Le Wagon brings immersive coding bootcamp to Cape Town

Following the launch of coding schools in Mauritius and Casablanca, the global coding school Le Wagon has now also opened a Cape Town campus in partnership with the Red & Yellow Creative School of Business.

Described as the world’s leading coding bootcamp, Le Wagon runs immersive coding training sessions at 45 campuses worldwide. Typically, people sign up for either a nine-week full-time or 24-week part-time bootcamp in which they learn how to build software and solve problems.

Red & Yellow managing director Verusha Maharaj says, “We have always focused on next-generation skills, and we realised that coding has become a crucial part of this. Hence the decision to partner with the leading coding bootcamp in the world.”

Trusted by global industry leaders such as Google, Amazon and Apple, Le Wagon has trained over 15 000 students globally. According to the school’s last published European student outcome data, 93% of graduates received a job offer, started a freelance career, or created their own start-up within six months of completing a programme.

Le Wagon’s Cape Town manager, Ryan Brouwer, adds, “Equipping graduates with the right skills in key sectors is critical to driving transformation and supporting inclusive growth. Coding bootcamps respond to this challenge, offering a practical and intensive format to both entry-level and mature learners, providing them with the ability to become a competent junior web developer within just three months.”

He explains that Le Wagon focuses on the practical skills required to secure employment in the tech sector, while removing the extensive cost and time investments needed in traditional models. With no technical prerequisite to attend, the intensive programme offers opportunities for students of all levels, and is inclusive and accessible to reach a wide audience.

Le Wagon offers globally recognised certification

The short and intensive bootcamps in web development and data science will enable a student to build their own web applications from scratch or work autonomously on data science projects. It offers internationally recognised certification for future-fit professions.

“Although Cape Town can be regarded as one of the major tech hubs in Africa, in global terms it’s still relatively young,” says Brouwer.

“Cities like Lisbon have, for the past few years, focused heavily on developing this scene through incentivising innovation, focusing on improving the availability of coding education, and creating mechanisms for small start-ups to connect with potential investors.

“The result has transformed the city into Europe’s ‘Silicon Valley’. Cape Town has a similar potential to become this for Africa and the impact that it could have for the broader economy is far-reaching.”

Le Wagon Cape Town’s campus will be based at the Red & Yellow Creative School of Business in Woodstock with its first full-time web development bootcamp taking place on Monday, 29 August.

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