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At the beginning of November, I started at Northcoders, a coding bootcamp based in Manchester.

Have you just finished working through the JavaScript track on Codecademy?

So I don’t know that much about coding...

The spread operator is awesome. It can do SO much — it’s efficient, readable, and can save a whole load of mess.

It's impossible to miss the headlines about the digital revolution, whether it's alarmist articles about robots replacing everyone’s jobs or statistics regarding the digital skills shortage across the UK, including Manchester, and what this means for the rapidly expanding tech industry.

When was the last time you used your legs and went to a record store to buy a physical album?

I’m a Mechanical Engineer. And for the best part of 8 years that’s how I identified myself. I thought that’s what I was always going to do. But then I started to open my eyes to all the exciting things that were happening around me; how technology was rapidly changing and all the opportunities that that created to completely reimagine the world around us. I wanted to be a part of it but knew I wasn’t in the right place for that.

We are overflowing with pride to see Cohort 6, our biggest cohort to date, graduate.

Ellen Talbot from R-Ladies Liverpool weighs in on the barriers facing women in tech. How can you get involved?