The Week Is The Curriculum
A curriculum has a half-life. The tools change inside a year, the market moves twice as often, and a syllabus written 18 months ago describes a market that no longer exists.
So the programme does not run on one. It runs on weeks that are rebuilt as they go, and the assessment is the output rather than a grade.
What the week is made of
Every participant sits inside an operating team with a client, a deadline and a budget. That is the whole structure. There are no exams, no textbooks and no modules to complete, because none of those things produce the evidence the next employer is actually reading for.
The signal that a week worked is narrow and public. Something that previously did not exist can now be opened, used or measured, and the person can explain how it was built without notes.
That is a different bar from finishing a course, and it is the reason the material has to be rebuilt continuously rather than refreshed annually. If the tooling shifted, the week shifts with it.
Why the first pass is 2 minutes
Selection is not the interesting filter. A reader spends between 2 and 4 minutes on a first pass, and 3 to 5 artefacts with a working link and a date move the file forward. Everything after that is a second read earned by the first.
That arithmetic does not change once someone is inside a programme. It moves to the work itself. A week of output that needs a paragraph of explanation before it makes sense is a week that will not be seen.
So the operating rule is the same for a portfolio as for a project: leave behind something that runs, and write down the 1 sentence that says what it is.
The order of work
The mistake that costs the most time is doing the application before the build. A file that describes what will be done asks the reader to imagine a future. A file that shows what already runs asks them to check a link.
That order is portable. It is also why the entry filter and the daily work look identical from the outside: both reward the smallest possible gap between deciding something and shipping it.
Roughly 12 people get in out of around 25,000 expressions of interest in a year. The denominator is fixed. The only part of that sentence an applicant controls is whether the thing they send can be opened in a browser.