Recurse Center

The Recurse Center is a self-directed, free educational retreat in New York for programmers who want to get better at their craft. There is no curriculum, no teachers, and no grades - people spend six or twelve weeks working on whatever they find most interesting, alone or in pairs, guided by a few light social rules. Founded in 2011 as Hacker School and renamed the Recurse Center in 2015, it is free for participants and funds itself by running a recruiting agency that connects its community with hiring companies.