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Liz EgglestonUpdated on April 16, 2020Haythem Balti, the Director of Curriculum at Software Guild, says that his job as an educator is to “see the horizon of enterprise, to be aware of needs that are going to arise, and to introduce those concepts to students at the right time.” S...Continue Reading →- Liz EgglestonUpdated on October 21, 2020As Army Veteran Brady Keegan returned to civilian life, he met another veteran who showed him the path to Software Development. Now he’s attending Sabio and learning .NET while building a real full-stack portal fo...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on October 20, 2021Kris and Cassie both broke into tech with Thinkful, but their paths were different and they each learned lessons along the way. Kris attended Thinkful’s full-time Engineering program, while Cassie attended Thinkful’sContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 6, 2019John Holman was a Project Manager with a limited career path and a second child on the way when he decided to make a career change with LearningFuze. One year after graduating from theContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 5, 2019Codesmith has campuses in Los Angeles and New York City and is known for having strict admissions standards – but that selectivity also means graduates land mid-level and senior-level entry jobs. So how do they prepare their students for a senior developer interview? Shanda McCune, Director of Admiss...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 27, 2025Dataquest and Datacamp are both self-paced data science classes that run on monthly or yearly subscriptions and are delivered entirely on an online platform. Both schools offer multiple career tracks which include portfolio projects and a focus on eitherContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 3, 2019November was full of news about fundraises (and layoffs) and updates on past acquisitions like Trilogy and Thinkful. We’re also covering news about credentialing in bootcamps, a partnership between Wyncode and General Assembly, advice for data science bootcamp graduates about what to study after graduation, and 3 new bootcamps in Spain. And congrats to CodeClan –Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 27, 2019Günther von Häfen’s itch to learn something new started while he was working as a lawyer in Germany. He began dabbling in web development courses online and loved it so much that he decided to make a career change and enrolled in aContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 25, 2019When mechanical engineer Celia Song launched a startup, she had to teach herself to code to build it's website. That experience kickstarted her career change and Celia found all-women bootcampContinue Reading →
- Jess FeldmanUpdated on April 30, 2025How does a website get its style? CSS, of course! But what exactly is CSS and how will you use it as a developer? Tech experts Joseph Mecham (Web Development Program Director at Devmountain) and Rob Merrill (Software Engineering Instructor at LearningFuze) explain in fun, beginner-friendly terms what CSS is, how it’s used by software developers, and how it works with other programming languag...Continue Reading →
- Kim DesmondUpdated on April 16, 2020When learning to code – or considering learning to code – it’s wise to look at software engineering job descriptions to see what type of jobs interest you, and the skills you need to acquire to qualify for those jobs. However, job descriptions can sometimes be scary. Even some entry-level developer po...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 14, 2024Jamil Al-Ghosein worked on his final project for startup Pandia Health with a team of other UX Design students atContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 15, 2019After a 10-year career in journalism, Jack Maddox wanted to explore other job possibilities and become a tech entrepreneur. After working on one semi-successful idea with a developer, Jack decided to go to DigitalCrafts coding bootcamp in Atlanta to learn the skills to build his next idea. Jack walks us through his capstone pr...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 15, 2019After working as a tech entrepreneur in Montreal for 15 years, Dominic Tremblay wanted to get back into coding. He used Lighthouse Labs’ coding bootcamp to update his skills, and in the process realized he wanted...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 13, 2019Microbiology and MBA grad JK started to learn about big data and machine learning in his job, but wanted to learn more about data science in a structured environment. He enrolled in Springboard’s Machine Learning Career Track to learn about ML and AI online. J...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 8, 2021Dallas Kwok is a full-time Product Designer at Ritual and teaches UX design at BrainStation’s Part-Time UX Design Bootcamp. We caught up with Dallas to find out ho...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 11, 2019Caitlyn Greffly was feeling burnt out in her job in beer sales. Her favorite aspect of the job – data analysis – lead her to coding bootcamps. She embarked on a career change with Thinkful’s part-time onlineContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 11, 2019Holberton School’s new Tulsa campus launches in January 2020 in Tulsa’s downtown Arts District. Libby Wuller, the Campus Director at Holberton School’sContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 8, 2021In learning data science, you’ll soon discover that your skillset doesn’t end with Python – there are a number of other tools you’ll need to grasp. One of those is Pandas, a Python library which facilitates data processing. We asked Joe Eddy, Senior Data Scientist atContinue Reading →
- Alicia BoddyUpdated on January 11, 2025What Is VET TEC? VET TEC is an innovative VA education benefit that allows veterans to attend a coding bootcamp for free, includes remote training, and pays a monthly housing stipend to students. VET TEC stands for Veteran Employment Through Technology Education Courses. And VET TEC is all about jobs – the VA specif...Continue Reading →
