Seeda School is for black women, femmes, and feminists looking to build a coding project portfolio for their community, potential clients, and/or future employers. If you’re needing more structure, accountability, and guidance than most self-paced curriculum offer and a more financially accessible option than the expensive tuition of a full-time coding bootcamp or computer science degree then Seeda School sits in the middle leveraging a reputable coding curriculum coupled with custom paced coaching offering guidance and project development support while holding you accountable to your coding goals.

Coaching is billed monthly at $300. This purchase includes 4 weekly, 60min. 1:1 virtual calls where we will work together to develop your coding projects. You can choose to not renew for another month at any time. Unfortunately, there are no refunds for incomplete coaching sessions. See scheduling policy for more information.

All four weekly coaching calls are scheduled as soon as you enroll. We recommend scheduling all four as soon as possible to lock in a time most aligned with your availability. Coaching calls can only be scheduled Tuesday-Friday 1pm-5pm EST.

Before enrollment, please carefully consider your existing time commitments. You can always reschedule calls inside the Seeda School dashboard for a different day/time within the same week, but please note there are no refunds for incomplete coaching calls during each month of enrollment. For example, each month of enrollment grants you access to 4 virtual 60min. weekly coaching calls. One call per week. If you need to cancel a coaching call during a month of enrollment, you will now have 3 weekly calls for that month and will not be refunded $75 for that missed call. Of course, if there is a scheduling conflict inside Seeda School we will ensure the call is made up and/or rescheduled at no additional cost to you. This scheduling policy is meant to hold you accountable to your coding goals while also honoring my time and commitment as your coach. Please email us at [email protected] if you have any clarifying questions about this policy.

1. Weekly, 60 min. virtual 1-on-1’s for project development support, answering coding questions, and troubleshooting. In each coaching session we will pair program on your coding projects. I will help you design, build, and launch your website.
2. A customized milestone map based on your goals and timeline to structure your coding journey.
3. A coding syllabus built on the freeCodeCamp curriculum woven with the experiments and visions of black feminist thinkers and practitioners.
4. Accountability through personalized coaching and weekly deliverables based on your progress, goals, and learning style.
5. 1-on-1 help with learning how to launch your portfolio projects so they are publicly accessible on the web to your creative community, potential web design clients, and/or future employers.

1. Self-teaching coding is hard. You don’t know what you don’t know and often times you’re learning things in the wrong order. When I was self-teaching I was trying to learn React before I learned JavaScript. This caused a lot of frustration and wasted time. As your coach I will help you learn what you need to know when you need to know it based on your coding goals.
2. Imposter syndrome is real. This is probably the biggest reason I started Seeda School. While teaching at a coding bootcamp for years I noticed the folks who struggled with imposter syndrome the most were often the most marginalized. It’s not enough to focus only on the code. So much of our progress can be attributed to mindset. As your coach I will help you cultivate positive thought work and nurture an empowered mindset as you embark on learning what is a creative and delightful but sometimes challenging skill called web development.
3.  Accountability. Teaching yourself consistently for two weeks and then falling off to return a month later having forgot everything you learned keeps you in a cycle of stunted progress and frustration which ends up fueling imposter syndrome and lack of motivation. This is the most common reason I see people give up on learning this skill (or really any skill when you’re trying to go at it alone).

The freeCodeCamp curriculum is open source and has been around since 2014, with thousands of volunteers contributing improvements. This means Seeda School learners have the opportunity to make contributions if there’s something we’d like to change or improve. freeCodeCamp has also built in accessibility considerations such as internet speed, screen readers, and a free curriculum for folks from all income backgrounds. Lastly, every year thousands of people who join the freeCodeCamp community get their first software developer job. If you're curious, you can browse their alumni network on LinkedIn.

The community also has:

• A forum where you can usually get programming help or project feedback within hours.
• A YouTube channel with free courses on JavaScript, SQL, Android, and a wide variety of other technologies.
• A technical publication with thousands of programming tutorials and articles about math and computer science.
• A Discord server where you can hang out and talk with developers and people who are learning to code.

With that said, we do not represent freeCodeCamp and we are not officially affiliated in any way. Seeda School is not officially endorsed by freeCodeCamp but its curriculum is leveraged by many educators and coaches globally (like us), thanks to it’s open source BSD-3 license.

I want to see the interdisciplinary experiments that emerge from black feminist software.

I believe it is imperative that software development is taught through a black feminist lens. There are so many black feminist scholars, researchers, and artists providing visions and questions for technologies that don’t feed surveillance capitalism. They’re contributing to our collective imagination toward building for each other and not the carceral system or consumerism. Black feminists are presenting proposals for platforms rooted in care for our data, our social lives, and ecosystems. We didn’t see a coding school teaching alongside black feminism so we created it.

No. At this time we only offer coaching for the Responsive Web Design Certification but we will add certifications such as JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures, Front End Development Libraries and Back End Development and APIs in the coming months.

No. At this time we are solely focused on delivering project development support and coaching for the freeCodeCamp Responsive Web Design certification.