The only difference between in-person courses and virtual courses is that when opting to join the virtual courses, Recruits will communicate with colleagues and instructors mostly through video conference. Virtual Recruits will attend virtual courses and be provided with instructions and a support person just as if they were in the office. Access to mentors throughout the day and the entire program is provided by LaunchPad to all Recruits. 

Advanced skills, techniques and fundamentals that are in high demand by the current job market in the software development industry.
I terms of languages, You will learn Swift5, React, React Native, C#, Kotlin, Java, AWS, third party software tools, Git practices, Interviewing, Communication 101 and much more. Our program will focus on the specific language(s) and the frameworks within the course you select. We want you to love what you are learning and be confident to launch your software development career when you are done!

At least one year of programming experience would be best. This includes any boot camps or post-secondary learning. LaunchPad takes junior developers and advances them to an intermediate level; for this reason, we do require basic knowledge of software development.
All applicants will be asked a series of questions through our phone interview to determine if they have enough experience to enter the program. The goal of LaunchPad is to provide an enhanced and accelerated learning environment to grow a junior developer or developer’s skillset using modern frameworks and languages that companies are actually demanding right now.

LaunchPad offers a 16-week program for much less than other courses or bootcamps. To see what courses are currently open for registration go to our Programs page.

You will be taught fundamentals, advanced techniques, skills, communication, program solving, critical thinking, business awareness and software development through 30-45 minute learning sessions. Each day will have 1-2 sessions and mentoring throughout the day. For this reason, you will learn more in 16-weeks at LaunchPad than in any other software program. At the end of each week, you will be able to review the week’s discussions and challenges and will have the opportunity to follow up with any questions that you may have. Our mentors will be with you during the whole program to guide you and support you throughout your program.

A day at LaunchPad is like a day on the job. You will learn, train and work on sample projects as if you were an employee on the job. The experience will be fun but full of hard work. We are preparing you for the industry through training you to be better in order to get better-paying job faster.

With all LaunchPad Recruits, we support you and will help you transition into your new job. Post-graduation, our team will be here to answer any questions you have for just about anything related to software development. While at LaunchPad, we are working in the industry to get you hired as soon as you complete the LaunchPad program, because we know what we are teaching is exactly what companies are looking for.

You may use your own laptop as long as it has these minimum system requirements:
– CPU – Intel core i5 or better or AMD equivalent
– Ram – 6+ Gigabytes
– Hard drive – 150 Gigabyte or larger SSD

We develop in order to teach you. Our program guides our Recruits through processes that have been successful within the Vog App Developers team on many projects. For this reason, we know what works and why.

We cannot guarantee job placement, but we do guarantee our investment in you because we will be job hunting for you while you are in the LaunchPad program. Our team will work with our business partners to find suitable jobs to apply for, and that match what you are looking for. Your success is our success.