Hi there, My name is Erin Rosenblatt and I’m from the team at Emeritus, the organization that runs this program in collaboration with MIT xPRO. I wanted to hop in here to add some more detail about the course, how it’s structured and why, and the types of support we provide. We are always eager to hear from our learners as that helps us to continuously improve. If you haven’t already, u/Square_Rabbit65 , I invite you to share this feedback and anything else about your experience with our Program Support team. This 32-week program is designed for beginners to go from little-to-no coding experience to being prepared for an entry-level full stack coding job. Learners are meant to devote 15-20 hours a week to completing assignments and it’s a flexible course so we don’t have any fixed times of the day or week in which this work must be done. Here’s a quick overview of the course content: Part 1 - Web Development with JavaScript: The first three weeks of the course are foundational weeks, designed for absolute beginners to set up their systems and to learn about foundational computer and programming concepts as they begin to learn JavaScript. Weeks, 4-7 revisit these foundational concepts in greater depth and give learners the opportunity for additional practice. In Weeks 8-10, learners focus on styling, asynchronous programming and recursion. They build sites with more complex animations, such as a map displaying live bus location data or an animation that follows a user’s mouse movements. Part 2 - Front-End Development: In Weeks 11 – 20, learners develop skills in React starting with simple projects in React standalone, working with hooks, state, and parent/child components. By Week 13, they create their first app with the create-react-app toolchain and by the end of Week 20 they’ve created a front-end application and deployed it to the cloud. Part 3 - Back-End Development: In Weeks 20-30, learners incorporate the server and data store to build a complete application. They use common libraries and tools to improve their projects and testing. They will also work with testing and DevOps. Learners wrap up the course with a portfolio of their projects to demonstrate their skills to employers. And here’s some information about how we expect learners to spend the 15-20 hours per week of course time: Faculty videos: The videos from MIT faculty are designed for learners to code along. While there is between 45-120 minutes of video content per week (later weeks get longer), we expect learners to follow along, pause, re-watch the videos as they code. If a learner is actively coding along with the videos, we anticipate they would take between 3-5 hours to watch and experiment with code. Coding activities and assignments: Between graded exercises and coding challenges posed in the videos, we expect learners to spend between 7-10 hours completing coding exercises each week. Additional activities: We expect learners to spend up to 3 hours per week completing knowledge checks and contributing to discussions with their classmates. These activities are designed for learners to quickly test their understanding and to extend their knowledge and use what they’ve learned creatively. Additional resources: We provide a summary guide for each week along with curated supplementary resources. We encourage learners to explore these resources to both learn more about the topics covered and to get plugged into industry-standard resources and communities. As with most things, the more you put in, the more you get out. Projects & Capstone: Each of the 3 sections of the course has a final project to bring together the concepts and provide an opportunity for real-world application. These projects are graded by our Course Leaders and learners receive feedback on their work and how to improve. Part 1: Learners will develop a personal website to highlight the 3 coding projects they will completed in the course. We expect learners to work on this project over 5 weeks and to make continuous improvements over the duration of the course. Part 2: Learners build out the front end of a banking application with React. They’ll focus on synchronizing parent/child components to ensure the data captured locally is updated based on user input. We expect learners to work on this project for 4 weeks. Part 3: For their final capstone project, learners have 2 choices. They may build out the back end of the front-end banking application they developed in Part 2 or they can work on a new project to build out a full stack restaurant ordering application from scratch. We expect learners to work on this for 5-6 weeks. Finally, I’ll include some of the support that we provide in the program: Learning Facilitators: Along with discussion boards where learners can post questions to receive responses from their learning facilitators and peers, this course offers multiple office hours each week. The office hours are live sessions with learning facilitators where learners can ask questions directly. Learners also have access to a support ticket system that allows them to send questions directly to the learning facilitators. Industry Mentors: Learners work with mentors who have years of industry experience and have built teams of developers at their companies. Mentors meet with learners in groups and 1:1 to explore possible career paths in the web development industry, and the steps to get there They also provide guidance and feedback on capstone projects at the end of this course. Career Coaches: Career coaches work with learners throughout the program in group and 1:1 sessions to cover topics such as: resumes, how to begin a job search, LinkedIn networking, interviewing, and salary negotiation. As has been mentioned elsewhere in this thread, this is a new course, just launched in December of 2020. So far, our learner feedback has been positive overall, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t areas that we could improve the curriculum and experience. We’ve rolled out a few improvements already and have more in the works. For anyone who has any questions about this program, you can DM me or email mit@emeritus.org .