Your learning journey starts here
What you will learn:
Basic Programming skills - including HMTL, CSS and JavaScript.
How to build and deploy basic websites.
Generative AI: practice and advance your generative AI skills.
How to analyse and visualse data.
20-40 hours of study
Set your own learning pace to meet the Intro to Digital deadline of one calendar month.
No experience needed
The CYF Intro to Digital Course suits all levels and you can start on a mobile device.
Supported by experts
Tech professionals and CYF graduates will guide you to success on your journey.
Who can apply to CodeYourFuture?
CodeYourFuture exists to support disadvantaged groups into thriving tech careers. Disadvantage can take many forms, if your specific disadvantage is not mentioned below, please apply and we will review your suitability.
- Are you over 18 years old?
- Are you on low income?
- Are you looking to start a career in tech?
- Do you live within 90 minutes by public transport of:
- Sheffield, UK
- Glasgow, UK
- Manchester, UK
- Birmingham, UK
- Cape Town, ZA
- OR can you easily and regularly get to London, UK for a weekly Saturday class?
- Poverty
- Long term unemployment
- Disability
- Homelessness
- Refuge
- Asylum
- Forced migration
- Prison
- Single parenthood
- Social care
Next Intro to Digital course starts on June 1st
Important to note
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For the full schedule of our 2025 courses, including Intro to Digital, click here (Google Sheet).
- You have 28 days to complete Intro to Digital. If you can't complete all the steps while ITD is open, you can wait until it reopens and try again.
Meet CodeYourFuture graduates

Natalie
Natalie became a refugee because of war in her homeland. She found her previous qualifications didn't help her find a good job in a new country. After CYF, she was able to start a tech career.

Luan
Luan was working in a warehouse before CYF. He had to improve his English to graduate from CYF and get a job in tech. With support and hard work, he gained the confidence need to start his tech career.

Douglas
Before CYF, Douglas worked in as manual labourer in Cape Town. He dedicated himself to learning to code and with support from the CYF community, he graduated and started a career in tech.

Deniz
Deniz had never written a line of code before CYF. She struggled during the course but used all the support offered at CYF. After graduation, she got a job as a Scrum Master with our partner Capgemini.