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"On a damp October evening in 2013, a handful of developers in Vancouver's
Gastown gathered around folding tables. It was a wonderful, ideal concept they
discussed as their MacBook screens glowed.
What if you didn't need four years
and six figures of debt to become a programmer? Launch Academy, now known as
Lighthouse Labs, was founded.
The idea was already in the process of picking up momentum elsewhere, with the
first coding bootcamps beginning in 2011. The idea was to take the disruption
of Silicon Valley to the education that would teach their future developers: 12
weeks of sprinting and distilled focus, alchemizing baristas and accountants
and oil workers facing layoffs all into employable web and software developers
That idea was good enough to hold for over a decade. Lighthouse Labs became
Canada's flagship coding bootcamp, training an impressive 40,000 students
across six cities in Canada. Cohorts graduated every few months, with students
walking out as "junior developers," GitHub portfolios brimming with green tiles
indicating hard work done with React components and Flask APIs.
And the stats coming out of these bootcamps were impressive, weren't they? 80%
placement rates with six-figure starting salaries. Pipelines straight into
Google and Shopify and hundreds of venture-backed startups raising millions.
Let me ask you reader, where do you think this story goes from here?"
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
