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Module 1 + Module 2 = AI-Ready Product Engineer

Module 1 / 6 months / certificate

2500 €

or 300 € a month

Changing careers? Career support services can cover up to 2500 € of retraining that lasts up to 6 months. That’s exactly Module 1.

Who it suits
  • You’re curious about tech and want to build real products, even if you’re starting from zero.
  • You solve problems on your own and take ownership of your work.
  • Not for you if you want step-by-step guidance and easy answers.

What you learn
  • Selection Sprint, 3 weeks and free: you set up your coding environment, write your first programs in Java, solve team tasks and learn to find answers yourself
  • T1–T4: code that works, apps that remember, systems that talk to yours, services people rely on
  • Go or Java, a server-side framework, SQL and PostgreSQL, Git, Docker and CI pipelines
  • AI as a tutor, then a coding assistant, then a teammate you delegate to
  • A certificate, with the option to continue into the full programme

Roles you can work in
  • Junior backend developer
  • Technical roles in startups and small teams
  • QA, test automation or technical support

Read alumni stories

How to pay
  1. 300 € a month, carrying on after the 6 months until it’s paid, or up front.
  2. Your employer pays, up front or in instalments.
  3. You get reimbursed for your retraining.
Take the test See the curriculum

Module 1 + Module 2 / 15 months / diploma

4500 €

or 300 € a month

Bolt scholarship for women. Bolt covers the full tuition for one woman in every batch.

Who it suits
  • You’re curious about tech and want to build real products, even if you’re starting from zero.
  • You keep going, take ownership of your work and cope when there’s no single right answer.
  • Not for you if you want step-by-step guidance and easy answers.

What you learn
  • Selection Sprint, 3 weeks and free: you set up your coding environment, write your first programs in Java, solve team tasks and learn to find answers yourself
  • T1–T4: code that works, apps that remember, systems that talk to yours, services people rely on
  • T5–T7: products people use, systems with real stakes, AI that is useful
  • TypeScript, Node.js and a frontend framework, then services, queues and payments
  • Product thinking: what to build, for whom, and whether it worked
  • AI inside your own product: retrieval, embeddings and function calling
  • A diploma as an AI-Ready Product Engineer

Roles you can work in

Tap a role to read an alumni story. All alumni stories

How to pay
  1. Pay flexibly in instalments of 300 € a month, or up front.
  2. Pay after your studies with the Study Income Sharing Agreement (ISA). How it works
  3. Your employer pays, up front or in instalments.
  4. If you land a job at a //kood partner company, it covers the cost.
Take the test See the curriculum

Who can apply: anyone 18 or older with basic education and English at B2 level. No coding experience needed, and the studies are in English. Applying is free: the logic game, the info session and the Selection Sprint cost nothing. You only pay if you’re selected and start studying.

How studying works: studies start in March 2027, full-time, roughly 30–40 hours a week, at your own pace. The two Sprint weeks are on site; after that you study at a learning centre open 24/7, from home, or both.

Want to see what you learn, topic by topic? Curriculum 2.0 shows what you build at each step and why. See the curriculum

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Want a degree, or something shorter?

//kood works with Estonian Business School and TalTech. If you’d like to try coding first, or you already code, there are short courses.

Estonian Business School

//kood x EBS bachelor’s

3 years / 180 ECTS / full-time, in English

“Product and Technology Management” is a programme created together with Estonian Business School that combines IT and business skills. You learn how ideas become working products and digital services, and how to bring them to market and keep developing them.

4050 € a semester

You apply through EBS.

See it on the EBS site //kood x Degree
TalTech

Special admission to TalTech

For //kood’s best graduates

//kood’s best graduates can apply to TalTech’s School of Information Technologies under special conditions. Every year that’s

  • the 10 best graduates from kood/Jõhvi
  • the 6 best graduates from kood/Järva
  • the 6 best graduates from kood/Võru

The offer is valid for up to 3 years after you graduate from //kood.

Read more at TalTech
Smiling women at a laptop at the kood/Empower coding bootcamp

Short courses

If you want something shorter

  • kood/Empower

    A 4-day coding bootcamp for women taking their first steps in programming. No experience needed. The next one is in February 2027, and graduates can skip the online test and go straight to the Selection Sprint.

  • kood/Expert

    3–6 month modules for people who already code: DevOps, Embedded, Advanced Full-Stack and Generative AI, 1500–2400 €.

  • Not 18 yet?

    kood/FutureCoders brings award-winning programming courses to upper secondary schools: Python, web development and data analysis. Ask if your school has joined.

All short courses

You learn peer to peer. No teachers, no lectures.

You work in teams of two to four. Each project brief says what to build, under what limits and how it’s judged, and how you build it is up to you.

Stuck? You’re not on your own.

  • Your teamYou build every project with one to three others and work through problems together.
  • A student mentorIn your first five weeks, a student from an earlier batch meets your small group every week.
  • The whole schoolAsk in the study forum on //kood’s Discord, where learners from every batch and learning centre help each other.
  • AI as a tutorIt explains error messages and docs. You check what it tells you.
  • The //kood teamA community manager at every learning centre, a study coordinator for deadlines and study questions, and a tech team for platform problems. Reach them on Discord or by email.

Each topic builds on the one before. You keep going deeper into what you know and wider into what needs it.

Study where it suits you. At kood/Jõhvi, kood/Võru or kood/Järva in Paide with your own 24-hour door card, from home, or both.

Saba Gul, Product Engineer on the //kood learning platform team
Saba GulProduct Engineer, learning platform

Our own learning platform

The platform team has built the platform you study on since 2023. It checks your exercises automatically, tracks your progress like a game and opens new modules as you go deeper.

Questions about money

How does the Income Sharing Agreement (ISA) work?

The ISA is one way to pay for the AI-Ready Product Engineer programme. It comes into effect once you have a job and your monthly gross salary is above the Estonian average. Then you pay at least 200 € a month until 4500 € is paid.

It’s possible because //kood’s partners cover part of the study costs.

What if I don’t find a job?

Then you don’t pay anything under the agreement. Every six months you send a salary statement that shows it. The agreement is valid for 10 years, and during that time your job and income are checked from time to time.

What if a //kood partner company hires me?

Then the ISA doesn’t apply, because the partner company covers your study costs. The list of partner companies is confirmed when you sign the study agreement.

Can I pay for Module 1 after my studies?

The ISA doesn’t apply to Module 1. You pay 300 € a month, and the payments continue after the 6 months until 2500 € is paid. You can also pay it all up front or have your employer pay.

Can my employer pay for my studies?

Yes, up front or in instalments. Many employers use our programmes as part of their training plan, or pay for the full programme so an employee can grow inside the company. Ask your employer!

Is there support for changing careers?

Career support services can cover up to 2500 € of retraining that lasts up to 6 months. That’s exactly Module 1.

For women there’s the Bolt scholarship: Bolt covers the full tuition for one woman in every batch. Ask at an info session what’s possible for you.

I don’t have a laptop. What now?

Rent one from our partner GreenDice from 7.90 € a month. It’s delivered in one business day.

Does the tuition cover living costs?

No. Tuition doesn’t cover rent or food, and the programme is full-time. Work out how you’ll cover your living costs while you study, and bring your questions to an info session.

Why //kood and not a bootcamp or a university?

Compared with a bootcamp, the programme goes deeper and lasts longer. Bootcamps mostly teach you to follow a set pattern. At //kood you learn to think like an engineer: you solve problems and understand why and how things get built. Project-based, peer-to-peer learning gets you used to working the way real tech teams do.

Compared with a university degree, it’s more practical and up to date. You build the same kind of solutions that get built at work, to the standards companies use today. The curriculum changes with the tech market, because the field moves faster than traditional academic programmes can adapt. Want a degree too? See how to continue at a university after //kood.

More answers are on the FAQ page.

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Start with a 30-minute game

It’s free and has no code in it. It shows how you think, and you see your result straight away. Then come to an info session and the Selection Sprint.

Take the test How to apply

In short

Module 1
2500 € / 6 months
Full programme
4500 € / 15 months
Pay
300 € a month, up front, with the ISA or through your employer
Next Sprint
18.01–5.02.2027, apply by 12.01.2027