Got accepted onto a scholarship course! Thank you MN!

[Nicecupofteaandacake]

I was reading a thread on here a few weeks ago about career options/changing career - it's something I have been considering for some time as there is no future in my industry (certainly no chance of progression), but I haven't been able to decide what to retrain in.

Working in Tech was coming up a lot, and a poster recommended Code First Girls. I started looking into things, and applied for a scholarship - and today I got accepted!!!

So thank you Mumsnet! My course starts on the 12th August, I'm so looking forward to it, and I am so hopeful for my future!

Good luck!

That's amazing!!

That’s awesome! Go you!!

That's brilliant. Well done and enjoy your course!

Ooooohhhhh you have just inspired me to have a look. I can code in VBA and would love to learn to code in another language and am looking at sql.

Most impressive and all the best

Nice one!

Yay!!! Well done.

Which course is it??

I recommended Girls Code First recently as I'm taking a Python course with them atm ☺️

@Spexy it’s the python course I am doing! How do you find it? I don’t know a huge amount about coding or programming, but I am really enjoying researching about it all and looking forward to learning - it’s totally different from what I do now.

Sounds fab!

@Nicecupofteaandacake ah fantastic!

I have found it great - the instructors are lovely. The homework can be pretty tricky in places. I've got my final week this week, where we are presenting some projects we've worked on. (We made a top trumps game with pokemon characters!)

Any questions feel free to throw them my way.

I've now applied for the nano degree which is sponsored by an employer- you get a job at the end of it too, which will be great if I pass the test / interview!

Can anyone pop back and let me know how you got on? I'm wondering how competitive the places are at the moment.

I'm interested in an update too!

How did your course go?
I'm just about to start the web dev one this week and I hope to do one of the scholarships next year. The timing of 6:30-8:30 is supposed to support working mum's, but it's prime bedtime in my house!