Intro to Software Engineering

Intro to Software Engineering, is a no-cost 12-week virtual course designed for students with an interest in pursing computer science. This course is taught primarily in Python programming language and focuses on beginner topics from conditionals, loops, big O notation, dictionaries, strings, and arrays. Intro to Software Engineering does not require any previous coding experience.

This Summer 2022, we will offer sections during the following dates and times:

Course Dates & Times:

• Monday May 30 - Thursday August 18
  • Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 2-4pm PT / 5-7pm ET
    OR
  • Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdays 5-7pm PT / 8-10pm ET

Students should plan on spending 2-4 hours outside of class time to complete assignments.

First, you will need to fill out a questionnaire, which will have questions about your background and career aspirations. Then you will need to complete the diagnostic HackerRank assessment to gauge where you are when you start the course and map your progress throughout the course. No minimum score is required to be admitted.

Rising college freshmen and sophomores who are enrolled in US colleges and universities who have an interest in pursing computer science or related computing-major. 

You can find the syllabi here:

• Intro to Software Engineering

This no-cost 12-week virtual course is taught by professional engineers and is a foundation-level course geared towards rising freshmen and sophomores. This supplemental course will give you a taste of what it is like to work in software engineering and give you hands-on experience in computer science with a cohort of your peers. You will also gain access to CodePath’s career service.

Admitted students will have access to the mentorship program, resume review week, mock interview week, 1:1 advising with our career coaches. Students will also have access to our resource guides and can attend panels with company partners and company info sessions. 

The course instructors will be professionals from major technology companies, start-ups and academia.

CodePath teaching assistants will be available to help with assignments. You will  be in a Slack channel where you can ask questions, and you can also email your instructors if you have further questions.

Yes, you will receive a certificate of completion upon completion of the course. Many of our students will post and share their certificates on LinkedIn, and we encourage you to do so!

Yes, CodePath is a nonprofit with backing from major tech companies like Cognizant, Comcast, Meta, Walmart, and Workday. Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, we can offer our classes to any eligible student for free.

We believe our students have the richest experience when we have a diverse cohort of students who are focused on their computer science education and motivated to land an internship or job in the tech industry. To that end, we take a wide array of factors into our admissions decisions including, but not limited to:

• Identification with underrepresented groups in tech
• Eligibility criteria (see above section)

We process admissions on a rolling basis and do our best to keep up with the volume of applications. Since there is no minimum required score on the diagnostic test to be accepted, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. You can expect to hear back about your admissions status by May 9, 2022. Due to the large number of applications we receive every admissions cycle, we cannot guarantee that you will hear back before May 9th, but we will work to process as quickly as possible.

Please email admissions@codepath.org with any questions.