Coaching A Young Team Creating a Startup (And Helping Them Get Accepted at Le Camping)

A developer shares his experience coaching three engineering students with no coding background to build a functional app prototype. The team wanted to learn development themselves rather than outsource it, and after a few months of weekly mentoring sessions covering tech stack setup, REST API, and a Phonegap mobile app, they were accepted into Le Camping, a prestigious Parisian startup accelerator, out of 330 candidates. The author reflects on the value of founders learning to code even at a basic level.