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Holberton School is a 9-month software engineering program built for people who are serious about breaking into technology. No CS degree required. No prior experience needed. Just the commitment to show up, work hard, and learn the way professional engineers actually do, by building real things alongside real people.
The program is project-based from day one. You won't sit through lectures. You'll tackle weekly projects, work through problems with your cohort, and develop the kind of instincts that employers actually hire for.
Holberton was founded in Silicon Valley in 2016 with a simple idea: the best way to learn software engineering is to do it. The model worked. The school has since expanded to 35+ campuses across North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Australia, producing thousands of working engineers across every continent.
The curriculum is the same one used globally, tested and refined across cultures, education systems, and job markets. What you learn here is what engineers are learning everywhere.
Australia needs 1.2 million tech workers by 2030. Traditional pathways are not keeping up. University ICT graduations are undersupplied by thousands each year, and vocational enrollments have been falling. The talent pipeline needs to broaden beyond people who studied computer science out of school.
We launched in Australia in January 2022 to be part of the solution. There was no good middle path for people who wanted to make a serious career move into technology. A university degree takes three to four years and costs tens of thousands of dollars. Short-form bootcamps get you started but rarely get you hired at the level that makes the investment worth it.
Holberton was built to close that gap. The program is long enough to build real depth, structured around the way engineers actually work, and backed by employer relationships that open doors for graduates from day one.
Our graduates have gone on to work at Canva, REA Group, PEXA, RACV, Sportsbet, AWS, NAB, the Department of Defence and more. The tech industry is moving fast right now and the fundamentals we teach are exactly what make you useful in that environment.
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Holberton is built on peer learning. There are no teachers standing at the front of a room delivering content. You learn by doing, and you deepen that learning by teaching.
Every week you work through projects, then bring what you've built and what you've learned into the group. You explain your thinking to your peers, you question theirs, and you work through problems together. This is how engineers actually develop in the workplace, and it is why Holberton graduates tend to hit the ground running when they start their first role.
How much you get out of the program is directly tied to how much you put in. Students who engage fully, who ask questions, who teach others, and who push through the hard weeks consistently outperform those who treat it like a course to be completed.
You should expect to commit 35+ hours a week across to complete the projects and keep pace with the program.
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Months 1 to 3. You start at the foundation. You begin with computational thinking and visual programming in Scratch, move quickly into text-based code, then spend the bulk of the trimester writing C. Working close to the machine teaches you how memory, data, and execution really behave, and that knowledge makes every higher-level language easier to reason about later. This is where you build the mental model that separates engineers who understand what they're doing from those who are just copying code.
Months 4 to 6. You move from low-level programming into Python and the craft of building complete applications. Because you already know how to program from your work in C, the Python track moves quickly past basic mechanics into language features, good design, and real systems. This is where the program starts to look like the work you'll do in your first engineering role.
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