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Thought of the week

Extracurricular and learning opportunities 1

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Learning at FAC

Founders and Coders is a peer-led learning environment.

That means we make every effort to provide you with the tools and resources to shape your learning experience based on your needs and interests.

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In the next slides we’ll cover a few opportunities available to you beyond the curriculum defined as part of the course.

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Extra-Curricular Activities:

  • Coding events like Hackathons and Meet ups are always taking place. Keep an eye out for them:
  • You can join a lot of tech talks and workshops through Space 4 events
  • Saturday Unschool
  • Mentoring from Founders and Coders Alumni

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Recommended Library (English and Maths) :

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  • Additional reading

Clean code

Modern Software Engineering

The DevOps Handbook

A Philosophy of Software Design

  • Additional maths

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Algorithm Books

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Functional Skills English and Maths resources :

  • Access our library of additional resources

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FAC Newsletter 🔦

We write regular newsletters to the entire FAC community.

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The newsletters are an excellent way to keep in touch with what’s going on!

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If you don’t yet receive our newsletters let us know and we can ensure you are added to the mailing listable

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… and more!

We’re always looking to add more opportunities for learners to:

  • Shape their experience
  • Network
  • Share their interests

There a variety of extracurricular activities (beyond technical learning) going on. For example:

  • Movie club (on Thursdays)
  • Running club (on Mondays)
  • Mosaics club (on Tavies vision board)

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Have your say!

Complete a short survey to let Founders and Coders know what kinds of extracurricular activities you would like to participate in and what are your availability preferences