At a glance
| Length | 8 weeks |
|---|---|
| Effort | 20 to 26 hours in total |
| Where | Remote, entirely online |
| Pay | Unpaid |
| Starts | The first Monday after you are accepted |
Apply
Tell us where you are studying, what you have built so far, and your GitHub. We read every one.
Apply→Fellows work on set problems written for them, chosen to train the thing that is hardest to teach: noticing that something is wrong before anybody reports it.
You will be shown how to design and build web applications against a written specification, how to troubleshoot a system you did not write, and how to script against an existing codebase rather than starting from an empty file. By the end you have your own portfolio website on your own domain name, a working understanding of the third-party tools a real site depends on, and a template design of yours in our catalog.
What you need
- Enrolled at a two or four year accredited college. Computer science preferred, not required.
- Internet access.
- A GitHub account. Free, here.
What you will do
- Weekly assignments. The eight weeks begin on the first Monday after your application is approved. The first assignment arrives by email.
- Quality assurance. You are given example pages and asked to find what is wrong with them.
- Support. Production fixes and maintenance on the site's own HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Real pages, not exercises.
- Reporting. Write up what you found, what worries you, and what you think should happen. Being able to say so clearly is half the job.
- Contribute. Work alongside people with different skills to ship something a customer uses.
What you get
- HTML5, CSS and JavaScript, with jQuery, Bootstrap and Cloudinary, inside a PHP API framework.
- Source control with GitHub, and task management with Asana.
- Search engine optimization, applied to pages that are actually ranked.
- Testing and debugging across browsers and devices.
- A three-year domain name with a live portfolio, coded by you for you, linked from our team page.
After the eight weeks
The fellowship teaches front-end work while keeping you honest about what is happening behind it. If you want to carry on afterwards, there is a paid part-time, per-project position you can apply for.