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Imogen CrispeUpdated on January 28, 2019Burnt out from teaching high school math and science for four years, Joanne Jordan decided to search for a new career direction. After discovering the potential of Machine Learning at a startup, she enrolled in Lambda School’s online Data Science Track. Joanne tells us how the vibrant online community kept her motivated to keep st...Continue Reading →- Imogen CrispeUpdated on January 24, 2019With classes spread between Salt Lake City and Provo, the DevMountain team has decided to bring all its Utah operations under one roof in centrally-located Lehi. We sat down with DevMountain Executive Director Krissy Weekley to hear h...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 22, 2019Logan Weir believes in continually learning to grow and improve his skills. After five years at a startup, he felt like a jack-of-all-trades and decided to hone his skills in data science withContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on January 16, 2019When the demands of lengthy concert tours kept Audio Engineer Tre Ammatuna from his wife and three young kids, he wanted to find a career that allowed him to be closer to home. He had dabbled in web design, so decided to enroll in Hack Reactor Remote and study from home in Athens, Georgia, rather than commute to another city. Tr...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 21, 2020After working for a religious nonprofit after college, Isaiah Ascher wanted to get into tech. He started learning to code, then a friend helped him get a customer services and sales job at an insurance company, where he thrived. But Isaiah wanted to go a step further and get into software sales, so he enrolled in preHIRED’s SaaS sa...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on February 8, 2021With a degree in creative fiction and plans to write a book, Erica didn’t expect to fall in love with coding as a career. But once she started learning JavaScript, she enrolled at Lighthouse Labs to learn full stack web development in Vancouver, Canada. Now, three years after graduating, Eric...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on January 4, 2019Bhaumik Patel is the Program Director for Thinkful’s new Nights & Weekends web development course, a live classroom experience delivered online. The course mirrors the instructor-led classroom schedule of the full-time Engineering Immersion course but ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on January 3, 2019When Roniece first signed up for Flatiron School’s Access Labs bootcamp, she wasn’t sure there was space in the coding and development world for a queer woman of color like herself. Now, she’s paying it forward in Atlanta as a Teaching Fellow at the newestContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 27, 2018As we near the end of 2018, we're rewinding and reflecting on the most interesting and impactful coding bootcamp news of the year. Come with us as we look at trends, digest thought pieces, break down the ~$175 million in new funding, and more. We’ll also look at our predictions for 2019 and our hopes for the future of coding bootcamps! 2018: Course Report in Numbers We added 89 new scho...Continue Reading →
- Nikki CarterUpdated on April 7, 2021As the new year approaches, you might be thinking about the big things you want to accomplish next year – namely, getting accepted to and completing a coding bootcamp. Although it’s tempting to spend the holiday period relaxing and indulging, there are a number of low-stress things you can s...Continue Reading →
- Brandi ButlerUpdated on October 2, 2024Should you learn Python? Many people choose their coding bootcamp based on what coding language they want to learn. Python is becoming an increasingly popular teaching language at both coding bootcamps and data science bootcamps, so we asked General Assembly Python Instructor Brandi Butler to explain the t...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 14, 2018As he was finishing his degree in Biotechnology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, Nadim realized he wanted a more technical career. He tried sales, then heard that BrainStation was launching a Data Science Diploma Program in Toronto. As an internationa...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 4, 2019With the aim of making education as accessible as possible, Holberton School has offered income share agreements for students since it launched in 2016. We wanted to find out exactly how the ISA works, and whether it is a good deal for ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 12, 2018Since Jenny Chan graduated from Lighthouse Labs in 2015, the lack of women in tech has become increasingly apparent to her. Her first developer job was at a company where women only held 10% of technical roles. Now Jenny is a freelance developer, and runs a Women in Web Development group where women support each ot...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 4, 2019Lambda School offers an income share agreement where students pay nothing up front, and don’t pay until they land a job. It sounds almost too good to be true, so we sat down withContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 10, 2018Impressed with a new hire who had graduated from Hackbright Academy, VP of Engineering at Sharethrough, Rob Slifka, was inspired to get involved with the all-women’s bootcamp. Three years later, Rob continues to mentor students and guest lectures about how new engineers can find jobs th...Continue Reading →
- Beth D'AmatoUpdated on December 7, 2018So you’ve been seeing jQuery as you research coding bootcamp curricula – but what is jQuery? It’s a JavaScript library that has been widely used for more than 10 years, but there is some debate around whether or not it’s worth using in 2018, since modern web browsers can now perform some of the same functions.Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on December 7, 2018Over 900 tech bootcamp graduates entered our sweepstakes competition to win a $500 Amazon Giftcard just by leaving a Verified review for their school on Course Report. This time, our lucky winner was Byron Chang from Epicodus! We caught up with Byron to find out what he's up to today. Want to be our n...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on December 5, 2018As The Tech Academy prepares to open a new campus in Austin, Texas, we sat down founders Jack & Erik to get the specifics. Read on to learn about the blended online coding bootcamp, why they’re excited to teach students in Austin, what companies are hiring developers in Austin, and what will stand out about the Austin <...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 4, 2018After teaching data science for two years, Thinkful is adding a flexible, online Data Analytics Program. We asked Thinkful’s Data Science Program Director, Matt Shull, about the differences between data analytics and data scien...Continue Reading →
