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Mainly intended for London residents, but we would consider strong applications from elsewhere.

This should now no longer be the case. There are links to both a FAQ to the "Current course" materials on the website.

Link added to navigation bar. Thanks for the suggestion :-)

The first cohort graduated in February. One is interning as a developer at Hogarth Worldwide--after only six weeks and from a standing start--but he was an outlier. Of the others, …

ZenPro, I really appreciate the feedback. Contact me. There's a link on the website.

That is no coincidence. I organised a meetup for Startup Engineering last year in the same place that I am now running Founders & Coders. It's a great course. Good luck with it.

At this point we are not sure, but since the HN posting the odds may be about to lengthen. We will accept text applications if you have a good reason for not doing a video.

Thank you for the feedback. We will be doing more stuff later in the year. I struggle with self learning, too. Peer pressure makes such a difference. Please follow @selforganising …

Good suggestion. Done.

Like you, I have no teaching experience, but have been working as a web developer and project manager for many years before taking this project on. I encourage you to give it a go.…

It is part of a larger project funded by from public sources. It is not a pilot. The June course will be the third one we have run this year. We are exploring funding from various …

Well spotted. This is from the current course. Much though I love them, we are dropping the Udacity courses and switching to JavaScript and node.js for the next one. Trying to teac…

We will certainly consider applicants from overseas. We have a Russian, a Greek and an Argentinian on the current course. Although it is mainly for London residents, we might make …

We have a bit of funding from Collective, which is a project in Camden Town offering free workspace and support to creative startups, which is in turn funded by the Mayor of London…

It is entry level. Primarily, it's going to be JavaScript--both backend (node) and frontend, plus HTML, CSS, and Git.

This is a course I am involved in, but I am hoping a free course of this kind is unusual enough to be of interest to Hacker News readers.