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Become a Software Engineer by Working on Real Products

TakeGeeks is a Software Engineering Apprenticeship where students learn by building real products, collaborating with teams, and following professional engineering workflows.

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feature/auth-flow
// PR #142 · auth-flow.ts
export function verifySession(token: string) {
const user = decode(token);
+ if (!user?.active) throw new AuthError();
- return user;
+ return { ...user, verifiedAt: Date.now() };
}
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Free Engineering Trial
5 Months
Apprenticeship
Real Software
Not toy projects
Open Source
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Why TakeGeeks?

Coding is the easy part. We teach the rest.

Traditional education teaches students how to code. TakeGeeks teaches students how software is actually built.

Students work in teams, contribute to real products, use Git & GitHub, participate in code reviews, follow Agile sprints, and gain practical engineering experience under mentor guidance.

What you’ll experience

Version Control

Learn real version control the way engineering teams actually use it.

Agile Sprints

Daily standups, sprint planning, and team collaboration, every week.

Production Development

Build the TakeGeeks Workspace, a living product, not a sandbox exercise.

Code Reviews

Review code and receive feedback like a professional engineer.

Pull Requests

Create, discuss, and merge real Pull Requests into a shared codebase.

Open Source

Become an Open Source Contributor the moment your PR gets merged.

The engineering workflow

Every feature ships the same way it does at a real company

Sprint Planning

Understand the task

Pick Issue

Choose your ticket

Create Branch

Start a feature branch

Develop

Build the feature

Commit

Write clean commits

Pull Request

Open your PR

Code Review

Receive feedback

Merge

Merge into main

Deploy

Release to production

Free 10-day engineering trial

What you’ll do

Day 1

Engineering Mindset & Team Onboarding

Day 2

Git Fundamentals

Day 3

GitHub & Team Collaboration

Day 4

Understanding the Existing Codebase

Day 5

Project Setup, Architecture & Low-Level Design

Day 6

Sprint Planning & Task Breakdown

Day 7

Build Your First Feature

Day 8

Testing, Debugging & Pull Requests

Day 9

Code Reviews & Improvements

Day 10

Feature Demo & Sprint Review

Why students join

Learn by Building

Not watching videos. You ship code from day one.

Real Engineering Experience

Follow the exact workflow professional teams use.

Team Collaboration

Work inside a team, like a real software company.

Portfolio Building

Walk away with real GitHub contributions to show for it.

Even if you don’t continue

The 10-day trial is designed to provide value on its own. You’ll leave with:

  • Git experience
  • GitHub experience
  • Pull Requests
  • Code Reviews
  • Real project contribution
  • Opportunity to become an Open Source Contributor
How it works

From application to apprentice

01

Apply

Submit your application for Batch 1.

02

Get Selected

We review applications and select candidates.

03

Join Free Trial

Start the 10-day free engineering trial.

04

Contribute

Ship a real Pull Request into a live project.

05

Continue Apprenticeship

Move into the full 5-month program.

Only 15

students for Batch 1

Limited batch size ensures every student receives personalized mentorship from our engineering team.

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FAQ

Questions, answered

Yes. The entire 10-day engineering trial is completely free, with no obligation to continue into the full apprenticeship afterward.

No prior professional experience is required. You should be comfortable with the basics of programming; we teach the engineering workflow, tools, and mindset from scratch.

Yes. From the trial onward, you contribute to real, live products like the TakeGeeks Workspace, using the same Git, GitHub, and code review process professional teams use.

Students who complete the trial and demonstrate strong engagement are invited to continue into the full 5-month apprenticeship program.

Batch 1 is limited to 15 students, so every apprentice gets direct, personalized mentorship from our engineering mentors.