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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 →
- The Springboard TeamUpdated on March 8, 2021What do Machine Learning Engineers do and how are their jobs different from Software Engineers and Data Scientists? Chirag Mahapatra, a Springboard Mentor and Machine Learning Engineer at Airbnb explainsContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 30, 2018When Susanna first moved to the US from Finland, she started teaching herself to code while waiting for her green card. When she wasn’t advancing as fast as she wanted to, Susanna decided to enroll atContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 30, 2018In the last week at Codesmith, students take part in Hiring Day, where employers visit the campus looking to hire new software engineers. Students interview with employers and show off their final projects. We visited Codesmith’s New York City campus a...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 29, 2018This November has been super busy in the immersive coding education world, and at Course Report! We read about how Amazon’s new headquarters will impact the coding bootcamps in New York City, we celebrated successful coding bootcamp grads, we were sad to hear that a school is closing, we heard advice for being successful at bootcamp, and found out about new initiatives to improve diversity ...Continue Reading →
- Matthew ShortUpdated on December 7, 2018Different coding bootcamps teach different languages and stacks, and it can be hard to keep track of all the technology options. One technology you might have heard of in relation to full-stack JavaScript curricula, is Express (also known as Express JS or Express.JS). In this guest post, Matthew Short, an Instructor and Head of...Continue Reading →
- David WhitakerUpdated on February 3, 2020You may have heard of Git and GitHub as essential tools for software developers, but do you know what they are, and why they exist? We asked Turing School Front-End Instructor David Whitaker to tell us why Git and GitHub are important for develope...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 27, 2018Matthew had 10 years of work experience, but when he moved from Chicago to Pittsburgh, he noticed a gap in his skills. There were tons of tech jobs that he was unqualified for, so when he heard that coding bootcamp Tech Elevator was opening a campus in Pittsburgh, he enrolled in the first cohort. Matthew tells us about buildin...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on November 26, 2018Justin worked in graphic design and art direction for more than 10 years before wanting to digitize his skill set. He’d never heard of UX design, but when he started researching, he realized it ticked all of his boxes. Justin enrolled in DevMountain’s full-time UX Design Bootcamp in Salt Lake City, and designed a fascinating ap...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on November 14, 2018Greg was a Collegiate Athletics Director of Operations for the Track & Field program for 6 years before realizing he wanted a new intellectual challenge. He was interested in software development, but felt he needed to learn for longer than 12 weeks. So Greg moved from North Carolina to San Francisco to attendContinue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 13, 2018After offering an online coding bootcamp for several years, The Software Guild is launchingContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on October 21, 2020The University of California (UC) network is vast and well-established from Sacramento to San Diego, so it was only a matter of time before these schools offered coding bootcamps of their own. But which UC bootcamp is best for you? At the time of publication, all UC coding bootcamps are offered in collaboration with Trilogy Education. Because they’re powered by the same platform and network...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 8, 2018Mariya graduated from the Grace Hopper Program in mid-2016, and has been working as a Software Engineer at Crisis Text Line for more than two years. WeContinue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on November 15, 2018Josh Pearson served in the US Army for 5 years in operations management and as a helicopter pilot. When he was ready to transition into a civilian career, he chose to combine his project management background with a new set of coding skills from GeneralContinue Reading →
