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.