Programming school opens campus in Porto for 100% free training

Taking advantage of offering – yes, offering – training in an area of high demand for manpower, the 42 programming school is now set up in Porto. The first program starts in October and, during the Summer, the admission bootcamps are ready to receive six hundred candidates.

No teachers, no schedules, no requirements, no fees, with gamification. This is how the training at 42 is presented. With a 100% free program, paid for by patrons, no academic curriculum or programming experience is required. Candidates are only required to be at least 17 years old and have completed the 12th grade.

In a statement, 42 explains that “in this school you learn with practice, developing projects among peers, in a model that looks like a game. Thus, in addition to technical skills, each student develops the ability to communicate, work in a team and solve problems, as well as creativity, autonomy and resilience”.

For the director of the school in Portugal, “opening the Porto campus is a natural step in the growth of 42”. “This new school will considerably increase our territorial operations, allowing us to offer the program to everyone, in the North of the country who want to develop technology skills”, believes Pedro Santa Clara, who recalls how “the need for professionals with technology skills is growing and increasingly transversal to all industries”.

The first program at the Invicta starts in October and the admission pooling, bootcamps where candidates spend 26 intensive days learning the basis of programming, with space for 600 candidates, take place in July, August, and September. The objective is to hold four pooling per year to select 200 students to start the program.

Founded in Paris in 2013, 42 took its name from the Sci fi work “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, by Douglas Adam, where “42” emerges as the answer to the meaning of life, the Universe and everything. The school currently has more than 15 thousand students in 25 countries and arrives in Porto with the support of Porto City Hall, with Critical Techworks and SaltPay as founding partners.