I agree with this, most of the time.

But we are driving a standards-first and trauma-informed curriculum.

AnnieCannons trains, prepares, and connects individuals who have experienced human trafficking to sustainable careers in tech.

We rebuild our students' confidence in themselves, reignite their joy of learning, and provide an environment where they may trust their community to teach them the economic skills to obtain and keep a career in a field with reasonable pay.

For those reasons, we can’t teach to the latest hottest technology. It has no track record and may not be there tomorrow. Therefore, we teach the basics: semantic HTML, foundational CSS, and vanilla JavaScript. After they learn vanilla JavaScript, we introduce them to a bit of React, plus connecting to databases and APIs (making them “full stack” for the employers who value such things).

Our students are all races, genders, and ages. We accept them as they are. As such, it is part of our values to teach accessibility from the start, integrated into their code, starting with semantic HTML.

Our students learn to start with HTML, then apply CSS, then apply JavaScript sparingly over top to provide the levels of interactivity required and no more.

We are writing this curriculum now. Our students are learning this curriculum now, and they are thriving because of it.

I arrived at AnnieCannons with the goal of creating the best bootcamp curriculum on the planet. With our small and mightly team of amazing instructors, student success managers, and career development managers, we are succeeding and growing our standards-first, trauma-informed curriculum.