Training Software Engineers with David Yang and Nimit Maru



“Javascript is like English – it hitched itself to the most powerful horse in the history of mankind, the web, and it has really exploded since then.”
Fullstack Academy is a 13-week immersive program for students to learn software engineering. Their flagship course focuses primarily on Javascript and the associated frameworks used to build real-world web applications.
David Yang and Nimit Maru are the Co-founders of Fullstack Academy. They were part of the Y Combinator summer 2012 class.
Questions
- How did you get the idea to start Fullstack Academy?
- Why do you teach Javascript as the foundational language?
- How does Fullstack Academy differ from other coding bootcamps?
- When you first applied to Y Combinator, what did your product do?
- What is your vision for the endgame of Fullstack Academy?