You don't start from zero. Eleven years on a ward, a decade of lesson plans, a career of reconciled accounts: that is tested code. We help you restructure it around a new language.
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Every adult who joins brings years of tested habits. The course keeps them and points them somewhere new. Six of last year's graduates, before and after:
Was: Ward nurse, eleven years
Now: QA engineer, patient records software
Kept checking twice before anything reaches a patient.
Was: Secondary maths teacher
Now: Developer advocate at an API company
Kept explaining one idea five different ways.
Was: Pastry chef
Now: Front-end developer, booking systems
Kept precision with a timer running.
Was: Payroll accountant
Now: Data engineer for a housing association
Kept never trusting a total nobody reconciled.
Was: Lorry driver, eighteen years
Now: Back-end developer, route planning
Kept knowing the road from the cab.
Was: Session drummer
Now: Software tester for audio plug-ins
Kept keeping time for everyone else.
Each module ends with something that works and that someone outside the school uses. There are no exams; you ship.
HTML, CSS and JavaScript from the first line, with a mentor beside you on the very first night.
You buildA page for a real local shop, live by week five.
React, accessibility and design systems, tested with real people rather than with a checklist.
You buildA booking flow that works with a screen reader.
Node, SQL, APIs and sign-in: the half of the work nobody sees until it breaks.
You buildThe back end your booking flow has been waiting for.
Git, code review, testing and two-week sprints with a product owner who changes her mind.
You buildA feature inside a codebase you didn't write.
Four of you, one real client from Sheffield, five weeks, and a demo night in front of employers.
You buildSoftware an organisation keeps using after you've gone.
Week oneDemo night
Three fixed sessions a week, the same for all twenty-four weeks, so the rest of your life can plan around them. Then about six hours on your own, whenever the house is quiet.
18:30–21:00 · Live class
A mentor teaches the week's idea to twelve of you, in the room or on a call. Recorded, in case the bus is late.
18:30–21:00 · Pairing night
You and one classmate, one problem, one keyboard, swapping every twenty minutes. The quickest way we know to stop being stuck.
10:00–15:00 · Studio day
Build the week's project with mentors walking the room. Lunch is on us, and children are welcome in the quiet room.
Every mentor changed careers after thirty. Each teaches the module closest to the work they do now, and each remembers their own first week.
Ruth wrote her first function on a night-shift break. She teaches accessibility as if every user were a patient at four in the morning, which, she says, some of them are.
Teaches InterfacesMartin still diagnoses servers like engines: listen first, replace parts last. He runs the Thursday pairing nights and brings the biscuits.
Teaches Data & serversDev left the classroom at forty-one and came back to one at forty-four. His first-night lesson has kept more people on the course than any brochure.
Teaches FoundationsCarol learned version control the hard way, by losing a week of work. She makes sure nobody in her module ever does.
Teaches Working in a teamIn the last five weeks, four graduates take on one real client from Sheffield. Three from last year, all still in daily use:
Abbeydale Food Bank · capstone 2025
Volunteers swap shifts from their phones, and the coordinator hears about a gap only when nobody has taken it. She got her Sunday evenings back.
Used by 140 volunteers
Heeley Male Voice Choir · capstone 2025
Seats picked on a plan of the chapel, payments that reconcile themselves and a door list the treasurer can print. Forty-two singers, no complaints so far.
Sold out three concerts
Ridgeway Road Allotments · capstone 2025
Two hundred households on a list that used to live in one man's notebook. Everyone can now see where they stand, and the notebook has retired too.
Checked weekly by 200 households
I was fifty-two, and people half my age had told me I was too old for this. My mentor was fifty-three. That settled it.
The Saturday studio was the only place I was allowed to be stuck. Everywhere else I had to know the answer.
Aisha BegumWas a pharmacy dispenser · now a QA engineer
I did the homework in the van between drops. Thursday pairing is where it finally made sense.
Lee BarkerWas a courier · now a back-end developer
My kids learned the word deploy before I did. They were very proud on demo night.
Grace MensahWas a school administrator · now a developer at Halyard
I came for a new job. I stayed for the people I still argue with about variable names.
Tom EcclesWas a sound engineer · now a full-stack developer
Taster evenings are free, last two hours and are taught by the mentors you would learn from. Bring nothing; we lend laptops.
The whole course is £7,200, with a loan laptop, every Saturday lunch and a year of careers support after demo night. The next cohort starts on Tuesday 12 January 2027.
£6,480once
Save £720 by paying before the first class. Refunded in full if you leave in the first two weeks.
Apply£300a month for 24 months
Interest-free, starting the month the course does. You can pause payments once if life gets in the way.
Apply£0for eligible adults
Through regional skills funding or paid by your employer. We check your eligibility with you on a twenty-minute call.
Check eligibilitySomething else? Call 0114 000 0000 on a weekday evening and a mentor will answer.
Our oldest graduate was sixty-three when she started, and the average age in the room is thirty-eight. Employers who hire our juniors ask about the work, not the birthday.
No. You need to be able to stay with a problem for twenty minutes before asking for help, and then to ask. That is most of the job.
Most people do. Plan on about fourteen hours a week: the three sessions and roughly six hours on your own.
Anything made in the last six years with 8 GB of memory. If you don't have one, we lend you a laptop for the whole course.
Every module has a catch-up Saturday. If life properly happens, you can pause and rejoin the next cohort at the same module, once, at no cost.
For a year after demo night: CV and portfolio reviews, mock interviews with mentors and introductions to the employers who hired our last cohorts.
Tell us which evening suits you, or what you're unsure about. A mentor calls back within two working days.