Unique and proven curriculum
Hive Helsinki’s full-time, on-site program is built on learning by doing. You’ll gain solid technical skills, develop essential soft skills, and graduate ready to thrive in the tech industry.
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As a Hive student, you start with elementary Go projects to learn the fundamentals of programming. You will then work on a wide range of real-world projects with your peers and become well-rounded junior programmers ready for employment!
The core curriculum offers dozens of projects and is regularly refreshed to stay up-to-date with the demands of the industry.
After the selection sprint, you focus on projects carefully designed to teach you the tools, skills and mindset which form the important foundation necessary for your education: the Unix command line, version control, imperative programming, basic data structures and algorithms, etc.
With the basics acquired, more challenging projects and larger teams await. You will be tasked with developing several full-stack applications, which require learning a wide range of backend and front-end technologies, tool chains and development methods, while consolidating your fundamentals.
The last step of your studies is to focus on one field of interest, such as DevOps, cloud, SysAdmin, or mobile app development.
Test your new skills in the real world by finding employment, and report back after 4-6 months to validate your work experience.
Once you have completed all your projects and validated your work experience, you graduate and become a Hive Alumni. This means you are part of a valuable network of friends working in over 100 top-tier technology companies.
Skills developed in the program
The curriculum covers a wide range of skills necessary for a software engineer: fundamental technical skills, but also the necessary mindset for critical thinking and complex problem-solving, ability to work in teams and exchange constructive feedback, self-organize and take initiative. Most importantly: learning how to learn, adapt quickly, be flexible, agile and proactive developers.
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Programming fundamentals in Go
Begin your journey as a programmer with Go, a modern, efficient and proven programming language used by industry leaders. Start by learning the basic syntax and semantics of the language, such as variables and control flow, before moving on to more complex concepts.
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Data structures and algorithms
Learn to translate abstract, human-readable requirements into the concrete and formal world of low-level machines. Train how to represent, store and manipulate information, and how to transform problems into step-by-step instructions efficiently executable by the computer, until it is a second nature to you.
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Backend and API development
Discover how applications work behind the scene: write the software that runs in the cloud, providing services to be used by the rest of your app, connects them to databases and provides the business logic necessary to provide functionality, in a performant and scalable way.
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Network programming
Explore communication protocols and enable multiple devices and programs to transfer data across networks while keeping an eye out for potential security vulnerabilities.
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Front-end and web development
Build interactive applications and delve into web development by developing your first web app using, among other things, JavaScript, HTML and CSS, then TypeScript and web frameworks. Design and implement practical and beautiful user interfaces.
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DevOps and Systems administration
Configure computer networks and learn about deployment and application isolation through virtual machines and Docker.
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Work practices in software organizations
Become familiar with all the tasks surrounding the programming itself, that will represent a significant portion of your work in a dev team: code reviews, iterative development, version control, automated testing, continuous deployment, maintenance and bug fixing, etc.
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And many more…
The core studies are complemented with a large variety of extracurriculars, designed to broaden your knowledge and skill set, as well as foster your creativity, curiosity and interest in many different applications of your core competencies. Short projects, workshops and game jams encourage you to explore many tools and languages, experiment, and build up your portfolio.