Software Engineering Accelerator - Vets Who Code

New Cohort Starts: Apr 05, 2027
Seventeen weeks, remote-first, free. The learning platform carries the things that don’t change, so the hours with people go where they actually count — pairing, reviewing and building real software with you.
We screen for fit, not pedigree. It is worth being honest with yourself before you spend twelve minutes on an application.
Fit cuts both ways. These are the lines we hold, for every troop.
A course hands you a video library. An accelerator puts the durable material on a platform and spends the human hours on the work that needs a human.
Remote-first is not self-serve. Sessions are scheduled and you are expected at them. Nobody is handed a login and left alone with a video library.
Syntax, fundamentals, the things that are the same this year as they were last year — those live on the learning platform, where you can take them at your speed and repeat them as many times as you need.
That is the whole point of moving the durable material onto the platform: it buys back the hours. We spend them pairing with you, reviewing your code and building real things — the work that actually needs another engineer in the room.
Nothing completes because a video ended. Each concept names the thing you produce and the criterion it is judged against, and you meet it three times at decreasing support. Trained to standard, or not trained — and the artifacts accumulate.
There is no capstone. Engineers are always building, learning, writing and thinking — seventeen weeks is where that habit starts, not where it ends. What you carry out is the evidence that accumulated while you trained.
Engineers think in writing. Explaining a decision is how you find out whether you actually understood it — and it is the thing a hiring manager can read before they ever speak to you.
Opened, reviewed, revised, merged, with the conversation still attached. A PR history is the most honest record there is of how someone works with other people.
Real functionality in real codebases, shipped to real users — not a demo built to be graded and then abandoned.
Every concept names the artifact that proves it and the criterion it is judged against, and the learning platform records what you met. The claim is checkable, not asserted.
What we teach is not a matter of taste. It is a map of how skills rest on one another, built from labor-market demand and published in full so you can check it.
Links, each with a written reason
Domains across 8 subjects
Every concept carries the market evidence for why it is in the program and the criterion it is judged against. Every link between two concepts carries a sentence explaining what one gives the other. None of it gates you — it is there so you can see how we decide, how we train, and what any skill is actually made of.
Funded by donors and partners. No income share, no loan, no catch.
Remote-first, built around the life you already have.
EIN 86-2122804. What we teach is public and auditable.
Retool. Retrain. Relaunch.
Rolling applications · about 12 minutes · U.S. veterans, service members & spouses
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