Software Engineering with AI Bootcamp
Ship a full-stack product with coding agents, then prove the defect is fixed.
Software Engineering with AI Bootcamp is a 12-week live online bootcamp, taught on Zoom by one instructor at about 15 hours a week, with 6 deployed projects and a one-to-one every week. The founding price is A$200, down from A$400. Live sessions run on weekday evenings from 5:30 PM Sri Lanka and India time, with full-day sessions at weekends.
- Week 1Todo APIA small API with three routes and a database table, built with Copilot and deployed
- Weeks 1–2FoundationsA working web application with auth and a database, deployed
- Week 3First Test SuiteA test suite of ten unit tests for one module, running in GitHub Actions
- Weeks 3–4Core craftThe app under test with a CI pipeline, deployed on every merge
- Weeks 5–6Squad buildA squad feature shipped through review, deployed
- Week 7Input Validation FixA validation layer that rejects bad input on every route, with tests for each case
- Weeks 7–8Security and reliabilityA hardening pass: three defects found, fixed and proved with tests
- Week 9Error MonitoringAn error tracking setup that reports exceptions from your app with useful context
- Weeks 9–10CapstoneThe capstone: your product in production with monitoring
- Weeks 11–12Employer brief and hiring sprintThe employer brief shipped, and demo day
- weeks, live on Zoom
- 12
- hours a week
- 15
- projects to build
- 10
- minutes 1-1, every week
- 30
Who it is for, and what you receive.
People with some programming who want to become full-stack engineers the way the job now works: with coding agents, and with proof the code is right.
Some programming; the first block starts from a blank repo.
- Live on Zoom
- 4h
- Recorded lessons and exercises
- 6h
- The project
- 5h
- 1
Six deployed projects
Each graded by Nova against a published rubric and signed off by the instructor at the gate.
- 2
The recorded lessons
The track's lessons and exercises, graded line by line, open for twelve months after the cohort ends.
- 3
Live on Zoom every week
A 90-minute live code review, a 60-minute squad lab, 60 minutes of office hours, and a 30-minute 1-1 with your instructor.
- 4
Your hiring plan
Opened in week 1 and reviewed in every 1-1: target roles, the gap map, the proof list, weekly actions, an interview log, the outcome.
- 5
The record
Every grade and every project with its repository at square1ai.com/u/{handle}, and the recording of your viva, verifiable by any employer.
- 6
The certificate
A credential ID that resolves at square1ai.com/verify to the real completion.
- 7
The hiring sprint
Weeks 11 and 12: CV and portfolio from graded work, applications, mock interviews scored against the role, demo day.
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Nova for twelve weeks
A tutor with every submission of yours in its memory, at 2am as well as in class.
Twelve weeks in six parts.
Each part teaches for a week, then you build and deploy a project, then a gate checks it before the next part opens. The project and its gate are the part's entry on your record.
Live time each week on Zoom: a 90-minute class where the instructor reviews real submissions, a 60-minute squad lab, 60 minutes of office hours, and your own 30-minute 1-1. Nothing is lectured live; the recorded lessons do that.
- Key skillsA full-stack app from scratch with an agentData model, auth and APIDeploying on day threeWeek 1
Foundations
- A full-stack app from scratch with an agent
- Data model, auth, API
- Deploying on day three
You build: A working app with auth and a database
Week 2Project 1: the app
- Production deploys
- Environment and secrets
You build: The app in production
Project 1 · the gate at week 2The app
A working web application with auth and a database, deployed
You hand in- Deployed app
- Data model
- Auth
- API
The gateSign up, sign in and the core action work in production.
What you can do by week 12.
Six deployed applications and features, a working knowledge of agentic software engineering, and the habit that matters most: proving the code is right before you say it is.
- 1
Build a full-stack web application with auth and a database from a blank repository with an agent, and deploy it on day three.
- 2
Put an application under test with a CI pipeline and review agent-written code with judgement.
- 3
Work in a squad on one repository through pull requests and code review.
- 4
Find, fix and prove defects, including the OWASP top ten, with tests.
- 5
Ship your own product to production with monitoring, performance and documentation.
- 6
Defend the code you and the agent wrote, on camera.
No placement rate is shown, because there are no graduates to count yet. The roles above are what the projects are built for.
Your record at week 12.
Every exercise and project is graded by Nova against a rubric you can read, and every grade is kept on one page an employer can open and run. This is what the programme writes to it.
- Graded, line by line
- Nova reads every submission against the brief and the rubric and returns a score, what you did well and what to fix.
- Six gates
- A block does not open until the previous project passes its gate. You always know where you are and what is next.
- A weekly 1-1
- Thirty minutes with your instructor, who has already read your code before the call.
- One page an employer can run
- Every grade, project and the viva recording at /verify. An employer opens it, runs the code and watches you defend it.
- Week 2Graded, gate signed
The app
Sign up, sign in and the core action work in production
- Week 4Graded, gate signed
Under test
Coverage on the core paths and a green pipeline
- Week 6Graded, gate signed
The squad feature
Every squad member reviewed and was reviewed
- Week 8Graded, gate signed
Three defects
Each fix has a failing test that now passes
The entries, not the grades: those are yours to earn. The page lives at /verify and an employer needs no account to open it.
8 entries, twelve weeks. Reserving a spot holds the founding price.
Reserve a seatHow we help you find a job.
The last block is not curriculum. It is the hiring sprint, and the proof you built in the ten weeks before it.
The whole plan on a few pages: the parts, the projects, the gates and the price. We email it to you.
Get the booklet- 1
Your hiring plan, from week 1
Six parts you and your instructor keep: target roles, the gap map from real postings, the proof to send, weekly actions, an interview log, the outcome. Read before every 1-1.
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The hiring sprint
Weeks 11 and 12: CV, portfolio, applications, mock interviews, and demo day in front of hiring partners.
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A record an employer can run
Your deployed projects and the recorded viva on /verify. An employer opens it, runs the code and watches you defend it.
- 4
The career agent
Paste a real job posting at /career and it maps the role to your graded work and what to do next.
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The roles directory
Every role we prepare people for, what it pays and what it asks, at /roles.
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One cohort, one instructor. Hold your spot.
A cohort of 25, one instructor, 12 weeks, six things you ship. Spot holders hear the start date first, and nothing is charged before you confirm.
- Six deployed applications and features
- A working knowledge of agentic software engineering
- A recorded viva
- Your record on /verify
About a minute. No account, no card, and nothing is charged until you confirm.