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right. Well, thank you for having me to real pleasure. Looking forward to help as many students assed possible eso Where did I Why did why did I start white? Traditionally, I would say, uh, education in computer science blended with economics. So I started really, as a developer myself, back in France on then My third job, waas with Microsoft on it was back in 1998. So if you remember, if maybe you're old enough, you will know that that was the first Internet boom at the time on we experienced as well the first Internet crunch at the time. Eso Throughout those years, I evolved from being a developer to looking into partner trips and business development at Microsoft on when I left Microsoft, uh, kind of four years ago, 34 years ago. Now I was actually in charge off learning on online, learning at at Microsoft and really helping anyone in the world learn Microsoft Technologies online. And that's very much what has reshaped my career. And that's also what really inspired me to stop new can because, as I mentioned, I was really looking after purely online learning at the time on knowing the pitfalls off online learning, especially how difficult it waas for students to stay motivated and to complete their learning journey. There are numbers out there that says that only 3% off online learners actually complete what they intended to do. On then, on the other side of the spectrum, you had very traditional schools, campuses, buildings, full time professors, very expensive schools that were asking students to quit their jobs in order to learn to code. And so that's how New Game came about. It's really trying to find a middle ground that will still be inspired by the flexibility, the affordability of online, but bring the level of commitment and rigor that more traditional education will provide.
Yeah, that's a great question. So Ah, boot camp are really focused on Web development, and so for that we are really laser focused on JavaScript. As you can imagine, it's the number one development Web development language out there. We have three distinct programs. Boot camps. The very first one is a four week introduction boot camp that talks about HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It's really to get your hands dirty. I would say Check if really learning to code is something that you will like that something that is for you the real, I would say, the rial boot camp that really prepares you for career eyes 22 weeks long. And during that time you're going to spend the majority off your learning experience online during the week from, uh, Sunday to stoop. Friday, we say, but on Saturday you will have a four hour in person walk shop with your local and structure and your local local classmates. Now I say that that waas we covet 19 with Corbyn 19. We had to move that in person experience online, but we're planning to bring it back in multiple cities across the US in person. Whenever you know the copy threat is gone on, so that's ah total. If you want to do from beginning to end, that's a total off 26 weeks of learning, and we asked students to be ready to spend spend anywhere between 20 to 40 hours are given week to them.
Yeah, so we created. Actually, we re created our courses back in September. We had a pretty established curriculum already, but what really helps us to refine it and improve it is two things primarily the very first one is we ask for feedback from our students on a weekly basis on some weekly basis. We asked students to give us feedback on the instructor the quality of the instructor, but also the quality of the curriculum itself on that very often allows us to ADM or exercises. So one field that we got waas we really want more ends on exercises on that particular week or that area is not covered enough. We want to understand it more. And so we will create either additional videos, additional exercises and things like that. The second really input for curriculum are instructors themselves on. We actually have a really strong and structure community, and we actually implemented off course development process in get huh? So you can actually create a bag, you can create a feature. So our courses are really like, uh, projects on get hub where instructors actually get to, you know, request additional features off. Ask us to find to fix a bird. The typo that we have on our curriculum on lastly, So they're not really the two elements that we have to always a perfect or existing curriculum. And then, of course, we're looking at what's going on in the industry. So we want, for example, toe add a python curriculum, tow our boot camps on to really make sure that we also offer that level of knowledge to students. And that's really by, you know, being expert in the industry, looking at what's happening out there on and finding the topics that are the most relevance, the most relevant for students.