Today was the first day of the Java and .NET cohorts at the Software Craftsmanship Guild.  I’m very excited to get this cohort underway – we really have an outstanding group of apprentices.

A couple of changes in the Java cohort this time around: 1) We’re using Linux (Ubuntu) instead of Windows and 2) We’re including a group mastery/capstone project.  Looking forward to a great session!

I can’t believe that it has been 12 weeks – the first Java cohort at the Software Craftsmanship Guild is coming to a close.  All in all it has been a very successful class with all of the job seeking students that came in directly through the Guild having job offers before the class ended!  We wrap up on 12/20 and then start the next cohort on January 6th.  I’m looking forward to a little down time over the holidays and to the start of the next class!

I am now into the seventh week of teaching my first Java Cohort at the Software Craftsmanship Guild.   The class is going well – we’re covering Spring MVC this week and will move on to databases next week.  These cohorts (we also offer a C#/.NET Cohort) take apprentices with no programming experience and train them to be junior software engineers in 12 weeks – there is a lot of material and a lot of hard work.  This cohort ends on December 20th – I’ll post updates as we closer to the end.