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Online + in-person | Mon–Fri | 8am–5pm EAT
Physical classes: Applewood Adams, 13th Floor, Ngong Road, Nairobi.
Tuition
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Build digital products
Software Engineering
A practical route into software engineering for learners who want to understand how digital products are planned, built, tested, and improved.
Duration
16 weeks
Next intake
October 1st, 2026
Learning format
Guided practice, mentor feedback, and project work
The LEA learning experience
A practical pathway for real progress.
A practical route into software engineering for learners who want to understand how digital products are planned, built, tested, and improved. Leave with a portfolio-ready project, a clearer technical vocabulary, and a repeatable way to keep building.
Web foundations
Product thinking
Project practice
Flexible ways to learn
Choose your learning rhythm.
Pick the rhythm that gives you the clearest space to learn, practise, and keep moving.
Inside the pathway
Curriculum breakdown.
6 modules · 1 break included
Weeks 1–2
Digital foundations
Weeks 1–2
Digital foundations
Start with how the web works, the tools engineers use, and a reliable workflow for learning by doing.
Build project
Build an accessible LEA learner profile page and publish a short README explaining your choices.
Covers:How the web worksDeveloper toolsGit & GitHubLearning workflow
Weeks 3–5
Frontend foundations
Weeks 3–5
Frontend foundations
This stage takes learners from the structure of a web page into confident frontend practice. You will work with semantic HTML, CSS, responsive layouts, accessibility, component thinking, and the habits needed to test an interface across real devices before moving on to application behaviour and backend services.
Build project
Build a responsive community services directory that works on a phone and desktop.
Covers:Semantic HTMLCSS layoutsResponsive UIAccessibility
Weeks 6–8
JavaScript & interaction
Weeks 6–8
JavaScript & interaction
Add behaviour to interfaces and learn how to reason through state, events, APIs, and bugs.
Build project
Build a live conditions dashboard using a public weather API with loading, empty, and error states.
Covers:Logic & dataDOM & eventsAsync APIsDebugging
Week 9
Mid-programme reset
Week 9
Mid-programme reset
Pause, review your progress, get mentor feedback, and return with a sharper plan for the backend build.
Build project
Complete a portfolio review, prioritised backlog, and mentor feedback record before the backend build.
Covers:Rest & reflectionPortfolio check-inMentor review
Weeks 10–12
Backend & data
Weeks 10–12
Backend & data
This stage explains the systems behind a digital product. You will build routes and services, work with data, validation, authentication concepts, and error handling, then understand how a backend communicates with the frontend to support a secure and dependable product.
Build project
Build a learner enrolment REST API with courses, learners, progress records, validation, and endpoint tests.
Covers:Node & API routesDatabasesAuthenticationValidation
Weeks 13–14
Full-stack integration
Weeks 13–14
Full-stack integration
This stage connects the interface, application behaviour, APIs, and backend into one working product. You will practise moving data through the full system, handling forms and states, testing the important flows, and preparing the project for deployment with confidence.
Build project
Build the LEA enrolment and payment simulator with M-Pesa-like pending, success, failure, cash, and admin states.
Covers:Client-server flowForms & stateTestingDeployment
Weeks 15–16
Capstone & portfolio
Weeks 15–16
Capstone & portfolio
Bring the full journey together in a guided capstone and shape a clear story around the work you made.
Build project
Ship a community learning operations portal combining catalogue, enrolment, progress, payments, and an admin dashboard.
Covers:Product scopeBuild sprintDemo dayPortfolio story