The Piscine: The selection process to enter at 42.
You don’t have to know how to code to apply to the Piscine at 42. Whatever your starting level is, the idea is to test the candidates’ involvement capacity during the Piscine at 42. Rather than offering a straight computer initiation, the Piscine at 42 lets you start the curriculum with intensive training in C, the first language you have to use during the training course. For one month, the Piscine at 42 lets you tackle the teaching methods of the school: peer-to-peer learning, group work, peer-evaluation and project pedagogy.
A month dedicated to stepping into programming for good. A month dedicated to stepping into programming for good. Intensive learning, no clues, no routes, no traces. You just have the internet and your mates.
42 learning methods makes you facing up your frustration, breaks your need to understand what you are doing or where you are going. Makes you more patience, sociable and empathy with others.
The Piscine at 42 is the promise of a month that offers you new perspectives. At the beginning you'll want to quit, at the end you'll wish that last forever. Every day will teach you something, about life or about you.
Eagerly awaited as well as fearfully dreaded but always memorable:
the Piscine at 42 is a trial month that may change your entire life.
42’s Piscine exercises are grouped in modules. You will need one day, more or less, to complete one. These modules let you focus on one specific notion.
In addition to an automated evaluation, all the modules must be evaluated by other candidates in the Piscine at 42. This is an opportunity to discover other ways to program and discuss topics tackled in the exercise. Even if the assessor and the assessed are not at the same level, everyone can benefit from this experience.
During weekends, mandatory work groups let students collaborate on projects. The aim is to make you surpass yourself and find a unique solution to a given problem. Rushes are evaluated by the pedagogical staff or advanced students participating in educational activities. Advice given during the evaluations are precious and offers you thorough feedback about the way you code.
Once a week, a machine exam is proposed. You must solve increasingly difficult problems in a limited time in order to test your level and use what you’ve learned. You will not get any help here. This is an opportunity to observe your progression and achievement and go beyond. You will find solutions to problems you were absolutely clueless about days or weeks before.