how to deconstruct and problem solve like an engineer. By Software Engineers for Future Software Engineers Launch School was founded by experienced software engineers. We know what it takes to not only break into software, but to build and grow a career as an engineer in the software industry. Our objective is to increase your lifetime earnings by millions of dollars. This is what makes Launch School unique and why we focus on the long-term results of a career. Our curriculum was created by software engineers for future software engineers — you. Launch School gave me a framework for learning and understanding software that I’ve been able to leverage every day in my job as a software enginner. The curriculum and pedagogy are rigorous for a reason; it instills a lifelong foundation from which to build knowledge and grow as an engineer throughout your career. Launch School fundamentally changed the way I learn new skills and how I approach problems. Jack Aitken Launch School has imbued practical knowledge, habits for learning, and approaches to problem solving that I didn’t have before. Having all of these opportunities has also cost the fraction of any CS degree or bootcamp, and the level of know how and the approach to solving problems is incomparable to bootcamps that cost 7-10x as much. Austin Miller I work at a little consultancy, which among other things, does a lot of work with school and education systems here in Australia. I’ve learned a lot from the programs pedagogical approach and curriculum design. We often use Launch School as example in discussions around getting the fundamentals right. David Perich The back-end curriculum has been a long journey already. It’s honestly really confidence-building to reflect on where I was when I started (and restarted) Prep to where I am now capable of building web applications that address challenges I may encounter in daily life. Christopher Douglas I will forever love this curriculum and recommend it to anyone wanting to become a developer. Andrew Crotwell I’ve built a lot of confidence in my ability to pick up new programming concepts or frameworks as I encounter them. Launch School’s requirements for a solid knowledge of the fundamentals via the assessments leaves me with the feeling that if I can succeed at Launch School, I will be able to pick up other frameworks/concepts as needed without much trouble. Elizabeth Tackett "We’re one of the oldest and largest coding schools in the world." Our Learning Goals The key to unlocking higher level understanding and skills that last a career is focusing on fundamentals. We designed our curriculum with the following learning goals. Fundamentals first , fundamentals throughout A focus on learning things that don’t change Learn slowly and deliberately Learn to be proficient , not just build awareness Learn to understand problems , not solutions Learn in a circular fashion Our students love us, and if you are committed to building a career in software development, you will too Sienna Wood Denver Software Engineer Experts always return to fundamentals because they are the foundation on which everything else is built. Launch School’s core program embodies this principle by emphasizing mastery of fundamentals through purposeful individual study. READ MORE Steve Kolock New York Front-end Developer I got a different role making significantly more than twice what I had been making as a ’web specialist’, putting me firmly in six-figure READ MORE Letladi Sebesho Johannesburg, South Africa Full Stack Developer at Co-Foundy This programme opened possibilities for me that would have taken me years to reach READ MORE Sunny Beatteay New York City Software Engineer From the first glance, it was apparent that Launch School had been founded by industry veterans. I have never encountered a curriculum more in-depth and rigorous READ MORE A Serious Training Curriculum That’s Designed to Launch a Career Core Curriculum Mastery of Fundamentals Capstone Launch Your Career Complete the Core Curriculum courses and pass their assessments, and you’ll have mastered the fundamentals. Participate in our Capstone Program, and you’ll launch a career. The Proof is in the Results The average starting salary for 2022 Capstone graduates is $119,433 (See Results & Outcomes for more details.) Our graduates have been hired by industry leading companies and some of the most competitive startups Start our preparatory courses now for free. When you’re ready for the real courses, it’s just $ 199 /month Standard Program $ 299 /month Deferred Payment Program More information Continue reading about how our pedagogy works and why we’re able to produce such amazing results. This is how we’re different. You should really read this. Our Pedagogy Medium Publication Open Bookshelf Podcast Shop hello@launchschool.com © Copyright 2024 Launch School - All Rights...