HackBright Academy is legit. One of my friends is the Director of Operations there and she is a bright professional programmer who is passionate about teaching women--she is also mostly self taught and was a teenaged mother! really cool stuff. Many of the students finish the programming are getting some incredible offers from tech companies--really cool salaries.

Anyway:

http://www.hackbrightacademy.com/moms_in_tech


Candidates should be:
* a mother

Hackbright Academy

Hackbright Academy is an accelerated Computer Science and Software Development school exclusively for women. The Hackbright Academy Programming Fellowship is a training program designed to help women become awesome programmers. We teach the fundamentals of modern web development, then introduce our students to Silicon Valley companies looking to expand their engineering teams.

Goals

• Our goals at Hackbright Academy are to be the best place to become a software engineer and to help more women become software engineers. That’s why Hackbright Academy is exclusively for women. It’s been quite the journey so far! We’ve helped over 50 women break into the industry with confidence, relationships, and skills that will last a lifetime. We’ve worked with many great companies over the past year, and most recently, we’ve begun working with Facebook.


• Facebook also cares deeply about helping more women succeed as software engineers. Today, we’re excited to announce a special sponsorship with Facebook for women who have taken a career break from tech — the Moms in Tech Sponsorship.


• There are many women who have started successful careers in tech who choose to put their career on hold to dedicate more time to their children and families. When these women think about returning to work, we want to help them lean back in to their careers with the most up-to-date skill set and technical abilities. The Facebook Moms in Tech Sponsorship will cover the full $12,000 tuition to Hackbright where these women will be able to refresh their technical skills and learn entirely new ones so they’re well-equipped to rejoin the workforce.