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Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 14, 2018Thinkful and Bloc are both online programming schools that employ mentors to propel their students to success. Both schools offer full-time and part-time bootcamps that take students from beginner to job-re...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 12, 2018Dave Hoover has been involved in the creation and development of several programming bootcamps since 2011 and is the co-author of Apprenticeship Patterns. His involvement in the bootcamp space has helped solidify the industry and he continues to contribute to it's success. In this interview, Dave talks about appr...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 27, 2024Jeff Casimir is a well-known name in the bootcamp world; he worked with LivingSocial in 2012 to start the Hungry Academy, then went on to partner with Galvanize to create gSchool, and he's continuing the evolution with Turing School, a 7-month coding school in Denver, Colorado. Jeff shares his thoughtful phi...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 12, 2014New York Code & Design Academy offers part time and full time courses to help students build their digital set. Jeremy Snepar, founder of NYCDA, talks with us about the intensive workshops in web, mobile app, and UI/UX design, what they're looking for in applicants, and how they help graduates find jobs in...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 12, 2014Harsh Patel began the first MakerSquare cohort in June of 2013 with three friends who wanted to create a programming school with an emphasis on great teachers and a project-based curriculum in Austin. With his Teach For America experience and background in startups, Harsh has an intentional approach to coding education, and it shows when he descri...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 8, 2014In our webinar with Startup Institute, CEO Aaron O'Hearn walked us through the curriculum and different tracks, Kailey talked about tips to get a job at a startup, and a recent graduate, Jerome, shared his own story! As promised, you can watch and share the whole webinar on demand by following this link. Switching your career path...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 6, 2014Omari Wallace attended Fullstack Academy in 2014, and he told us about what convinced him to join the Fullstack program, how he pushed through tough times, and what he created for his final project (hint: think Tinder for Cheap Eats). What were you up to before deciding to go to Fullstack? I worked as a proje...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 5, 2014I recently completed the 12-week Web Development program at The Flatiron School, an NYC-based school specializing in Ruby and iOS. The experience was a valuable one -- having begun the program with some experience (from college) but never having written any real software, I found myself developing and deploying full-o...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 5, 2014Jason Sewell is a Cofounder of Dev League, a coding bootcamp based in Honolulu, Hawaii. With personal experience running a bootcamp in a small tech market, Jason has great insight into the challenges and strengths in the industry. He and other bootcamp owners prove that students don't have to move to San Francisco or New York to...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 1, 2014Matthew Maxwell is a new mentor in the Front End Web Development Apprenticeship at Bloc. His mentor profile picture jumped off the page, and we knew we had to find out more about this animated mentor! We talked to Matthew about his "hawkward" pic, how he got involved with B...Continue Reading →
