Students at Hack Reactor are getting an orientation before beginning the 12 week course. People between the ages of 17 and 50 will spent at least 11 hours a day, six days a week, learning to write computer code, which is the basic language for all software.
Organizers say the intensity is what sets them apart from a 4 year college.
"In a very real way, when people graduate from a university, they can't build a website, but when they graduate from this, they can", said Anthony Phillips, CEO of Hack Reactor.
Student Emily Dong said, "It seems like Hack Reactor covers a lot of the modern tools you'd actually use on the job. And I don't really have four years to go back to school or the money to do that."
Tuition is more than $17,000. The program claims that 99 percent of the graduates will get job offers in just weeks after graduation.