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The Starter League teaches people from all backgrounds how to code and design web apps, allowing them to do powerful things with their lives via the web. During the 11-week course, students learn to work as a team and begin to embody the company motto of build more, do less.
Formally known as Code Academy, the educational startup went through a rebranding after announcing their partnership with 37signals last week. Founders Mike McGee and Neal Sales-Griffin said they decided to partner with Jason Fried, co-founder of 37Signals, after reading Rework. Sales-Griffin said it was this modern business manual written by Fried that spurred their passion for company culture.
Alongside their name change, The Starter League also announced the offering of two new classes: a Ruby on Rails course for designers who want to understand the back-end of creating web applications and an advanced Ruby course for aspiring software developers.
On Friday night the students took the stage at 1871 to present what they built. Each team explained the real-world problems they were solving by using technology in a five-minute presentation that resembled a pitch. The graduates explained how the school helped them to bring their ideas to life by thinking about their problems from a different approach and confidently facing new technologies while learning them on the fly.
“I build stuff for a living. Coming to the Starter League they gave me different tools but I continued to build stuff using HTML and CSS,” said Greg Maza, a student who refers to himself as a construction worker by trade and an entrepreneur by choice.
“It’s really not the end result we are looking at. What we are trying to put on display is what they learned and what they built,” said Jeff Cohen, a web development instructor at The Starter League.
