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Lauren StewartUpdated on December 14, 2017New wave technology school, BrainStation launched a new full-time Remote Web Development Course in 2017 as part of a goal to empower one million people with digital skills by 2025. BrainStation Educator and professional software developer Jami...Continue Reading →- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 12, 2017Gladia Castro enjoyed working as a program director with the YMCA in San Francisco, but after 10 years, she couldn’t see herself working at nonprofits for her whole life. When she saw General Assembly’s User Experience Design...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on December 11, 2017Nikki Pandya was in a 3-year software developer rotation program at Liberty Mutual but wanted to add design skills to her toolbox. She chose to learn those design skills at Startup Institute’s Part-Time UX Design course ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 7, 2017Most coding bootcamp graduates boast new salaries that blow their past careers out of the water. But for some, it’s less about money and more about quality of life. For Mike Smith, who spent years unfulfilled as a London banker, a career change meant finding a job he wanted to spend his time doing, and programming was the answer. He moved to Berlin for its lifestyle, learned to code at...Continue Reading →
- Gabriel LebecUpdated on March 12, 2019JavaScript is the most popular language on the web, and is the curriculum focus at Fullstack Academy – but it wasn’t always that w...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on October 21, 2020Global Tech School Ironhack is launching a new campus in Mexico City on January 15, 2018. We spoke with Ironhack’s VP of Operations & Expansion, Alexandre Berriche, to learn about the Mexico City tech ecosystem and why there is a growing deman...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on December 1, 2017On the Course Report Coding Bootcamp News Roundup, we keep you up to date with the blossoming coding bootcamp industry. This November, we're covering the WeWork/Flatiron School acquisition, over $2M in funding to various bootcamps, and why tech is booming in "Heartland" cities. Of course we also look at new schools, new campuses, and our favorite pieces to work on this month for the Course ...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on October 8, 2019In addition to teaching a full immersive coding bootcamp, Southern California coding school LearningFuze also runs short part-time courses covering HTML, CSS and JavaScript and now have a class called React 101. In the class,Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 29, 2017Daniel King was a Physics teacher for six years when he started attending Codesmith’s JavaScript: The Hard Parts workshops, and he was hooked. Since graduating fromContinue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 27, 2017Insiten is a small financial tech shop in Atlanta, but they’ve integrated innovative hiring, training and upskilling practices that a lot of large companies have yet to adopt. So far, CEO Adam Trien has hired 8 software engineers from Atlanta-based DigitalCrafts and is even funding one of his current employees to upskill at th...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on November 21, 2017Jamie Fradkin has worked at BuzzFeed as a data scientist for over a year and a half after attending Metis data science bootcamp in New York City. As a former biomedical engineer, she wanted to switch careers so that she could make use of her math and statistics skills in a booming new industry. Learn about theContinue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on November 21, 2017Emily Maskin has hired three Grace Hopper Program graduates for contact lens startup Simple Contacts. As the Engineering Manager for the web team, Emily took a chance on hiring her first bootcamp graduates (all women)...Continue Reading →
- Lauren StewartUpdated on November 20, 2017Pedro Acosta was a security guard training with the NYPD when he realized a career in software development would allow him to really excel and stimulate his mind like never before. Pedro quit the NYPD training and chose to learn part-time with Flatiron School’s Online Web Developer Program so that he could continue working f...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on April 30, 2019Allstate Product Design Manager, Dustin Hamilton, started mentoring Designation (now Flatiron School) UX and UI students, and soon realized that many of them would be great additions to his team. He has now hired six Designation graduates, and continues to mentor a...Continue Reading →
- David WintrichUpdated on October 14, 2024What are the benefits of learning Java as your first programming language? Is Java just too hard to learn in 14 weeks? When starting out in tech and choosing a coding bootcamp, it’s difficult to know which language to focus on.Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on July 24, 2018With the speed that tech evolves, coding bootcamps need to constantly iterate to keep their curriculum relevant for students. New York Code + Design Academy is working on a big revamp to their c...Continue Reading →
- Imogen CrispeUpdated on November 13, 2017As Philip Percesepe was transitioning out of the Marine Corps he came up with an exciting tech startup idea. He realized he needed more specialized technical skills to build the idea, so he used the GI Bill to enroll at Sabio coding bootcamp in Los Angeles. Since he graduated in February 2017, Philip has continued to work on his start...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on May 20, 2021One of the first questions we hear when someone starts researching coding bootcamps is “which programming language should I learn?” You hear these terms floating around like full stack vs front end vs back end – but what should you make of them? Today we’re diving into everything that goes into the application “stack” – from how each piece works together to the skills and tools you need to...Continue Reading →
- Liz EgglestonUpdated on November 9, 2017One of the challenges that bootcamps face and have really taken head-on is building diverse classrooms. If you’ve looked at demographics research, you know that tech is not diverse – and that means everything from a lack of racial to gender to cognitive diversity. But a lot of bootcamps are doing interesting things in this realm, around scholarships, community outreach, and partnerships wit...Continue Reading →
