Announcing Encode Academy
By: Danny Bohnemann
Tags: Solidity, Extropy, Ethereum, Coding Academy, Blockchain

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Encode Academy. This programme will be an 8-week long coding academy to learn Solidity from scratch and will be open to 30 candidates.

At the conclusion of the programme we will help successful participants secure a job through a career fair.

Apply for consideration by Sunday 8th August 2021 here.

The motivation

The average developer earns well over $100k in crypto (and at times much more). Developers are the most sought after commodity in crypto, and yet there is a lack of them. Through this programme, we aim to bring many new developers into the space and place them in jobs.

About Encode Club

The purpose of Encode is to educate, support and catalyse the emergence of new talent into the blockchain space. We work across 130 universities worldwide, running hackathons, accelerators, education series as well as investing and recruiting the best to join leading blockchain companies. Read more here.

About Encode Academy

The Encode Academy will be an 8-week long coding academy to teach participants Solidity from scratch.

How it works

This programme will be completely free to the 30 members chosen.

Every weekday there will be a 2-hour long class

Each week there will be homework assignments and projects.

Each participant will get access to mentors and teachers to assist them along their way.

Everything will happen remotely via Zoom and Discord.

At the conclusion of the Academy, successful participants will be introduced to companies as part of the Encode Talent programme.

The Teaching

The programme is taught by Extropy.io, a leading software consultancy and education company based out of Oxford.

They will be providing all tutors, learning support and course content.

Learn more about Extropy here.

Eligibility and Selection Process

The Academy will be open to anyone, but priority will be given to individuals who can code in other languages already.

This programme is designed to be part-time and you must be able to commit to attending each of the class sessions which will be held at 5pm — 7pm BST each weekday evening.

After registering, the top applicants will be chosen for an interview and thereafter 30 will be selected for the programme.

A small deposit will be required to participate, but will be repaid upon sufficient attendance and successful completion of the Academy.

Schedule

w/c Monday 16th August: Programme begins, Intro to Blockchain Week

w/c Monday 23rd August: Solidity Introduction

w/c Monday 30th August: Smart Contract Week

w/c Monday 6th September: dApp design

w/c Monday 13th September: Security

w/c Monday 20th September: Advanced coding

w/c Monday 27th September: dApp development

w/c Monday 4th October: Project Week

w/c Monday 11th October: Career Fair

Getting a Job

Successful participants will be introduced to companies to join as part of the Encode Talent programme. We work with a lot of the leading companies and startups in the space.

Website

Read more about the programme here.

Sign up for the programme

Here!

Questions

If you have any questions, please email: questions@encode.club

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