A Community Focused on Learning Most degrees or bootcamps focus on passing. In the real world, what interests employers and learners is the ability to learn and actual skill development. At Qwasar, our focus is on your learning growth and competency development, not passing or grades. Three things help foster learning:
Accountability
Accountability is a great driver for getting things done, and often that’s what we need when it comes to learning.

Encouragement
Get encouragement, keep going even when it’s tough.

Confidence That You’re Growing
Because other cohorts join after you, you’ll see for sure that you’ve learned and grown from one month ago or when you first started our programs. You can have confidence that you have grown, that your coding has improved, and that you’re closer to Silicon Valley standards.
Problem solving and critical thinking
Creativity and innovation
Good Communication
Collaboration and teamwork
Having Flexibility
Ability to solve complex problems
Contribute, Mentor, and Giveback Our goal is to continually develop and improve our platform, our programs, and our learning community. To do so, we need YOU to contribute, to mentor, and to giveback. As a learner, you benefit from help from others in the community, not just program advisors/manager, but also other learners.

We want you to be able to suggest project ideas, submit suggestions for projects, perhaps upgrade an exercise from plain to having a theme such as anti-plastic, climate change, cyberbullying, recycling, mental health, gardening, volcanoes or natural wonders, and more.
FUTURE-PROOF YOURSELF
At the core of both project-based learning and peer review is the skill of learning how to learn. Whether it’s investigating and researching relevant topics for a new project or trying to understand the structure and reasoning for a review’s work, students learn how to learn.
remember understand apply
remember understand apply
understand apply analyse
understand apply analyse
apply analyse evaluate
Create
apply analyse evaluate
Create
analyse evaluate
Create
analyse evaluate
Create
Create
evaluate understand
Create
evaluate understand
evaluate remember
evaluate remember
Guardians of the Galaxy: Leaders of Small Groups
Small groups are great ways to get project support, help with your code, and bonding amongst other cohorts. Groups are split by curricula, not by start date, meaning you’ll spend time with others who are on the same projects as you (or close by in the curriculum).

Small groups are led by Guardians of the Galaxy, student academic volunteers. Every Qwasar learner has an opportunity to become a guardian if they wish to help support and mentor other learners, especially ones newer to Qwasar.
MOOCs
Bootcamps
CS Degrees
Holberton
Qwasar
Lectures +
Simple exercises
Lectures +
1 Real project
Lectures +
5 Real project
10 Real projects + Instructors
All projects, no Instructors
Learners do not develop soft skills Learners develop 21st-century skills and soft skills
Selected Research
Below we share selected academic research articles.
PBL Review For a quick overview of some of the research on project-based learning, check out a publication from PBL Works.
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21st-c. Skills Stephanie Bell, in the Clearing House Journal of Educational Strategies, Ideas, and Issues, published on PBL and 21st-century skill development.
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Real World Projects Check out this resource on some of the many benefits of using relevant projects for real world application.
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PBL and Increased Engagement Take a look at how project-based learning affects career aspirations and attitudes in STEM.
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Acquisition of Technical Skills Explore how project-based learning encourages learners to gain technical knowledge and skills.
Learn more
PBL vs. Module Learning For a comparison of project-based learning and module-based learning, check out this Springer Link article.
Learn more
Laugh Like a Developer We’re a fun community at Qwasar. We appreciate programming humor. We love memes, and yes we have a meme channel on our Discord.

Laughing helps to appreciate the ups and downs of programming as well as lighten the learning journey. Highly engaging and challenging learning is intense – enjoying some humor is helpful!
How It Works
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Contribute to the Curriculum and Cool Projects
The Qwasar team is constantly monitoring trends and developments in the software space. Being part of Qwasar means also having the opportunity to help us develop new curricula and projects.

All curricula are alpha and beta tested first within the Qwasar community, meaning you get first-hand access to in-demand tracks such as Rust (no other company has Rust training to the level that we do!).
Who’s In Our Community?
Bootcamp Graduates
Engineers and Developers
Career Switchers
Small Business Owners
Veterans
Trade School Graduates
Peer Learning is Backed by Scientific Research
Below we share selected academic research articles on peer learning.
Peer Code Reviews Improve Code Effectiveness Tool-assisted code review improve the efficiency and effectiveness of code reviews – part of the Qwasar platform.
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Peer Learning Overview Take a comprehensive look at peer learning from an academic point of view in Boud, Cohen, and Sampson’s book.
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Trends in Peer Learning Over Multiple Decades Keith Topping looks at the trends and progress of peer learning over a couple of decades.
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Peer Assessment in Project-based Learning A constructivist perspective on peer assessment in project-based learning.
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Peer Learning Outcomes Improving the outcomes in software engineering education through problem based learning and peer learning.
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Peer Reviews Explore the value of peer reviews in software engineering and their effectiveness.
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Small Cohorts, Global Reach and United Online Qwasar programs exist all around the world. Our online programs are mostly in North America, and we work with partners to implement programs globally. When you join the Qwasar platform, you join a global platform of coders, learners, and mentors.

There’s power in small cohorts but a global online community. In the morning, your cohort might help you solve a problem, and in the afternoon, you might reply to a question on our online chat from someone on the other side of the world.

Small cohorts and a global reach are reflective of the work environment today and of the future of work in a global digital economy.
Feel Good, Do Good. Help Others in the Community!
A significant part of improving your own learning and comprehension is actually helping others. At Qwasar, when you help others understand their code or their software problems, you actually help yourself deepen your understanding of different concepts, best practices, and approaches to solving problems.

So in doing good, you can feel good and reinforce your own learning! Our Discord is an inspiring place – learners from across the globe help each other debug, problem solve, and review code daily.
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A United Learning Community When you join Qwasar, you enter a new way and world of learning, as well as a new community. We’re united by common beliefs about the future, about how people learn, and by a respect for top-level coding.

Today’s world is digital, so is the future.
Accountability is a great driver for getting things done, and often that’s what we need when it comes to learning.

Learning to code means digital freedom.
Get encouragement, keep going even when it’s tough.

Your code is your expression
At Qwasar, it doesn’t matter what your background is, where you come from, or what job you’re in. What matters is you, your code, and your learning. Coding and the choices you make is like an expression of who you are and how you think. We’re united by a common interest in how and what you code.
remember understand apply
remember understand apply
understand apply analyse
understand apply analyse
apply analyse evaluate
Create
apply analyse evaluate
Create
analyse evaluate
Create
analyse evaluate
Create
Create
evaluate understand
Create
evaluate understand
evaluate remember
evaluate remember
How Peer Code
Reviews Works
Selected Gamification in
Learning Research
Below we share some links to academic research articles or papers on gamification in learning.
Gamification Respected author Karl Knapp explores a solid overview of gamification in learning in his book, sharing what works and what doesn’t.
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Learning Behaviours Richard Langers looks at the use of gamification, game attribute taxonomies, and psychological theories.
Learn more
Overview Part of the Advances in Game-based Learning series, Gamification in Learning defines and explores the category.
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Gamification to Encourage High Quality Code Explore this article by ACM on using gamification to motivate learners and produce better quality code.
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E-Learning Learn more about how gamification is incorporated into e-learning for programming courses.
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Gamification for Programming Take a look at this article on how gamification is useful for programming in particular.
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Virtual Webinars
Join us for a session on what learning is like at Qwasar. Sign up to learn more about our program options and how each cohort works.
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Student Experience vs. Others
How do Qwasar programs compare to other tech training options out there? Find out how we stack up.
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Software drives our programs and learners access one of the world’s most innovative learning platforms for tech talent training.
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QWASAR Our Learning Community
Join an active learning community of coders, hackers, thinkers, engineers, and developers. Contribution is expected, growth is encouraged.
A Community Focused on Learning Most degrees or bootcamps focus on passing. In the real world, what interests employers and learners is the ability to learn and actual skill development. At Qwasar, our focus is on your learning growth and competency development, not passing or grades.

Three things help foster learning:
Accountability
Accountability is a great driver for getting things done, and often that’s what we need when it comes to learning.

Encouragement
Get encouragement, keep going even when it’s tough.

Confidence That You’re Growing
Because other cohorts join after you, you’ll see for sure that you’ve learned and grown from one month ago or when you first started our programs. You can have confidence that you have grown, that your coding has improved, and that you’re closer to Silicon Valley standards.
Problem solving and critical thinking
Creativity and innovation
Good Communication
Collaboration and teamwork
Having Flexibility
Ability to solve complex problems
Contribute, Mentor, and Giveback Our goal is to continually develop and improve our platform, our programs, and our learning community. To do so, we need YOU to contribute, to mentor, and to giveback. As a learner, you benefit from help from others in the community, not just program advisors/manager, but also other learners.

We want you to be able to suggest project ideas, submit suggestions for projects, perhaps upgrade an exercise from plain to having a theme such as anti-plastic, climate change, cyberbullying, recycling, mental health, gardening, volcanoes or natural wonders, and more.
FUTURE-PROOF YOURSELF
At the core of both project-based learning and peer review is the skill of learning how to learn. Whether it’s investigating and researching relevant topics for a new project or trying to understand the structure and reasoning for a review’s work, students learn how to learn.
remember
remember
understand
understand
apply
apply
analyse
analyse
evaluate
evaluate
Create
Create
Guardians of the Galaxy: Leaders of Small Groups
Small groups are great ways to get project support, help with your code, and bonding amongst other cohorts. Groups are split by curricula, not by start date, meaning you’ll spend time with others who are on the same projects as you (or close by in the curriculum).

Small groups are led by Guardians of the Galaxy, student academic volunteers. Every Qwasar learner has an opportunity to become a guardian if they wish to help support and mentor other learners, especially ones newer to Qwasar. If you aren’t solving problems but are asking for answers from an instructor, then you are hindered in developing problem-solving skills and learning how to be resourceful.

One of the most important things you need to learn to future-proof yourself is how to learn: unless you’re doing real project-based learning, you will depend on someone else to provide answers for you.
Laugh Like a Developer We’re a fun community at Qwasar. We appreciate programming humor. We love memes, and yes we have a meme channel on our Discord.

Laughing helps to appreciate the ups and downs of programming as well as lighten the learning journey. Highly engaging and challenging learning is intense – enjoying some humor is helpful!
Project Structure
Project order, size, complexity, and structure matters!
Our programs are structured such that projects start with basic concepts then become increasingly more difficult and more complex. This reflects a learner’s zone of proximal development.
Project Difficulty
It’s important for projects to gradually increase in difficulty as leaps that are too big will overwhelm and discourage learners, leading some of them to give up. There’s a balance between challenging and growing a learner slightly outside their comfort zone.
image_fx_ (24)
Contribute to the Curriculum and Cool Projects
The Qwasar team is constantly monitoring trends and developments in the software space. Being part of Qwasar means also having the opportunity to help us develop new curricula and projects.

All curricula are alpha and beta tested first within the Qwasar community, meaning you get first-hand access to in-demand tracks such as Rust (no other company has Rust training to the level that we do!).
Who's In Our Community?
Bootcamp Graduates
Engineers and Developers
Career Switchers
Small Business Owners
Veterans
Trade School Graduates
Small Cohorts, Global Reach and United Online Qwasar programs exist all around the world. Our online programs are mostly in North America, and we work with partners to implement programs globally. When you join the Qwasar platform, you join a global platform of coders, learners, and mentors.

There’s power in small cohorts but a global online community. In the morning, your cohort might help you solve a problem, and in the afternoon, you might reply to a question on our online chat from someone on the other side of the world.

Small cohorts and a global reach are reflective of the work environment today and of the future of work in a global digital economy.

Peer Review Process

Similar to the process for reviewing academic articles, the peer review process is the evaluation of submitted work by your peers who are competent in their field of knowledge. The peer review process requires analysis, critical thinking, and creativity in order to evaluate submitted work.
Communication Skills
The reviewer may have to explain what they have done and why, which helps them to develop communication skills. Reviewers need to understand quickly and identify possible areas where the submitted work does not meet project criteria, standards, or best practices.
Feel Good, Do Good. Help Others in the Community!
A significant part of improving your own learning and comprehension is actually helping others. At Qwasar, when you help others understand their code or their software problems, you actually help yourself deepen your understanding of different concepts, best practices, and approaches to solving problems.

So in doing good, you can feel good and reinforce your own learning! Our Discord is an inspiring place – learners from across the globe help each other debug, problem solve, and review code daily.
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A United Learning Community When you join Qwasar, you enter a new way and world of learning, as well as a new community. We’re united by common beliefs about the future, about how people learn, and by a respect for top-level coding.

Today’s world is digital, so is the future.
Accountability is a great driver for getting things done, and often that’s what we need when it comes to learning.

Learning to code means digital freedom.
Get encouragement, keep going even when it’s tough.

Your code is your expression
At Qwasar, it doesn’t matter what your background is, where you come from, or what job you’re in. What matters is you, your code, and your learning. Coding and the choices you make is like an expression of who you are and how you think. We’re united by a common interest in how and what you code.
remember
remember
understand
understand
apply
apply
analyse
analyse
evaluate
evaluate
Create
Create
Photo
Virtual Webinars
Join us for a session on what learning is like at Qwasar. Sign up to learn more about our program options and how each cohort works.
Photo
View Platform
Software drives our programs and learners access one of the world’s most innovative learning platforms for tech talent training.
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Explore Our Courses
From Rust to C++, full stack, AI, or data science, explore our shorter certificate courses.
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QWASAR Our Learning Community
Join an active learning community of coders, hackers, thinkers, engineers, and developers. Contribution is expected, growth is encouraged.
A Community Focused on Learning Most degrees or bootcamps focus on passing. In the real world, what interests employers and learners is the ability to learn and actual skill development. At Qwasar, our focus is on your learning growth and competency development, not passing or grades.

Three things help foster learning:
Accountability
Accountability is a great driver for getting things done, and often that’s what we need when it comes to learning.

Encouragement
Get encouragement, keep going even when it’s tough.

Confidence That You’re Growing
Because other cohorts join after you, you’ll see for sure that you’ve learned and grown from one month ago or when you first started our programs. You can have confidence that you have grown, that your coding has improved, and that you’re closer to Silicon Valley standards.
Problem solving and critical thinking
Creativity and innovation
Good Communication
Collaboration and teamwork
Having Flexibility
Ability to solve complex problems
Contribute, Mentor, and Giveback Our goal is to continually develop and improve our platform, our programs, and our learning community. To do so, we need YOU to contribute, to mentor, and to giveback. As a learner, you benefit from help from others in the community, not just program advisors/manager, but also other learners.

We want you to be able to suggest project ideas, submit suggestions for projects, perhaps upgrade an exercise from plain to having a theme such as anti-plastic, climate change, cyberbullying, recycling, mental health, gardening, volcanoes or natural wonders, and more.
FUTURE-PROOF YOURSELF
At the core of both project-based learning and peer review is the skill of learning how to learn. Whether it’s investigating and researching relevant topics for a new project or trying to understand the structure and reasoning for a review’s work, students learn how to learn.
remember
remember
understand
understand
apply
apply
analyse
analyse
evaluate
evaluate
Create
Create
Guardians of the Galaxy: Leaders of Small Groups
Small groups are great ways to get project support, help with your code, and bonding amongst other cohorts. Groups are split by curricula, not by start date, meaning you’ll spend time with others who are on the same projects as you (or close by in the curriculum).

Small groups are led by Guardians of the Galaxy, student academic volunteers. Every Qwasar learner has an opportunity to become a guardian if they wish to help support and mentor other learners, especially ones newer to Qwasar. If you aren’t solving problems but are asking for answers from an instructor, then you are hindered in developing problem-solving skills and learning how to be resourceful.

One of the most important things you need to learn to future-proof yourself is how to learn: unless you’re doing real project-based learning, you will depend on someone else to provide answers for you.
Laugh Like a Developer We’re a fun community at Qwasar. We appreciate programming humor. We love memes, and yes we have a meme channel on our Discord.

Laughing helps to appreciate the ups and downs of programming as well as lighten the learning journey. Highly engaging and challenging learning is intense – enjoying some humor is helpful!
Project Structure
Project order, size, complexity, and structure matters!
Our programs are structured such that projects start with basic concepts then become increasingly more difficult and more complex. This reflects a learner’s zone of proximal development.
Project Difficulty
It’s important for projects to gradually increase in difficulty as leaps that are too big will overwhelm and discourage learners, leading some of them to give up. There’s a balance between challenging and growing a learner slightly outside their comfort zone.
image_fx_ (24)
Contribute to the Curriculum and Cool Projects
The Qwasar team is constantly monitoring trends and developments in the software space. Being part of Qwasar means also having the opportunity to help us develop new curricula and projects.

All curricula are alpha and beta tested first within the Qwasar community, meaning you get first-hand access to in-demand tracks such as Rust (no other company has Rust training to the level that we do!).
Who's In Our Community?
Bootcamp Graduates
Engineers and Developers
Career Switchers
Small Business Owners
Veterans
Trade School Graduates
Small Cohorts, Global Reach and United Online Qwasar programs exist all around the world. Our online programs are mostly in North America, and we work with partners to implement programs globally. When you join the Qwasar platform, you join a global platform of coders, learners, and mentors.

There’s power in small cohorts but a global online community. In the morning, your cohort might help you solve a problem, and in the afternoon, you might reply to a question on our online chat from someone on the other side of the world.

Small cohorts and a global reach are reflective of the work environment today and of the future of work in a global digital economy.

Peer Review Process

Similar to the process for reviewing academic articles, the peer review process is the evaluation of submitted work by your peers who are competent in their field of knowledge. The peer review process requires analysis, critical thinking, and creativity in order to evaluate submitted work.
Communication Skills
The reviewer may have to explain what they have done and why, which helps them to develop communication skills. Reviewers need to understand quickly and identify possible areas where the submitted work does not meet project criteria, standards, or best practices.
Feel Good, Do Good. Help Others in the Community!
A significant part of improving your own learning and comprehension is actually helping others. At Qwasar, when you help others understand their code or their software problems, you actually help yourself deepen your understanding of different concepts, best practices, and approaches to solving problems.

So in doing good, you can feel good and reinforce your own learning! Our Discord is an inspiring place – learners from across the globe help each other debug, problem solve, and review code daily.
Photo
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A United Learning Community When you join Qwasar, you enter a new way and world of learning, as well as a new community. We’re united by common beliefs about the future, about how people learn, and by a respect for top-level coding.

Today’s world is digital, so is the future.
Accountability is a great driver for getting things done, and often that’s what we need when it comes to learning.

Learning to code means digital freedom.
Get encouragement, keep going even when it’s tough.

Your code is your expression
At Qwasar, it doesn’t matter what your background is, where you come from, or what job you’re in. What matters is you, your code, and your learning. Coding and the choices you make is like an expression of who you are and how you think. We’re united by a common interest in how and what you code.
remember
remember
understand
understand
apply
apply
analyse
analyse
evaluate
evaluate
Create
Create
Photo

Virtual Webinars

Join us for a session on what learning is like at Qwasar. Sign up to learn more about our program options and how each cohort works.
Learn more
Photo

View Platform

Software drives our programs and learners access one of the world’s most innovative learning platforms for tech talent training.
image_fx_ - 2024-11-19T175142.895

Explore Our Courses

From Rust to C++, full stack, AI, or data science, explore our shorter certificate courses.
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Join an active learning community of coders, hackers, thinkers, engineers, and developers. Contribution is expected, growth is encouraged.
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