<p>Tomorrow is the first day of cohort 17 of School of Code - a free 16-week software development bootcamp - and I'm happy to be mentoring a student again for my third time.</p>
<p>I also mentored the winning team at a hack day event in January and <a href="/presentations/communities-contribution">spoke at the TechConnect meetup</a> last year.</p>
<p>Last week, I spoke with George Gordon - a recent School of Code graduate who I met at the hack day and later at another meetup I was speaking at.</p>
<p>We discussed his experience with coding bootcamps, getting into the software industry and involved with community events and how he found his first Developer job!</p>
<p>It will be released soon on <a href="/podcast">the Beyond Blocks podcast page</a>.</p>
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<p>Tomorrow is the first day of cohort 17 of School of Code - a free 16-week software development bootcamp - and I'm happy to be mentoring a student again for my third time.</p>
<p>I also mentored the winning team at a hack day event in January and <a href="/presentations/communities-contribution">spoke at the TechConnect meetup</a> last year.</p>
<p>Last week, I spoke with George Gordon - a recent School of Code graduate who I met at the hack day and later at another meetup I was speaking at.</p>
<p>We discussed his experience with coding bootcamps, getting into the software industry and involved with community events and how he found his first Developer job!</p>