How do you teach world-class software developers

you come out of the three or four month course with a tremendous amount of confidence and just your ability to exist in uncertainty within a lot of unknowns and that is huge .

We focus really heavily on helping developers put in place repeatable processes that they can use to solve any challenge that they're faced with .

So they know from very early on that they can use these skills to solve problems that they haven't even seen yet and might not even encounter .

While they're at makers , they will lead their own learning rather than requiring the support from every team member around them .

The course is built around employer feedback , and that means that everything you do every week is important for you to get that first job .

Developers from makers are self sufficient and they're able to work alone , but they're also able to work in a team .

We really value soft skills here , and we do a lot in teams , so developers practise kind of collaboration and estimating together , working together , getting that feel of how it feels to be in a professional dev team .

We simulate the workplace here , um , so they have a lot of projects .

They have to work in pairs .

We actually expect them to learn many , many things that we don't honestly ever talk to them about .

Um uh , we give them context , we give them challenges , and then they will teach themselves .