I didn’t really explain too much about how this is going to work. I mentioned a few times that there will be 3 courses but didn’t go into details…​

The goal is to create something that’s more manageable for you and for us. An important part of taking a course is completing it and this is often difficult. However, if it’s three courses you can set a goal to finish one each month and it would be far more attainable.

Segmenting the material allows more structure and ideally more people reaching that coveted 100% complete stage!

The courses will be:

We will produce at least one new module for the courses every month for the next two years.

Guaranteed!

That means at least 24 additional modules beyond what we have on launch.

Once every 3 months (once a quarter) we’ll build a complete application as a module. Based on the current vote results it seems that the first app will be an Uber clone. In the module I’ll implement the app and teach you how to build such an app. This means we’ll implement 8 additional apps in total over the next two years (in additional to the 2 already in the course) and I’ll teach you how to build each one of those apps.

I think this update commitment is crucial to keep the material fresh and up to date.

Speaking about this, thanks again for taking the time and voting!

This is the current set of results:

This isn’t final yet and I’ll redo a survey after launch for the 3rd app onwards so the question is whose number 2 after Uber clone?

That’s still open…​

These are pretty huge courses that literally cover everything you need to bring apps to production from idea to UI design all the way to deploying your cloud server to a VPS.

I don’t like cutting corners so I try to cover as much as possible. Since the courses will be updated over the years and add additional application types I’m very confident that this scope will further expand with samples and subjects as we move forward.

This depends on stamina, they are designed in sequence and the material gets harder on a curve. The first course should be easy, the second moderate and the third is harder…​
There probably won’t be blood sweat and tears (hopefully) but the final course isn’t easy.

The final course is designed to teach practical real world development techniques and that might be difficult for some. It’s an advanced course that will hopefully prepare you for real world workloads, problems & shortcuts.

As usual you will get all the regular help in the forum, stackoverflow etc. Since this is an official course from Codename One we can answer the questions there.

Furthermore, the course itself also includes discussion per module which you can also use. It has the advantage of being a part of the course and that way you can help future students using the course by asking the relevant questions.

Yes. This is material that’s built specifically for these courses. Some of the materials were featured in the bootcamp or based on materials that appeared there but most of the material is either completely new or reworked. It won’t be available anywhere else for the next two years.

No. This is a standard course and you can take it at your leasure. Access to the course isn’t time limited.
Teachable (who we use for our new course materials) used the term perpetual which I personally find “problematic” as I’m pretty sure access will not survive the Sun going supernova.

Having said that, we plan to keep the course online as long as possible and ideally as long as it’s useful. We also guarantee new materials will be added to the courses over the next 2 years at least!

Not at this time. We’d like to add Codename One certification but this is a pretty difficult process to go thru (on our side).

However, the best way to market your skills is by showcasing an attractive application. Showing and deploying such an application is a core goal of this course.

At first I thought we should launch the new courses with the 3.7 release next week. However, one might overshadow the other so we’ll publish the courses Monday and release Codename One 3.7 on Tuesday. Keep an eye on this…​

Two weeks after registration closed for the bootcamp we still got a lot of emails from people claiming they didn’t know the bootcamp was available or sold out. I felt I sent too many emails but people still missed it and were very disappointed. I hope we don’t get something like this with the coming launch so please keep an eye on the blog next week.

Thanks again for all the great feedback, comments & votes. They are all highly appreciated especially when they are mixed with constructive criticism. Please keep it coming and let me know what you think.