E-book included! - Kickstart Career is a 94
page guide-book to the tech job hunt, crammed with expert
tips from "ex-FAANG" / "ex-MAMAA" industry veterans
Tried-and-true curriculum
For 6 years, our in-person and hybrid school has
guided 100s of students to build apps, unlock their creative potentials, or
find fulfilling professions in Silicon Valley, and beyond.
In 2024, we're proud to announce the
Kickstart Coding Video Program, in it's most flexible (and
affordable!) format yet.
★★★★★ Five-star rated school*
* We are proud to maintain 5/5 for our commitment to
excellence in affordable coding education. Review sites:
Course Report,
Switch Up,
and Yelp.
» The flexible route to job-ready
“A flexible bootcamp program for serious
learners to become
job-ready for a new career in tech, [...] so that
even if ‘life happens’, you won't get left
behind!”
Want to learn more about how we developed the Kickstart Coding Custom Paced program? Watch our launch event!
COURSES
Popular courses (Showing 3 out of 15 total Course Segments)
Foundations
Web Design: Intro to HTML and CSS
Open Curriculum. Learn foundational skills while creating
cool, useful websites from scratch. Learn how to embed music, videos,
maps, e-commerce stores, and more!
□ □ □ Warm-Up
6
Module Count: 6
Backend
Practical Django
Learn the best practices from an experienced Django
developer: MVC, CRUD, forms, urls, users, admin, models, data
cardinality (eg Many-To-Many), unit testing, and much more.
▣ ▣ □ Intermediate
6 PROJECT
Project based learning: Multi-user shareable DB-driven dashboard Module Count: 6
Frontend
Thinking in React
In this hooks-based React course segment, you go beyond just
learning the JSX syntax, and practice "thinking in React" with
data-flow, lifting state, and more.
▣ ▣ ▣ Advanced
6 PROJECT
Project based learning: Data Viz SPA in React JS Module Count: 6
RESULTS
Our students have gone on to land coveted tech jobs, including roles
at Facebook, Google, and Lyft, and the other prominent tech companies
listed below. As part of our Career course, we teach you the
technical and professional skills that are vital for you to work hard
and thrive.
LEARN
Free Coding Lessons + Hack & Learn Meet Up
Kickstart Coding created FreeCodingLessons.com as
a free resource for both our students and the wider code
learning community.
Learn to build a website in only 3 FREE self-guided lessons
Join an Online or Oakland-based study group to get help
It's perpetually a work in progress, so be
sure to keep on checking back as we add more and more
coursework, resources, and useful material!
Unfortunately, we currently do
not have any scholarships available. We're looking for
partners to allow us to provide more scholarship options for
students who can't afford our program.
In the mean time, we've developed Free Coding Lessons
as a way for anyone online to get started immediately with learning
to code, no credit card or sign-up required! Also, we started the
Hack & Learn Meet Up and it's online equivalent as
ways for you to keep the school camaraderie alive as you work
through our selection of free assignments and self-guided
courses.