Software for Climate

The course is eight weeks long and will be offered from June 25 to August 23, 2024. Live sessions will run on Tuesdays and Fridays from 9:00am – 10:30am PT, with a break the week of June 30 to July 6. Attendance is strongly encouraged, but recordings will also be made available.

Mid-career software engineers looking to make the transition into climate tech. Individuals who are concerned about climate change and ready to apply their careers to help solve it but aren’t sure where to start.

The course does not require professional software engineering experience, though a basic level of familiarity with code is required.

In this class, you will read, modify, and optionally extend existing Python code written in Hex interactive notebooks. The minimum bar to complete each assignment is to follow explicit instructions to update a few lines of code, with optional extensions for those coming in with more programming experience.

The final project is open-ended, with the expectation that you will build on your own unique past experience as well as what you have learned in the course.

Mid-career software engineers looking to make the transition into climate tech. Individuals who are concerned about climate change and ready to apply their careers to help solve it but aren’t sure where to start. Fellows with no prior programming experience have been able to complete the assignments and found the course overall to be valuable and instructive.

Several organizations have learning or professional development budgets for their employees. We encourage you to enquire about and utilize this budget to attend the course. Terra.do will help you get reimbursed for the course by providing an invoice, a certificate, and any other documentation you need. If you have your company’s approval, we can arrange for your company to pay directly.

We expect to run more cohorts given ongoing demand for this course.

We want this program to work for learners of all stripes, regardless of individual or organizational ability to pay. Please apply—we will make every effort to accommodate the circumstances of qualified students. If it helps, we can offer you an installment-based payment schedule where you pay the course fee in 3 parts.

You can defer your enrollment up until 14 days after the course starts.

If you’re unsatisfied for any reason after the first session, we’ll refund you 100%. We only request that you give us feedback so we can improve.

If you have a question about this course that isn’t covered in the FAQ, please email us at software-for-climate@terra.do.