42 (school)
42 is a private, nonprofit and tuition-free computer science school created and funded by French billionaire Xavier Niel (founder of the telecommunication company Iliad) with several partners including Nicolas Sadirac (previous director-general of the Epitech school in France), Kwame Yamgnane and Florian Bucher (former executives of Epitech). The school was first opened in Paris in 2013. 42 is a future-proof computer science training to educate the next generation of software engineers. Out of more than 80,000 candidates in France, 3,000 were selected to complete a four-week intensive computer programming bootcamp called "piscine" (swimming-pool ). Any person older than 16 can register for the "piscine" after completing the logical reasoning tests on the website. The school does not have any professors, and is open 24/7. The training includes peer-to-peer, pedagogy, and project-based learning. All the intellectual property belongs to the students. 42's name is a reference to the science fiction book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" written by British author Douglas Adams: in the book 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. In addition to the two official campuses in Paris, France , and Fremont, California, the school model was adopted in Lyon, Reims, and Mulhouse, France, as well as in Romania, South Africa, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Moldova, Belgium, Russia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Indonesia, Finland, Germany, Adelaide, Australia, the United Arab Emirates and Quebec, Canada with the help and support of 42. History. Announced on March 26, 2013, 42 opened its doors on July 15, 2013 for the selection phase called "La Piscine" (the swimming-pool). On May 17, 2016, 42 announced they will open a second campus in Fremont, California. The first selection phase (The "Piscine") will start on July 11, 2016. Students  who passed the first Piscines started training in November 2016. On January 27, 2022, 42 Network announced they opened 42 campuses across 25 countries. And +15000 students.